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Add support to cycle through multiple access tokens

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#15 opened on Nov 27, 2016

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Or maybe there's an alternative? But, if we can use tokens from multiple users, we can probably improve the time to wait.

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Research direction
Investigate how to rotate GitHub personal access tokens to avoid rate limiting. Look into the current authentication mechanism in the codebase and propose a way to support multiple tokens, possibly through environment variables or a config file.
Tech stack
python
Domain
security
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Mostly clear
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70