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Intermittent 5xx responses from the pulls API call #24673
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The API call to return a list of pull requests is returning 5xx status codes seemingly at random. The API status page reads green, so I wanted to see if anyone else is having this issue. I know at least one other GitHub user has hit this problem
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It looks like making authenticated API calls mitigates this issue entirely. EDIT: A new theory we had is that the Cataclysm-DDA repository is simply too large and has too many pull requests for the API to handle consistently. |
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I suspect what is happening here has to do with the rather large size of the Cataclysm DDA repo. It has over 33,000 closed pull requests, and going through a list of that size may be too much to handle for the servers tasked with handling unauthenticated GitHub API calls. |
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After a conversation with GitHub support, I have an answer. Because the repo is so large, unauthenticated requests are hitting a timeout cap because they take too long. The solution was to switch to the GitHub search API, searching for pull requests rather than listing pull requests directly. |
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I was thinking the same too, but I did not post at the very first place, because I might not be the appropriate one to answer, the API is still limited particularly when being accessed by unauthenticated, so if that is a mix and the repo is so large, the server will think it’s security vulnerability |
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After a conversation with GitHub support, I have an answer. Because the repo is so large, unauthenticated requests are hitting a timeout cap because they take too long. The solution was to switch to the GitHub search API, searching for pull requests rather than listing pull requests directly.