Rate-limiting issue updates

[DenverCoder1]

You may be coming from seeing your stats card show a rate-limiting error.

We are working to fix this issue. Leave a comment below if you have any questions or suggestions.

For the time being, you can try avoiding this error by deploying Streak Stats on your own.

Deploying to Vercel is free and it only takes a few steps to set up.

Step-by-step instructions for deploying to Heroku

Heroku costs around $5-$7/month minimum for a single app.

1. Sign in to Heroku or create a new account at https://heroku.com
2. Visit this link to create a new Personal Access Token (no scopes required)
3. Scroll to the bottom and click "Generate token"
4. Click the Deploy button below

5. Add the token as a Config Var with the key TOKEN:

6. Click "Deploy App" at the end of the form
7. Once the app is deployed, you can use <your-app-name>.herokuapp.com in place of streak-stats.demolab.com

Instructions for Deploying to Vercel (Free)

Vercel is a free hosting service that can be used to run PHP. Note: PNG mode is not supported since Inkscape will not be installed.

Step-by-step instructions for deploying to Vercel

1. Sign in to Vercel or create a new account at https://vercel.com
2. Clone this repository with git clone https://github.com/DenverCoder1/github-readme-streak-stats.git
   • You may also fork the repository (make sure to include all branches) and clone your fork instead if you intend to make changes
3. Enter the directory with cd github-readme-streak-stats
4. Switch branches to the vercel branch with git checkout vercel
5. Make sure you have the Vercel CLI installed
6. Run vercel and follow the prompts to link your Vercel account and select a project name
7. The app will be deployed to <project-name>.vercel.app
8. Visit this link to create a new Personal Access Token (no scopes required)
9. Scroll to the bottom and click "Generate token"
10. Visit the Vercel dashboard and select your project, then click "Settings", then "Environment Variables".
11. Add a new variable with the key TOKEN and the value as your token from step 9 and click "Save".

Note
To set up automatic Vercel deployments from GitHub, make sure to turn off "Include source files outside of the Root Directory" in the General settings and use vercel as the production branch in the Git settings.

[DenverCoder1]

Requests have been updated to use GitHub's GraphQL API, so hopefully this should fix the issue.

Update: This allows us to have more requests per hour but it is still not sufficient to prevent rate limiting entirely.

[FleetAdmiralJakob]

Sorry, but self-hosting does not work right now on vercel. See #642 and #641