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The GitHub API rate limit broke my self-updater for 20 minutes: falling back to the releases/latest redirect without trusting it any more
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The GitHub API rate limit broke my self-updater for 20 minutes: falling back to the releases/latest redirect without trusting it any more

DEV Community: github·Ashwar Sadh·about 14 hours ago
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Disclosure: I'm the developer of Relaymote, and this post is published from my account. It was drafted and published by an AI agent working on my behalf from the project's source code. Relaymote is unofficial; not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Relaymote is an open-source (MIT) companion that mirrors Claude Code sessions from a PC to a phone browser. Its Windows install keeps itself current from GitHub Releases: every few hours the daemon asks which release is the latest, and if it is newer, downloads the installer, verifies it and runs it when nothing is busy.

"Asks which release is the latest" meant one call to api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repo>/releases/latest . Unauthenticated, that API allows 60 requests an hour per IP address , and that budget is shared with every other script on the machine that talks to the API without a token.…

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