git-updater: Getting hammered with continuous "API rate limit exceeded" 403 error

I realize no one else seems to be complaining about this so it must be something unique to me? Screenshot 2022-01-17 123039

This problem started for me a few months ago. They are all private repositories and I do have a “newly” generated personal access token. I reached out to GitHub support and this is the list they gave me for top URL’s of the last 24 hours:

url count percent https://api.github.com/repos/mystudioengine/the-events-calendar/contents/readme.txt?ref=%5BFILTERED%5D 42082 31.479653 https://api.github.com/repos/mystudioengine/event-tickets/contents/readme.txt?ref=%5BFILTERED%5D 42032 31.442250 https://api.github.com/repos/afragen/git-updater/contents/CHANGES.md?ref=%5BFILTERED%5D 13278 9.932675 https://api.github.com/repos/afragen/git-updater/contents/readme.txt?ref=%5BFILTERED%5D 13251 9.912478 https://api.github.com/repos/afragen/git-updater/tags 4006 2.996709 https://api.github.com/repos/mystudioengine/event-tickets/tags 2404 1.798324 https://api.github.com/repos/mystudioengine/the-events-calendar/tags 2328 1.741472 https://api.github.com/repos/afragen/the-events-calendar-category-colors/tags 1310 0.979952

When it is locked out I do get the following in query monitor: HTTP Console

Any ideas on what could be causing this?

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  • Created 2 years ago
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@chesio & @afragen thanks for the info. Actually the wp_config and the site health both say “utf8mb4” but when I check the database directly it shows the core tables as “utf8”.

I found a script that would upgrade the tables in place so we’ll see how that goes. Either way, thanks for the help. I’m glad this problem is solved.