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Thanks, yeah. We have started to look at that alternative endpoint, but it doesn't have the exact data as the api, nor is it always in the exact same format.

Although as I have run the migration myself several times to attempt to debug issues, it takes over 24hours due to ratelimiting.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the members of the technical oversight committee of the Gitea project, and am employed to work on Gitea.

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Create more GitHub Apps. If you're hitting rate limits you can double your capacity by adding a new app and using round robin to cycle through requests/tokens. If you're using a PAT, you only have 5k requests and will bottleneck quickly.

I.... uhh... can't say I tried that... as it's against the TOS... cough All joking aside, they have banned accounts from other projects attempting to do the same, so if I were to do that (and I'm not saying that I would), I'd want to make sure that the exporter is solid prior to risking any account.

It's not against the TOS, the documentation is very clear:

  "Keep these ideas in mind when creating GitHub Apps:

  - A user or organization can own up to 100 GitHub Apps."

https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/getting-started-w...

Which is 1.5 million API requests per org per hour.

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