Wallet crashes after opening it more than 60 times in an hour

[LeeAlephium]

The wallet will crash if you open it more than 60 times in an hour 🙂

{"message":"API rate limit exceeded for 76.67.201.44. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)","documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#rate-limiting%22%7D

GitHub limits to 60 requests per hour for unauthenticated requests

Request in question: https://api.github.com/repos/alephium/desktop-wallet/releases/latest

You don't even have to open the wallet 60 times: visit that link more than 60 times and then open the wallet. Crash :D

for i in $(seq 61); do curl https://api.github.com/repos/alephium/desktop-wallet/releases/latest > /dev/null; sleep 1; done

Then open the wallet, should crash

(Until the next hour, where the limit will be reset :p )

[diomark]

Just tell it to ignore if it fails? it's just checking if it's running the latest version, right?

[LeeAlephium]

Yeah, that's the quick fix for sure

[LeeAlephium]

Instead of checking each startup, it'll check a property to determine if an hour has passed since the last check and if true then do the request, and continue to do so for each subsequent hour passed