How to overcome "API rate limit exceeded for installation" error?

[nicrie]

Thank you for this great bot! I'd really like to see it in action in this repository.

However, I was surprised to encounter two problems:

1. Although a new release was made, the Bot was not automatically triggered. I had to add a workflow dispatch to start it manually. What do I have to change in the configuration to make it run automatically after each new release?
2. When I ran it manually, I received the following error (click here to check the full output of the workflow):

[INFO] Regenerate releases: ['v2.1.2', 'v2.1.1', 'v2.1.0', 'v2.0.3', 'v2.0.2', 'v2.0.1', 'v2.0.0', 'v1.2.2', 'v1.2.1', 'v1.2.0', 'v1.1.0', 'v1.0.5', 'v1.0.4', 'v1.0.3', 'v1.0.2', 'v1.0.1', 'v1.0.0', 'v0.7.2', 'v0.7.1', 'v0.7.0', 'v0.6.0', 'v0.5.0', 'v0.4.0', 'v0.3.0', 'v0.2.0', 'v0.1.2', 'v0.1.1']
Error:  Failed to get release content, message: {'message': 'API rate limit exceeded for installation ID 18128119. If you reach out to GitHub Support for help, please include the request ID DC80:0E08:F85C03:20A6DCE:6558F8C5.', 'documentation_url': 'https://docs.github.com/rest/overview/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api'}
Error:  Failed to get release content, status code: 403

My guess is - since it isn't a new repo - that the Bot exceeds an internal GitHub API rate limit while trying to process all existing releases at once. I tried rerunning the bot after about 2 hours without running any other bot but with the same result. Any ideas how I can handle this situation?

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EDIT: Just re-read the notes and found the following hint:

NOTES 1: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}} has a rate limit smaller than Personal Access Token (PAT), so if you have much more requests(commits, prs, etc.) or face a 403 rate-limit-error, use PAT instead.

I think that will solve my second issue. I'll give it a try.

However, if you have any ideas what goes wrong concerning my first question, please let me know :)

[boring-cyborg[bot]]

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[nicrie]

NOTES 1 fixed the issues :) - all good now!

[BobAnkh]

Weirdly, the action is not triggered automatically. But I think this is an issue related to Github(maybe because the release is made by action?). But I think there might be a workaround: you can trigger the changelog action after your release action.

[nicrie]

Thank you! I'll give it a try!

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