Excessive API calls to GitHub / GitLab

[jroddev]

Hitting rate limiting issues during development. Users may experience the same while tracking many apps. Every time the Apps page loads all information is re-fetched. This involves multiple calls:

• call to determine android root
• call to fetch build.gradle file
• optional call to readme if packageName detection failed in build.gradle
• call to fetch icon

At the moment only the repo url is saved. Change this to be a json array that also contains the package name and icon url. I could also make these values configurable by the user in cases where my packageName detection logic fails.

[jroddev]

Rate limit looks to be 60/hr for unauthenticated user https://api.github.com/rate_limit

    "rate": {
        "limit": 60,
        "remaining": 60,
        "reset": 1668498567,
        "used": 0,
        "resource": "core"
    }

The calls that use api.github.com are actually

• determine default branch
• determine android root
• get releases list

Fetching files uses raw, not API so getting the icon is also OK. I can probably switch determine android root to using raw and get a 30% improvement here.

Currently - best case is we can load the Apps page once per hour with 20 GitHub trackers (3 api requests per app). The rate limiting is based on IP address so switching from WiFi to cellular, or using a VPN can help to work around this.