The GITHUB_PAT environmental is used to authenticate to the GitHub API to retrieve information about versions of the data, but it isn't used when downloading, which can still cause users (and more importantly Travis CI) to hit the GitHub rate limit and error.
ha0ye
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GITHUB_PATenvironmental is used to authenticate to the GitHub API to retrieve information about versions of the data, but it isn't used when downloading, which can still cause users (and more importantly Travis CI) to hit the GitHub rate limit and error.