How to check my GitHub current rate limit?

Question

The GitHub page https://developer.github.com/v3/rate_limit/ shows a rate limit status as example:

Response

Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1372700873
{
  "resources": {
    "core": {
      "limit": 5000,
      "remaining": 4999,
      "reset": 1372700873
    },
    "search": {
      "limit": 30,
      "remaining": 18,
      "reset": 1372697452
    }
  },
  "rate": {
    "limit": 5000,
    "remaining": 4999,
    "reset": 1372700873
  }
}

But only says I need to check this GET /rate_limit. But how to use that? Should I do a command like this bellow?

curl -i https://api.github.com/users/octocat GET /rate_limit

How would be this command?

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Answer 1

You can call this endpoint using

curl -H "Authorization: token YOUR-OAUTH-TOKEN" -X GET https://api.github.com/rate_limit

or similar in Ruby

    require 'uri' 
    require 'net/http'    
    
    url = URI("https://api.github.com/rate_limit")
    http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
    http.use_ssl = true
    
    request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)     
    request["Authorization"] = 'token YOUR-OAUTH-TOKEN'

    response = http.request(request) 
    puts response.read_body

Answer 2

Here's the Python equivalent using requests.

Replace TOKEN with your token. (I use the Github personal access token found here)

import requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'token TOKEN',
}

response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/rate_limit', headers=headers)

print(response.text)