Throttle requests

[rvojcik]

Throttle requests

[fitzg2]

Ah seeing this in the code

        # If set, wait between exports
        if args.debug:
            print("Waiting between exports for %d seconds" % (wait_between_exports))
        time.sleep(wait_between_exports)

Had to set wait_between_exports in the gitlab config. Probably should be added to the sample config.yml

[rvojcik]

Hi @fitzg2 , yes that's true. Gitlab.com instance has several rate limits.

In config.yaml-example there is already some information about that

  # Wait Between Exports
  # How many seconds to wait between projects to export.
  # This is due rate-limiting in gitlab.com
  # https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/import_export.html#rate-limits
  #
  # If you break the limit API respond with 429 for your IP address for a while.
  #
  # When you are using this in your private gitlab instance you can set it to 0
  wait_between_exports: 303