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"The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API" #283
Description
Capture this error, warn, and return no contributors:
Liquid Exception: GET https://api.github.com/repos/bkmgit/sched_ext/contributors?per_page=100: 403 - The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API. // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#list-repository-contributors in /_layouts/base.html
/usr/local/bundle/gems/octokit-4.25.1/lib/octokit/response/raise_error.rb:14:in `on_complete': GET https://api.github.com/repos/bkmgit/sched_ext/contributors?per_page=100: 403 - The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API. // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#list-repository-contributors (Octokit::Forbidden)
Here's the API:
$ curl -L \
> -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
> -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
> https://api.github.com/repos/sched_ext/sched_ext/contributors
Originally reported in github/pages-gem#915
Activity
S0AndS0 commentedon May 12, 2026
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