# Flakes: Provide GitHub API Token for rate limiting?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-provide-github-api-token-for-rate-limiting/18609
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [April 12, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-provide-github-api-token-for-rate-limiting/18609 "2022-04-12T20:46:20Z")
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### Author: ![bandithedoge](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/bandithedoge/32/7597_2.png) [@bandithedoge](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/bandithedoge)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-provide-github-api-token-for-rate-limiting/18609/4 "2022-10-17T21:27:04Z")

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Is there a way to do this with an environment variable?

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