# Upload reach api rate limit
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/upload-reach-api-rate-limit/64468
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [May 19, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/upload-reach-api-rate-limit/64468 "2025-05-19T22:39:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Felipe-9](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Felipe-9)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/upload-reach-api-rate-limit/64468/1 "2025-05-19T22:39:32Z")
Whenever im trying to update the system `nix flake update` i frequently get the api limit reached error.
anyone else having this problem?
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### Author:  [@smkuehnhold](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/smkuehnhold)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/upload-reach-api-rate-limit/64468/2 "2025-05-19T23:14:11Z")
I had this happen to me in the past with an app that had a self-updater script combined with a service that was poorly written (by me). I believe it was noisetorch.
At startup, it would try to update itself in a way that nix doesn’t like and fail. Presumably by fetching a tarball from GH. And because the service was written to repeat on failure without a limit, this would repeat ad nauseam.
The problem also didn’t bubble up immediately because I started on a relatively new version. It took some time for the version I had installed to drift away from the latest and then this setup blew up on me.
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### Author:  [@NobbZ](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/NobbZ)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/upload-reach-api-rate-limit/64468/3 "2025-05-20T05:53:26Z")
This is a common problem, and is probably even more common after GH reduced the limit even further recently.
Your best option is to set an `access-tokens` for GH in your nix configuration.
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### Author:  [@sokai](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/sokai)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/upload-reach-api-rate-limit/64468/4 "2025-05-20T13:56:45Z")
@Felipe-9 Maybe this thread can help u out: [Flakes: Provide GitHub API Token for rate limiting?](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-provide-github-api-token-for-rate-limiting/18609)
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### Author:  [@Felipe-9](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Felipe-9)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/upload-reach-api-rate-limit/64468/5 "2025-05-21T12:47:07Z")
i guess having greater rate limit would indeed help, that is until they lower further. i when i have time i will give it a try, will be using sops tho.