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  1. GitHub stars, forks, topics and license for any public repo, with no token and no 60-an-hour limit

    GitHub's REST API allows 60 anonymous requests an hour. This endpoint reads the public repo page: stars, forks, watchers, topics, license, releases.

    · 1 min read

  2. Scraping API error codes explained: what each one means, whether to retry, and what it costs

    Every error is a status plus a short code and a sentence. The full list: the cause of each one, whether a retry helps, and which ones refund the credit.

    · 3 min read

  3. What max_age means in a scraping API, and why a stored answer costs 0 credits

    Site endpoints store answers and share them. max_age sets how old a stored copy may be; every response says whether it was live or stored, and how old it is.

    · 2 min read