What's new in github-code-search v1.8.2

Full release notes: https://github.com/fulll/github-code-search/releases/tag/v1.8.2

Highlights

Fix: multi-page searches aborted by rate limits now auto-resume

When searching across a large organisation with many results (close to the GitHub 1 000-result cap), the CLI could crash mid-way through pagination with:

  Fetching results from GitHub… ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░  page 9/10
error: GitHub API rate limit exceeded. Please retry in 53 seconds.

The search was lost at ~90 % completion and had to be restarted from scratch.

Root causes (three compounding issues)

1. Long rate-limit waits threw immediately.
When x-ratelimit-reset indicated a wait longer than 10 seconds, fetchWithRetry threw an error instead of waiting. The pagination loop propagated this exception and discarded all pages already fetched.

2. Secondary rate limits were not recognised.
GitHub secondary rate limits return 403 + Retry-After (without x-ratelimit-remaining: 0). This pattern bypassed the retry logic entirely and surfaced as an unhandled API error.

3. 422 error when results hit exactly 1 000.
When total_count was an exact multiple of 100 (e.g. 1 000 results across 10 full pages), the pagination loop attempted a page 11. GitHub rejects this with 422 Cannot access beyond the first 1000 results.

What changed

• Auto-wait with visible feedback. When a rate-limit response is received during pagination, the CLI now prints a message, waits for the exact duration indicated by GitHub (x-ratelimit-reset or Retry-After + 1 s clock-skew buffer), and resumes automatically — no retry counting, no data lost:

    Fetching results from GitHub… ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░  page 9/10
    Rate limited — waiting 53 seconds, resuming automatically…
    Fetching results from GitHub… ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓  page 10/10

• Secondary rate limit detection. Any 403 + Retry-After response is now treated as a retriable rate-limit condition.

• Page 11 guard. fetchAllResults now short-circuits before requesting a page beyond totalPages, preventing the 422 error at the cap.

Before: error at page 9, search lost.
After: transparent pause, TUI opens with all 1 000 results.

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