From 1eae832e64e1088e0a46a21521233f64a06891cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 23:58:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Initial plan


From 25da44ef5649669efb200cba6594364fa8c3107a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 00:03:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Handle Octokit::Forbidden for large contributor lists
 with warning and empty return

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/jekyll/github-metadata/sessions/998e9980-bf0f-4a9b-b759-5a9dcaaf5631

Co-authored-by: parkr <237985+parkr@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 lib/jekyll-github-metadata/client.rb            |  3 +++
 spec/client_spec.rb                             | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 .../webmock/api_get_contributors_forbidden.json |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 spec/webmock/api_get_contributors_forbidden.json

diff --git a/lib/jekyll-github-metadata/client.rb b/lib/jekyll-github-metadata/client.rb
index aab378b..29c882e 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll-github-metadata/client.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll-github-metadata/client.rb
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ def save_from_errors(default = false)
       rescue Faraday::ConnectionFailed, Octokit::TooManyRequests => e
         GitHubMetadata.log :warn, e.message
         default
+      rescue Octokit::Forbidden => e
+        GitHubMetadata.log :warn, "#{e.message} This is a limitation of the GitHub API."
+        default
       rescue Octokit::NotFound
         default
       end
diff --git a/spec/client_spec.rb b/spec/client_spec.rb
index 7ab97f2..c05c31f 100644
--- a/spec/client_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/client_spec.rb
@@ -39,6 +39,23 @@
     end.to raise_error(described_class::BadCredentialsError)
   end
 
+  it "warns and returns false when contributors list is too large" do
+    stub_request(:get, url("/repos/jekyll/github-metadata/contributors?per_page=100"))
+      .with(:headers => request_headers.merge(
+        "Authorization" => "token #{token}"
+      ))
+      .to_return(
+        :status  => 403,
+        :headers => WebMockHelper::RESPONSE_HEADERS,
+        :body    => webmock_data("contributors_forbidden")
+      )
+    logger_output = StringIO.new
+    Jekyll::GitHubMetadata.logger = Logger.new(logger_output)
+    result = subject.contributors("jekyll/github-metadata")
+    expect(result).to be(false)
+    expect(logger_output.string).to include("This is a limitation of the GitHub API")
+  end
+
   it "supresses network accesses if requested" do
     WebMock.disable_net_connect!
 
diff --git a/spec/webmock/api_get_contributors_forbidden.json b/spec/webmock/api_get_contributors_forbidden.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f89d7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/webmock/api_get_contributors_forbidden.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  "message": "The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API.",
+  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#list-repository-contributors"
+}