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downsides to using the API:
- There are more severe rate limits. This is particularly true for
unauthenticated requests, and for a tool like lifter which makes
a bunch of request as its normal operation, is unusable, which means...
a bunch of requests as its normal operation, is unusable, which means...
- You pretty much have to use authenticated requests, which means you
will need to provide a [Personal Access Token](https://github.com/settings/tokens)
- Tokens expire, which means you will have to periodically make a new
one and update your cron to use that. They _should_ expire because
tokens that never expire are a security risk. However, if a token
wasn't necessary you also wouldn't have the security risk. Needing
a token to get around the rate limits now also means you need to
manage token lifetime.
- Authentication means you can and will be tracked.

Because of these changes, the earlier description of how to configure
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```ini
[lifter]
template = github_release_latest
template = github_api_latest
project = cjrh/lifter
anchor_text = lifter-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
version = 0.1.1

[lifter.exe]
template = github_release_latest
template = github_api_latest
project = cjrh/lifter
anchor_text = lifter-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
version = 0.1.1
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