update documentation for increasing GitHub API limit
@@ -230,10 +230,12 @@ an API access token to raise your API limit to 5000 requests an hour.
2. Store your new token somewhere secure (e.g. keychain, netrc, etc.)
-3. Before running your BinderHub server, run the following::
+3. Update ``secret.yaml`` by entering the following::
- export GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=<insert_token_value_here>
+ github:
+ accessToken: <insert_token_value_here>
+This value will be loaded into `GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN` environment variable and
BinderHub will automatically use the token stored in this variable when making
API requests to GitHub. See the `GitHub authentication documentation
<https://developer.github.com/v3/guides/getting-started/#authentication>`_ for
