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Missing anchor rate-limiting for getting-started-with-the-rest-api #43557

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/getting-started-with-the-rest-api#rate-limiting

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

It seems that GitHub's backend has hallucinated a #rate-limiting anchor. Since it expects one, the docs clearly need to have one.

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My regression tests tripped on this url: https://github.com/check-spelling-sandbox/check-spelling/actions/runs/23625208627/job/68812871237:

#   Failed test 'apply.pl (stdout) imaginary-repository'
#   at t/Apply.t line 319.
#                   'Apply.t: Unknown error, please check the list of known issues https://github.com/check-spelling/check-spelling/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20apply.pl and file a bug to https://github.com/check-spelling/check-spelling/issues/new?title=%60apply.pl%60%20scenario&body=Please%20provide%20details+preferably%20including%20a%20link%20to%20a%20workflow%20run,%20the%20configuration%20of%20the%20repository,%20and%20anything%20else%20you%20may%20know%20about%20the%20problem%2e
# {
# 	"message": "API rate limit exceeded for installation. If you reach out to GitHub Support for help, please include the request ID 5006:2A7FF8:1BED75F:70CA5F5:69C5DD47 and timestamp 2026-03-27 01:28:39 UTC. For more on scraping GitHub and how it may affect your rights, please review our Terms of Service (https:\/\/docs.github.com\/en\/site-policy\/github-terms\/github-terms-of-service)",
# 	"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/getting-started-with-the-rest-api#rate-limiting",
# 	"status": "403"
# }

I intend to fix my code to better handle this error, but the docs should have the anchor (w/o them, how would I or someone else know what to do?).

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