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GraphQL rate limits documentation mentions an unavailable authentication method #34114

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/rate-limits-and-node-limits-for-the-graphql-api

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

The article includes the following sentence when detailing primary rate limits for each authentication method:

For OAuth apps: 5,000 points per hour, or 10,000 points per hour if the app is owned by a GitHub Enterprise Cloud organization. This only applies when the app uses their client ID and client secret to request public data.

However, authentication via client ID + client secret for OAuth apps appears not to be available for the GraphQL API, as a user pointed out in octokit/auth-oauth-app.js#46. I also got the same result when trying via curl.

If the quoted sentence refers to the aforementioned client ID + client secret basic authentication mechanism (which, to my knowledge, is only available for the REST API), it probably shouldn't be there.
If that's not the case, it's unclear which authentication method it refers to.

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