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AFAIK it’s a browser extension, so it doesn’t need API calls, it integrates itself into GitHub.

This one does, but the ones like huboard and waffle.io use the API.

GitHub is very lenient with their rate limits if you just ask. I'd guess huboard and waffle.io have agreements in place where users authenticated through them have higher limits.

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