enforce a real 6s cooldown between shared-token lichess.org requests, not just non-overlap

A bare mutex around games/user and user/activity wasn't enough: Lichess kept
rejecting the shared LICHESS_APP_TOKEN with 429 "Please only run 1
request(s) at a time" even when calls were strictly sequential with only
~100-300ms between one finishing and the next starting (confirmed live on
prod: near every request was getting 429'd right after the previous mutex
fix went out). Track the last release time and force a minimum 6s gap
before the next call is allowed to start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

LichessWebServices/lichess_client.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from typing import List, Dict, Any, Optional
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 import logging
 import json
-from rate_limiter import get_rate_limiter, get_shared_token_lock
+from rate_limiter import get_rate_limiter, get_shared_token_gate
 
 # Настройка логирования для модуля
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class LichessClient:
         # Сериализует games/user и user/activity между собой (см. rate_limiter.py) —
         # обе шарят один LICHESS_APP_TOKEN, и Lichess не пускает по нему 2+
         # запроса одновременно.
-        self.shared_token_lock = get_shared_token_lock()
+        self.shared_token_gate = get_shared_token_gate()
         # Lichess начал возвращать 404 (вместо честного 401/429) на анонимные
         # запросы к games/user и user/activity — тот же валидный токен, отправленный
         # для другого юзера, сразу превращает 404 в 429, то есть эндпоинт жив, просто
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ class LichessClient:
 
             headers = {'Authorization': f'Bearer {self.app_token}'} if self.app_token else {}
 
-            # Держим shared_token_lock на весь запрос-ответ (не только на паузу
+            # Держим shared_token_gate на весь запрос-ответ и с паузой после —
-            # выше) — LICHESS_APP_TOKEN общий с get_games_of_period, и Lichess
+            # LICHESS_APP_TOKEN общий с get_games_of_period, и Lichess не
-            # не пускает по нему 2+ запроса одновременно.
+            # пускает 2+ запроса подряд без ощутимой паузы между ними.
-            async with self.shared_token_lock:
+            async with self.shared_token_gate:
                 response = await self.client.get(url, headers=headers)
             logger.info(f"🔍 Lichess API response status: {response.status_code} for {username}")
             response.raise_for_status()  # Проверяем статус ответа
@@ -159,11 +159,12 @@ class LichessClient:
 
             logger.info(f"Запрос игр для {username} с {since_ms} по {until_ms}")
 
-            # Держим shared_token_lock на весь запрос-ответ (не только на паузу
+            # Держим shared_token_gate на весь запрос-ответ и с паузой после —
-            # выше) — LICHESS_APP_TOKEN общий с get_user_activity, и Lichess
+            # LICHESS_APP_TOKEN общий с get_user_activity, и Lichess не пускает
-            # не пускает по нему 2+ запроса одновременно (наблюдали 429
+            # 2+ запроса подряд без ощутимой паузы между ними (даже строго
-            # "Please only run 1 request(s) at a time" под конкурентной нагрузкой).
+            # последовательные с интервалом ~100-300мс ловили 429 "Please only
-            async with self.shared_token_lock:
+            # run 1 request(s) at a time" под реальной нагрузкой на проде).
+            async with self.shared_token_gate:
                 response = await self.client.get(url, params=params, headers=headers)
             response.raise_for_status()  # Проверяем статус ответа
             

LichessWebServices/rate_limiter.py

@@ -51,17 +51,50 @@ def get_rate_limiter() -> RateLimiter:
     """Get the global rate limiter instance"""
     return _rate_limiter
 
-# wait_if_needed() only paces request STARTS 0.2s apart; it releases the lock
+class SharedTokenGate:
-# before the request itself runs, so two requests can still be in flight at
+    """
-# once if either takes longer than 0.2s. That's fine for per-user-token calls
+    Serializes AND paces games/user + user/activity calls sharing LICHESS_APP_TOKEN.
-# (each pair has its own identity), but games/user and user/activity share one
-# LICHESS_APP_TOKEN process-wide, and Lichess enforces a hard "1 request at a
-# time" limit per token there (observed as 429 "Please only run 1 request(s)
-# at a time" under concurrent traffic) — those two calls must hold this lock
-# for their entire request/response cycle, not just the pre-request wait.
-_shared_token_lock = asyncio.Lock()
 
-def get_shared_token_lock() -> asyncio.Lock:
+    wait_if_needed() alone isn't enough here: it only paces request STARTS and
-    """Lock serializing lichess.org calls made with the shared LICHESS_APP_TOKEN."""
+    releases its lock before the request runs, so two requests can still
-    return _shared_token_lock
+    overlap in flight. A bare mutex isn't enough either: Lichess keeps
+    rejecting this token with "Please only run 1 request(s) at a time" even
+    when calls are strictly sequential with only ~100-300ms between one
+    finishing and the next starting — confirmed live on prod, where nearly
+    every request was getting 429'd despite never truly overlapping. Whatever
+    Lichess is enforcing here needs a real cooldown between calls, not just
+    non-overlap, so this gate tracks the last release time and forces a
+    minimum gap before the next request is allowed to start.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, min_gap: float = 6.0):
+        self._lock = asyncio.Lock()
+        self._min_gap = min_gap
+        self._last_release_time: Optional[float] = None
+
+    async def __aenter__(self):
+        await self._lock.acquire()
+        if self._last_release_time is not None:
+            elapsed = time.time() - self._last_release_time
+            if elapsed < self._min_gap:
+                wait_time = self._min_gap - elapsed
+                logger.debug(f"Shared token gate: waiting {wait_time:.3f}s before next games/user or user/activity call")
+                await asyncio.sleep(wait_time)
+        return self
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, exc_type, exc, tb):
+        self._last_release_time = time.time()
+        self._lock.release()
+
+# min_gap=6.0: no documented number from Lichess for this endpoint's real
+# limit: the games/user docs only mention a streaming throttle (games/sec
+# within one response), not an inter-request cooldown. 6s was chosen after
+# 429s persisted at looser spacing under real prod load; revisit if 429s
+# either persist (raise further) or checkpoint lag grows unacceptably
+# (Lichess documents its own real limit somewhere and this can be lowered).
+_shared_token_gate = SharedTokenGate(min_gap=6.0)
+
+def get_shared_token_gate() -> SharedTokenGate:
+    """Async context manager serializing+pacing lichess.org calls made with the shared LICHESS_APP_TOKEN."""
+    return _shared_token_gate