From 81020d50620fd1d8779dabadca0937eb7db37d58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Gaughan <gaughan@u.northwestern.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 13:36:09 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix to gha req issue

---
 github_api_req.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/github_api_req.py b/github_api_req.py
index 738cac5..7c8737a 100644
--- a/github_api_req.py
+++ b/github_api_req.py
@@ -22,8 +22,12 @@ def get_milestone_information(repo_uri):
     print(repo_uri_list)
     api_url = "https://api.github.com/repos/" + repo_uri_list[-2]  + "/" + repo_uri_list[-1] + "/milestones"
     headers = {'content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept-Charset': 'UTF-8', 'Authorization': 'bearer ' + key}
-    response = requests.get(url = api_url, headers=headers)
-    response_dict = response.json()
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(url = api_url, headers=headers)
+        response_dict = response.json()
+    except:
+        print('error with the gha request')
+        response_dict = {}
     return response_dict
 
 def parse_milestones(milestones, earliest_date):