Pod install takes too long time

Question

I'm trying to install my pods with pod install, it prints

Setting up CocoaPods master repo

and it takes too long time and nothing installing. Is that a bug or that's my mistake? Can I fix that problem?

Try out pod install --verbose. It will output, what is happening during installation — Artem Zaytsev, Dec 26 '16 at 09:33
It depends on your network speed, If your network is slow, generally it takes the longer time. — Imad Ali, Dec 26 '16 at 09:34
No, its very normal since the repo is VERY HEAVY, and git sever sucks, so you should wait, might take 30 mins - 1 hours depends — Tj3n, Dec 26 '16 at 09:34
@ImadAli I think 100 mbit/s is a good speed for installing pods :) — J. Doe, Dec 26 '16 at 09:34
@ArtemZaytsev I checked that already, it prints `Cloning into 'master'...` — J. Doe, Dec 26 '16 at 09:35
@J.Doe, currently main repo of CocoaPods is about 800Mb, and I think GitHub is intentionally limiting network channel for downloading it. http://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/03/08/cocoapods-popular-basically-took-five-github-servers/ — user28434'mstep, Dec 26 '16 at 09:43
http://blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Post-Mortem/ — Inder Kumar Rathore, Dec 26 '16 at 09:47
Yes, it takes a time, wait until complete update,because if u pause or stop progress and try to start again then it also take same more time — Sapana Ranipa, Dec 26 '16 at 12:09

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 18 '17 at 10:31

Yes these problems often occur in first time installation.

So these are what I did to solve it:

1. pod setup

It will do "setting up master" again, DONT' WAIT, continue these steps below

2. Ctrl +C
3. pod repo remove master
4. cd ~/.cocoapods/repos 
5. git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git master

It takes around 5 minutes for me (I think it depends on internet connection), then I can do "pod install".

https://stackoverflow.com/a/40541430/3258003

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 26 '16 at 09:49

Expanding my comment.

CocoaPods is so popular and heavy, so GitHub is limiting rate for downloading.

From user mhagger, an engineer on GitHub’s infrastructure team:

The slow fetches and clones (which sometimes time out) that the CocoaPods community is experiencing are caused by automatic rate limiting on our servers, which is done to make sure that extremely high levels of load in one repository cannot impact other GitHub users. The CocoaPods/Specs repository is more or less permanently being rate limited.

There have been approximately 1.1 Million clones/fetches from CocoaPods/Specs in the past week. This activity has kept, on average, more than 5 server CPUs permanently pegged, and used several terabytes of bandwidth out of our datacenters. There are only a handful of other repositories in all of GitHub that even come close to this level of activity. As far as I know, this level of activity is not new, but has been going on for many months and probably longer. Suffice it to say that the name CocoaPods/Specs is quite well known within our team.

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/03/08/cocoapods-popular-basically-took-five-github-servers/

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