diff --git a/tools/gh_api.py b/tools/gh_api.py
index 9d2a756..7bacc9e 100644
--- a/tools/gh_api.py
+++ b/tools/gh_api.py
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ import json
 try:
     import requests_cache
 except ImportError:
-    print("no cache")
+    print("no cache", file=sys.stderr)
 else:
-    requests_cache.install_cache("gh_api")
+    requests_cache.install_cache("gh_api", expire_after=3600)
 
 # Keyring stores passwords by a 'username', but we're not storing a username and
 # password
@@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ def get_paged_request(url, headers=None, **params):
     results = []
     params.setdefault("per_page", 100)
     while True:
-        print("fetching %s with %s" % (url, params), file=sys.stderr)
+        if '?' in url:
+            params = None
+            print("fetching %s" % url, file=sys.stderr)
+        else:
+            print("fetching %s with %s" % (url, params), file=sys.stderr)
         response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
         response.raise_for_status()
         results.extend(response.json())