Errors downloading pagefind binary

[dprothero]

We will frequently get this error during our CI/CD process. It only seems to occur on GitHub actions (as we have other CI/CD processes on BuildKite).

It seems to be trying to download the release, but I'm not sure why it would get a 403. Retrying the job so far has always worked.

Just curious if this is something that's been seen before.

error /home/runner/work/internal-product-docs/internal-product-docs/node_modules/pagefind: Command failed.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
Exit code: 1
Command: node ./lib/postinstall.js
Arguments: 
Directory: /home/runner/work/internal-product-docs/internal-product-docs/node_modules/pagefind
Output:
Finding release for v0.10.1
https://api.github.com/repos/CloudCannon/pagefind/releases/tags/v0.10.1
GET https://api.github.com/repos/CloudCannon/pagefind/releases/tags/v0.10.1
Deleting invalid download cache
Downloading pagefind failed: Error: Request failed: 403
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/internal-product-docs/internal-product-docs/node_modules/pagefind/lib/download.js:134:24)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:628:26)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient (node:_http_client:693:27)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (node:_http_common:128:17)
    at TLSSocket.socketOnData (node:_http_client:[53](https://github.com/twilio-internal/internal-product-docs/actions/runs/3803632513/jobs/6470177091#step:5:54)4:22)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:315:12)
    at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:289:9)
    at TLSSocket.Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:228:10)

[bglw]

Hey @dprothero 👋

Sorry I missed this — I forget to check the discussions tab sometimes. I have seen this occasionally, and I also don't know why it occurs. On GitHub Actions I've lately deferred to pulling the binaries directly rather than using NPM, see this step for downloading humane (which is packaged identically to Pagefind): https://github.com/CloudCannon/pagefind/blob/dc9354cb916a81de3c49b0785c5bb7a985ad0945/.github/workflows/test.yml#L78-L83

I'm planning to rework the npm package to leverage optionalDependencies, rather than downloading from a release, which should resolve issues by keeping everything npm native. Keep an eye out for that 🙂