phantomjs install fails with http status 403

[MathynMovin]

Sometimes when installing phantomjs the install fails. The logs show the following:

PhantomJS not found on PATH
Downloading https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Saving to /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Receiving...
\
Error requesting archive.
Status: 403
Request options: {
  "uri": "https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2",
  "encoding": null,
  "followRedirect": true,
  "headers": {},
  "strictSSL": true
}
Response headers: {
  "x-amz-request-id": "DB0E7CC2E611A040",
  "x-amz-id-2": "53IAT+5IHarnawYBVvDpy8pBwBl2AzQwDu/1bmcbWAuTp0Fa6JRQJ1pvLBhgi8Ki",
  "content-type": "application/xml",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked",
  "date": "Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:12:58 GMT",
  "server": "AmazonS3",
  "connection": "close"
}
Make sure your network and proxy settings are correct.

If you continue to have issues, please report this full log at https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs

> optipng-bin@3.1.1 postinstall /home/vagrant/project/node_modules/optipng-bin
> node lib/install.js

  ✔ optipng pre-build test passed successfully
npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-83-generic
npm ERR! argv "/home/vagrant/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.0/bin/node" "/home/vagrant/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.0/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v4.4.0
npm ERR! npm  v2.14.20
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! phantomjs@1.9.19 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the phantomjs@1.9.19 install script 'node install.js'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the phantomjs package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node install.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs phantomjs
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!     npm owner ls phantomjs
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/vagrant/project/npm-debug.log

It appears to be a network issue (http status 403 meaning forbidden). This is strange because when I try to install it again it does work. The error appears to happen at random and I have not been able to determine if it is something on my side.

However this does make it rather tricky to use since I don't want my production builds to fail at random because of such an issue.

Anyone got any ideas what might be causing this?

Extra info:

• Tested on Vagrant running Ubuntu 14.04
• Using PhantomJS version 1.9.19
• NPM version 2.14.20
• Node version 4.4.0

[nicks]

if you upgrade to 1.9.20, it doesn't use bitbucket by default anymore

[MathynMovin]

Great thanks! I'll try that.