HTTPForbidden Error when upgrading bun when GitHub API usage limit is exhausted

[rootCircle]

What version of Bun is running?

1.0.29+a146856d1

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.7.5-arch1-1 x86_64 unknown

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Exhaust your unauthenticated GitHub API keys. One way to do this is to :

   for i in $(seq 0 60); do 
   curl -fsSL https://api.github.com/repos/oven-sh/bun/releases/latest
   done # Don't abuse this, for good

   Don't worry this will automatically reset in 1 hour as mentioned here.

2. Run bun --upgrade from your terminal

This issue arrives even if you're on the latest version of terminal

What is the expected behavior?

The error could be more descriptive, instead of just HTTPForbidden possibly, as switching networks and/or waiting for just 1 hr can still solve the issue as mentioned later also.

What do you see instead?

Bun upgrade failed with error: HTTPForbidden

Please upgrade manually:
  curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

Additional information

Possible resolutions could include :

1. Recommend user to change to alternate network provider/VPN as rate limit are imposed per IP.
2. Recommend user to use GitHub Token. (Looking through the code, I believe it is supported, but I am not sure regarding this)
3. Recommend user to wait for 1 hour till Rate limit resets.
4. Don't do anything! (Current message still does sort of works in those situations, so it depends)

[Jarred-Sumner]

Unfortunately, there's very little we can do about this.

If you set the environment variable GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN to a GitHub API token it will use that instead for authenticated requests.

The only other solution really is to move off of GitHub releases which we might do in the future but we aren't doing that right now

You can also install Bun via npm.