ripgrep is causing 403s
Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Aug 20, 2025 by zengk95 Closed Sep 22, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (dylan-hurd-oai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex is running?
n/a
Which model were you using?
n/a
What platform is your computer?
Linux
What steps can reproduce the bug?
When I'm trying to install this in CI, I'm getting
#9 [4/8] RUN npm install -g @openai/codex
#9 34.19 npm error code 1
#9 34.19 npm error path /usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep
#9 34.19 npm error command failed
#9 34.19 npm error command sh -c node ./lib/postinstall.js
#9 34.19 npm error Finding release for v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error GET https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt/releases/tags/v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error Deleting invalid download cache
#9 34.19 npm error Download attempt 1 failed, retrying in 2 seconds...
#9 34.19 npm error Finding release for v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error GET https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt/releases/tags/v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error Deleting invalid download cache
#9 34.19 npm error Download attempt 2 failed, retrying in 4 seconds...
#9 34.19 npm error Finding release for v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error GET https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt/releases/tags/v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error Deleting invalid download cache
#9 34.19 npm error Download attempt 3 failed, retrying in 8 seconds...
#9 34.19 npm error Finding release for v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error GET https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt/releases/tags/v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error Deleting invalid download cache
#9 34.19 npm error Download attempt 4 failed, retrying in 16 seconds...
#9 34.19 npm error Finding release for v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error GET https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt/releases/tags/v13.0.0-13
#9 34.19 npm error Deleting invalid download cache
#9 34.19 npm error Error: Request failed: 403
#9 34.19 npm error at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/download.js:110:24)
#9 34.19 npm error at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:622:26)
#9 34.19 npm error at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:507:28)
#9 34.19 npm error at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient (node:_http_client:772:27)
#9 34.19 npm error at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (node:_http_common:117:17)
#9 34.19 npm error at TLSSocket.socketOnData (node:_http_client:614:22)
#9 34.19 npm error at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:507:28)
#9 34.19 npm error at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:559:12)
#9 34.19 npm error at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:510:3)
#9 34.19 npm error at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:390:5)
#9 34.19 npm error Error: Request failed: 403Our CI runners all share the same IP so it makes it think that we're hitting the GH api a ton, running into rate limits.
What is the expected behavior?
The install would work, without having to hit github releases. It should be through npm.
What do you see instead?
Maybe have a separate way to install ripgrep? Or not have it as a dependency?
Additional information
_No response_
6 Comments
+1 for that
Same but it's giving me 401's
90 error Error: Request failed: 401This is a well-known issue about the [github-api-limit]https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-ripgrep?tab=readme-ov-file#github-api-limit-note
You can produce an API key, set the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable to it when downloading packages from GitHub. This increases your API limit.
this is my solution.
npm install -g --ignore-scripts @openai/codexand just use a binary (and pack that for lightweight container)👍 we recommend installing ripgrep separately and skipping the postinstall script with
npm install -g --ignore-scripts @openai/codex. We may improve this in the future but need to consider impacts to bundle sizeI have https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/3660 out to fix this for real.