libfetchers: avoid api.github.com ratelimit if no github token is set

If we don't have any github token, we won't be able to fetch private
repos, but we are also more likely to run into API limits since
we don't have a token. To mitigate this only ever use the github api
if we actually have a token.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/libfetchers/github.cc b/src/libfetchers/github.cc
index a491d82a6..2115ce2f5 100644
--- a/src/libfetchers/github.cc
+++ b/src/libfetchers/github.cc
@@ -262,17 +262,20 @@ struct GitHubInputScheme : GitArchiveInputScheme
 
     DownloadUrl getDownloadUrl(const Input & input) const override
     {
-        // FIXME: use regular /archive URLs instead? api.github.com
-        // might have stricter rate limits.
         auto host = maybeGetStrAttr(input.attrs, "host").value_or("github.com");
-        auto url = fmt(
-            host == "github.com"
-            ? "https://api.%s/repos/%s/%s/tarball/%s"
-            : "https://%s/api/v3/repos/%s/%s/tarball/%s",
-            host, getStrAttr(input.attrs, "owner"), getStrAttr(input.attrs, "repo"),
+        Headers headers = makeHeadersWithAuthTokens(host);
+        // If we have no auth headers then we default to the public archive
+        // urls so we do not run into rate limits.
+        const auto urlFmt =
+            host != "github.com"
+            ? "https://%s/api/v3/repos/%s/%s/tarball/%s"
+            : headers.empty()
+            ? "https://%s/%s/%s/archive/%s.tar.gz"
+            : "https://api.%s/repos/%s/%s/tarball/%s";
+
+        const auto url = fmt(urlFmt, host, getStrAttr(input.attrs, "owner"), getStrAttr(input.attrs, "repo"),
             input.getRev()->to_string(Base16, false));
 
-        Headers headers = makeHeadersWithAuthTokens(host);
         return DownloadUrl { url, headers };
     }