The update command does not indicate what to do when rate limit reached

[benjaminapetersen]

Given:

$ webdriver-manager update
webdriver-manager: using global installed version 12.0.6
(node:48495) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.32.zip'
(node:48495) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 2): Error: Failed to make Github request, rate limit reached.

It would be helpful to provide suggestions for what the user can do as a next step.

[cnishina]

I agree here. GeckoDriver grabs information from GitHub and the APIs are rate limited for non authenticated requests. We try our best to make unnecessary requests; however, the error message does not provide any insight on how long to wait or where to look at the documentation what the rate limit is.

[benjaminapetersen]

Error is from this file.

Suggestions for improving this that follows previous conventions for similar issues?

[benjaminapetersen]

Any insight into how to workaround? Even just to get some details going on this issue. I find that the rate limit problem does not go away (ie, time passing doesn't seem to resolve on its own)
(node:64146) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): Error: Failed to make Github request, rate limit reached.

[benjaminapetersen]

Looks related to #216

[benjaminapetersen]

Would it be possible to provide some information about how to manually resolve the issue? IE, via browser, what to go download, where to put it, etc. Its not a pretty solution, but would be a potential workaround.

[benjaminapetersen]

Possible to hard-code a fallback version if the request fails due to rate limiting? This does create some developer maintenance for future releases, but improves the user experience.

[benjaminapetersen]

Still see this:

[14:44:40] I/file_manager - creating folder ~/web-console/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium
(node:99759) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): Error: Failed to make Github request, rate limit reached.
[14:44:41] I/update - chromedriver: unzipping chromedriver_2.33.zip
[14:44:41] I/update - chromedriver: setting permissions to 0755 for ~/web-console/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.33

I'd consider constructing a PR if the above suggestion is acceptable? It would add some maintenance overhead to updating a fallback version. If no, +1 to a discussion about alternative approaches.

[elgohr]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425706

[ferndot]

Is there any progress on this?