Artifact download URL only work for registered users (404 for guests)

We used to copy the URL from https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact#where-does-the-upload-go to our website for nightly builds (which have short retention and frequent updates, and don't warrant a GitHub Releases push). We intended to replace this with programmable download URLs that have been discussed in many issues on the repositories (either a `latest/release.zip` or a third party service which asks the Actions API for the latest URL and redirects the user). This stopped working very recently. --- Until recently, the actions tab was only viewable for logged in users (confusing 404 HTTP error for guests), but the artifact download URLs were still public (working for logged in users and also guests). Likewise, when the Actions API was released, API requests worked without any authentication. One could simply query the API for an artifact download URL and redirect the guests to it. \- All of that worked without GitHub account and could have worked from JavaScript or a small lightweight webservice which redirects the end-user to the latest artifact download through HTTP redirects (I wrote https://github.com/JayFoxRox/GitHub-artifact-URL for this purpose). However, within the last days these artifact download URLs were suddenly made private - they only work for registered GitHub users now. Everyone clicking the download button on our website (who isn't logged into GitHub) gets a confusing 404 error for direct artifact download URLs now. Even my tool to redirect user

Posted by JayFoxRox on Feb 2, 2020, 6:59 AM

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