Popcorn-desktop: 403 on nw:build?

[OmarShehata]

I just downloaded the master branch on Windows 8, ran npm install and got all the dependencies. When I run gulp build everything works until it hits an error saying

Received status code 403: https://get.popcorntime.sh/repo/nw/

Here's the full output:

http://puu.sh/pQmHW/bf0825f47b.png

Is anyone else getting this error? It looks like just opening https://get.popcorntime.sh/repo/nw/ in the browser shows a broken nginx page. How long has this been down? Is there anything I can do to work around this?

[VitorVRS]

You should use the main branch (development).

[Ekinoks]

Same error on Ubuntu 16.04 with development branch

[OmarShehata]

Switched to development, same error. Can anyone confirm they can run it?

[pellaeon]

I'm also getting this error on development branch.

[deercoder]

same error on MAC, and also on development branch

[pellaeon]

I figured out a way to extract the required files from the packages, I wrote the note here (also includes some steps to make it start without error, I will file bug reports later.)

[OmarShehata]

Temporary fix: Go into Gruntfile.js and comment out this line:

download_url: 'https://get.popcorntime.sh/repo/nw'

And gulpfile.js and comment out:

downloadUrl: 'https://get.popcorntime.sh/repo/nw/',

[VitorVRS]

You should not comment this line, because on another point in gulpfile it is use to concat to the NW file corresponding to your machine (e.g linux32, linux64, windows...)

[OmarShehata]

@VitorVRS do you know how to fix this so it builds? Is there a mirror out there to https://get.popcorntime.sh/repo/nw/ ? Or another way? @pellaeon 's fix looks promising but I'm not sure if it will work on Windows, since I'm not sure how to extract the binaries like that.

[ItachiSan]

I would suggest, instead of removing the line, of using Butter's NW.JS.
The _downloadUrl_ sets the path where there's the needed NW.JS release tarball; removing it falls back on official NW.JS runtime, which does not provide the codecs that the PCT NWJS do.
As Butter also uses the same tarball of PopcornTime (I suppose, for sure is closer to PCT one that the official one), I suggest to all the builders to use
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/butterproject/nwjs-prebuilt/master/
as download URL.
Cheers :smile:

[OmarShehata]

Thanks @ItachiSan ! I'll give that a shot. I assume that's why I was able to build, I could not get any videos to actually play.

[Rudloff]

@ItachiSan The URL you suggested fails with this error:

Received status code 400: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/butterproject/nwjs-prebuilt/master/

[ChrisAlderson]

https://get.popcorntime.sh/repo/nw/ should be accessible, so I'm closing this issue.