allow workflow to access draft releases

Author: StFroese

.github/workflows/test.yaml

@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install requirements
       run: uv pip install --system . --group test ${{ matrix.installs }}
     - name: Run tests
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       run: pytest --cov=MCEq --cov-branch --cov-report=xml -n 3
     - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v5

src/MCEq/config.py

@@ -407,16 +407,23 @@ def get_file_checksum(self):
         return self.sha256_hash.hexdigest()
 
 
-def _download_file(url, outfile):
+def _download_file(url, outfile, github_token=None):
     """Downloads the MCEq database from github"""
 
     import math
 
     import requests
     from tqdm import tqdm
 
+    headers = {}
+    if github_token:
+        headers["Authorization"] = f"token {github_token}"
+
     # Streaming, so we can iterate over the response.
-    r = requests.get(url, stream=True)
+    r = requests.get(url, stream=True, headers=headers)
+
+    if r.status_code != 200:
+        raise Exception(f"Download failed with status {r.status_code}")
 
     # Total size in bytes.
     total_size = int(r.headers.get("content-length", 0))
@@ -455,7 +462,11 @@ def _download_file(url, outfile):
     print(f"Downloading for mceq database file {mceq_db_fname}.")
     if debug_level >= 2:
         print(url)
-    _download_file(url, filepath_to_database)
+
+    import os
+
+    github_token = os.environ.get("GITHUB_TOKEN")
+    _download_file(url, filepath_to_database, github_token=github_token)
 
 old_database = "mceq_db_lext_dpm191_v12.h5"
 filepath_to_old_database = data_dir / old_database