Try to prevent 403 when accessing the GitHub API (#168)

* Repeat request on error (while logging it)

* Test one change at a time

* Conditionally authorize requests

This seems to affect Windows builds, so might not be the best solution,
but we're trying to isolate the issue to move forward

* Act on CI results

* Ease consumption via a JSON.parse wrapper

We still throw the error, but in a more controlled manner

* Act on CI results

.github/workflows/ubuntu.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ on:
     branches:
       - main
 
+env:
+  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+
 jobs:
   integration_test:
     name: >