Bower unable to install Faker@3.1.0

We have an old ember app has bower.json with below configuration:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "dependencies": {
    "Faker": "~3.1.0"
  }
}

It has been working for years, recently we found the below error in building

bower install
bower Faker#~3.1.0          not-cached https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js.git#~3.1.0
bower Faker#~3.1.0             resolve https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js.git#~3.1.0
bower Faker#~3.1.0        ENORESTARGET No tag found that was able to satisfy ~3.1.0

Additional error details:
No versions found in https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js.git

I checked https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js, the error is right. There is no 3.1.0 anymore, the current version is 6.6.6. But the git commit history cannot find 3.1.0 version anymore.

Is there a way for me to find the 3.1.0 back from somewhere? It seems the author clears the old versions?

As explained in What happened with faker.js, the library's original maintainer erased the whole history of the repository. Older versions of Faker are still available via npm install; resolving them from the NPM registry is stable, as they prevent popular packages being unpublished since the left-pad debacle. However the tags no longer exist in the GitHub repository, hence Bower cannot find the package.

There is a community-maintained fork of faker.js that you could switch to, even though new Bower packages cannot be created. Per the Bower documentation:

As Bower is deprecated, registering new Bower packages is not supported anymore. Neverthless you can install any GitHub repository as Bower package by putting full name in bower.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "angular-cli": "angular/angular-cli#^9.1.3"
  }
}

You can install any dependency from github with CLI as well:

bower install angular/angular-cli --save

In your case, therefore, you should be able to resolve the issue as follows:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "dependencies": {
    "Faker": "faker-js/faker#~3.1.0"
  }
}