[Bug] Bundlephobia badges unreliable, returning 429

[robinloeffel]

Hey there! I've recently made the switch for some of my packages from shields.io to badgen.net. I'm really happy with it, especially with the load times and the variety of available services!

However, speaking of those services, bundlephobia.com has been notoriously unstable ever since for my packages. Sometimes the badges correctly work, but sometimes I get returned a badge just saying "bundlephobia 429", even though the service itself works fine when accessing it directly. You can see it happening in the following readmes:

• https://github.com/robinloeffel/cosha/blob/main/readme.md → Currently broken
  • 
• https://github.com/robinloeffel/sgnls/blob/main/readme.md → Currently working
  • 

And here some screenshots in case both instances are working when you get the time to check out this issue.

Hope you have a good one, and thanks for all of your work!

[josephwynn-sc]

I was having this issue as well, and ended up switching back to shields.io. I could never figure out why badgen.net has an issue with some of my packages.

[franciscop]

I just did an experiment. I believe if Bundlephobia does not have a package indexed (never searched) and you try to use badgen, it will error out, and even if you index it later it retains the error. However if you go to bundlephobia first and then use badgen, it will work

[franciscop]

Update: if you add the ?cache=300, load it, and wait the 5 mins then it will work again.

Or maybe it was all chance, who knows, but this way it started working for me at least!