docs: source download badges from pepy.tech to stop pypistats rate-limit errors#250
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…mit errors The six monthly-download badges fetched from img.shields.io/pypi/dm/<pkg>, which shields sources from pypistats.org. pypistats rate-limits by IP and fails on ~6 concurrent uncached requests, so the README's six badges routinely rendered "rate limited by upstream service". Switch each download badge to static.pepy.tech/badge/<pkg>/month (pepy serves statically cached SVGs from a different upstream) and repoint the click-through to pepy.tech/projects/<pkg>. Metric stays monthly downloads; pyversions badges are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
The six monthly-download badges in the README used
img.shields.io/pypi/dm/<pkg>, which shields.io sources from pypistats.org. pypistats rate-limits by IP and fails when ~6 uncached badge requests arrive at once — the shields maintainers describe this exact case (badges/shields#11620, psf/pypistats.org#100). With exactly six download badges, the README routinely rendered "rate limited by upstream service".Change
Swap each download badge to pepy.tech, which serves statically cached SVGs from a different upstream:
img.shields.io/pypi/dm/<pkg>.svg→static.pepy.tech/badge/<pkg>/monthpypistats.org/packages/<pkg>→pepy.tech/projects/<pkg>Metric stays monthly downloads (
downloads/month). Thepyversionsbadges are untouched (they don't hit pypistats).Verification
static.pepy.tech/badge/<pkg>/monthendpoints return HTTP 200 and render a count (e.g.downloads/month | 16k).grepconfirms zeropypi/dmreferences remain and 6 pepy badges present.🤖 Generated with Claude Code