[chef] Re: Re: Re: Cookbooks - Chef Supermarket - Downloads counter

[Christopher Webber < >]

I actually wrote about this recently and my response to the original never posted to the list because, apparently, email is hard.

https://www.chef.io/blog/2015/01/21/those-pesky-supermarket-download-counts/ is the post you will want to go take a look at.

Thanks!

— cwebber

On Feb 2, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Vincenzo D'Amore < " class=""> > wrote:

In about two weeks an empty cookbook have around 224,000 downloads 

I definitely think there is something wrong in the download counter.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank" class=""> > wrote:

On Jan 18, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Julian C. Dunn < " target="_blank" class=""> > wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Vincenzo D'Amore < " target="_blank" class=""> > wrote:
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>> does anyone know how works the number of downloads counter in the supermaket cookbook?
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>> Just to be clear, I have published few days ago an this empty cookbook:
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>> https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/empty
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>> now I see about 30k downloads (and counting), which are a little bit too many for an empty cookbook, isn't it?
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> I think it’s because every time Berkshelf hits the /universe endpoint to resolve dependencies, it increments the access count of all cookbooks.

Yep, also search bots and a lot of other things, but berks-api was the final nail in the coffin.

--Noah

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