Audit randomly fails due to 503 (Yarn and NPM)

Hello,

I am using audit-ci in my CircleCI workflow (thank you for this package). I have a annoying issue: sometimes, the audit fails with the error:

Invocation of npm audit failed:
npm ERR! code ENOAUDIT
npm ERR! audit Your configured registry (https://registry.npmjs.org/) does not support audit requests.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/circleci/.npm/_logs/2019-04-03T14_57_17_893Z-debug.log
Exiting...

I understand this seems to be an error from NPM server and not audit-ci itself, however, I never encountered this error while running npm audit locally on the project.

This error is very random: sometimes it occurs 5 times in a row, sometimes it does not happen for days.

Did some of you stumble upon this issue? Do you know if we can implement some kind of retying mechanism in audit-ci to circumvent it?

Thank you

[quinnturner]

Released in v1.7.0

[mikkotikkanen]

Just chiming in that we have had this happen multiple times in different projects and different environments/OSs, so it’s definitely a thing. Always gets fixed by rerunning the task so retry mechanism would indeed be a great addition, especially if it just checks if the error is the one mentioned above (“does not support” & “npmjs.org”) -> try again.