HLTB rate limit (429) wipes confidence data in hl…

Todo: 9b9342ba

requirements.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 aiohttp==3.14.5
 bandit==1.9.4
 codespell==2.4.3
-coverage==7.17.0
+coverage==7.17.2
 earned-time @ git+https://github.com/kuhyx/utils@earned-time-v0.21.0#subdirectory=earned_time
 howlongtobeatpy==1.0.24
 leisure-watch @ git+https://github.com/kuhyx/leisure-watch@leisure-watch-v0.2.7
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ pre-commit==4.7.0
 pylint==4.1.3
 pytest==9.2.0
 pytest-cov==7.1.0
-pytest-randomly==5.0.0
+pytest-randomly==5.1.0
 pytest-sugar==1.1.1
 pytest-timeout==2.4.0
 pytest-xdist==3.8.0
 requests==2.34.2
-ruff==0.17.3
+ruff==0.17.4
 types-requests==2.33.0.20261030
 websockets==17.4

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_auth_refresh.py

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+"""Renew the HLTB auth token during a long, paced search batch.
+
+The token from ``/api/search/site/init`` stops working a few minutes after it
+is issued: on 2026-11-08 every search ~3 min in came back 403 while a fresh
+token got 200 for the same game. Unpaced batches finished before that; a
+paced ~800-game refresh takes 15+ min, so the token is renewed by age.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+import time
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_pacing import pause_after_request
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_api import _get_auth_info
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_one import _SearchCtx
+    from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import _AuthInfo
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Well inside the observed ~3 min lifetime (still valid at ~146 s).
+AUTH_MAX_AGE_S = 90.0
+# Indirection so tests can drive a fake clock.
+_now = time.monotonic
+
+
+def apply_auth(headers: dict[str, str], auth: _AuthInfo) -> None:
+    """Put *auth* into the search request headers, replacing any old values."""
+    headers["x-auth-token"] = auth.token
+    if auth.hp_key:
+        headers["x-hp-key"] = auth.hp_key
+        headers["x-hp-val"] = auth.hp_val
+    else:
+        headers.pop("x-hp-key", None)
+        headers.pop("x-hp-val", None)
+
+
+async def ensure_fresh_auth(ctx: _SearchCtx) -> str | None:
+    """Renew ``ctx.auth`` once it is too old.
+
+    Returns ``None`` when the auth is usable, else the failure reason. A
+    failed renewal trips the breaker: the stale token is never used again.
+    """
+    if _now() - ctx.auth_at < AUTH_MAX_AGE_S:
+        return None
+    async with ctx.auth_lock:
+        if _now() - ctx.auth_at < AUTH_MAX_AGE_S:
+            return None  # another lookup renewed it while we waited
+        failures: list[str] = []
+        auth = await _get_auth_info(ctx.search_url, ctx.session, failures)
+        await pause_after_request()
+        if auth is None:
+            ctx.breaker.tripped = True
+            return f"auth refresh {failures[0] if failures else 'no token'}"
+        ctx.auth = auth
+        apply_auth(ctx.headers, auth)
+        ctx.auth_at = _now()
+        logger.info("HLTB auth token refreshed.")
+        return None

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_cached.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging
 
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import HLTBUnavailableError
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import (
     ProgressCb,
     _HLTBExtras,
@@ -83,7 +84,11 @@ def fetch_hltb_times_cached(
         report = reporting_progress_cb(
             "Fetching HLTB times", len(uncached), progress_cb
         )
-        elapsed = fetch_hltb_times_timed(uncached, cache, polls, report, extras)
+        try:
+            elapsed = fetch_hltb_times_timed(uncached, cache, polls, report, extras)
+        except HLTBUnavailableError:
+            # Already logged and tallied by the batch; the cache is untouched.
+            return cache
 
         # Final save.
         save_hltb_cache(cache, polls, extras)

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_comp_extract.py

@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
 import aiohttp
 
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import (
+    detail_status_failed,
+    exc_reason,
+    record_failure,
+    status_reason,
+)
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_pacing import pause_after_request
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_page_parse import (
     _as_positive_int,
     _parse_game_page,
@@ -110,10 +117,16 @@ async def _fetch_detail_one(
                 if resp.status == HTTPStatus.OK:
                     html = await resp.text()
                     return _parse_game_page(html)
+                if not detail_status_failed(resp.status):
+                    return None  # no such page: a real answer, not a failure
+                reason = status_reason(resp.status)
         except (TimeoutError, aiohttp.ClientError) as exc:
-            logger.debug(
+            reason = exc_reason(exc)
-                "HLTB detail fetch failed for game_id=%d: %s",
+        finally:
-                hltb_game_id,
+            await pause_after_request()
-                exc,
+        # The caller keeps the cached hours when this returns None.
-            )
+        logger.warning(
+            "HLTB detail fetch failed for game_id=%d (%s)", hltb_game_id, reason
+        )
+        record_failure(f"detail {reason}")
     return None

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_confidence.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import logging
 import time
 
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_cached import reporting_progress_cb
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import HLTBUnavailableError
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import (
     HLTB_BASE_URL,
     ProgressCb,
@@ -38,28 +39,36 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 
-def refetch_poll_counts(missing: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, int]:
+def refresh_confidence(
-    """Re-search ``missing`` for poll counts and return the refreshed polls cache.
+    games: list[tuple[int, str]],
+) -> tuple[dict[int, float], dict[int, int], dict[int, int]]:
+    """Re-search ``games`` (cached or not) and save hours, polls and count_comp.
 
-    The search-level fetch skips anything already in the hours cache, so the
+    Nothing is dropped from the cache first: a failed lookup writes nothing,
-    hours entries are dropped first to force it -- then put back where the
+    so the old entry survives. Prior hours beat a clean miss, since a prior
-    refetch found nothing better, since a prior leisure/DLC estimate is
+    leisure/DLC estimate is trusted over "not found". When HLTB is unavailable
-    trusted over a miss.
+    the cache is returned unchanged and nothing is saved.
+
+    Returns:
+        The (hours, polls, count_comp) caches after the refresh.
     """
     cache = load_hltb_cache()
     polls = load_hltb_polls_cache()
-    preserved_hours = {aid: cache[aid] for aid, _ in missing if aid in cache}
+    count_comp = load_hltb_count_comp_cache()
-    for aid, _name in missing:
+    prior_hours = {aid: cache[aid] for aid, _ in games if aid in cache}
-        cache.pop(aid, None)
+    try:
-    save_hltb_cache(cache, polls)
+        fetch_hltb_confidence(games, cache=cache, polls=polls, count_comp=count_comp)
+    except HLTBUnavailableError:
+        # Already logged and tallied by the batch; the cache is untouched.
+        return cache, polls, count_comp
+    restore_prior_hours(cache, prior_hours)
+    save_hltb_cache(cache, polls, _HLTBExtras(count_comp=count_comp))
+    return cache, polls, count_comp
 
-    fetch_hltb_confidence_cached(missing)
 
-    refreshed_hours = load_hltb_cache()
+def refetch_poll_counts(missing: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, int]:
-    refreshed_polls = load_hltb_polls_cache()
+    """Re-search ``missing`` for poll counts and return the refreshed polls cache."""
-    restore_prior_hours(refreshed_hours, preserved_hours)
+    return refresh_confidence(missing)[1]
-    save_hltb_cache(refreshed_hours, refreshed_polls)
-    return refreshed_polls
 
 
 def fetch_hltb_confidence_cached(
@@ -79,15 +88,19 @@ def fetch_hltb_confidence_cached(
             len(games) - len(uncached),
         )
         t0 = time.monotonic()
-        fetch_hltb_confidence(
+        try:
-            uncached,
+            fetch_hltb_confidence(
-            cache=cache,
+                uncached,
-            polls=polls,
+                cache=cache,
-            progress_cb=reporting_progress_cb(
+                polls=polls,
-                "Fetching HLTB poll counts", len(uncached), progress_cb
+                progress_cb=reporting_progress_cb(
-            ),
+                    "Fetching HLTB poll counts", len(uncached), progress_cb
-            count_comp=count_comp,
+                ),
-        )
+                count_comp=count_comp,
+            )
+        except HLTBUnavailableError:
+            # Already logged and tallied by the batch; the cache is untouched.
+            return cache
         elapsed = time.monotonic() - t0
 
         save_hltb_cache(cache, polls, _HLTBExtras(count_comp=count_comp))
@@ -116,9 +129,9 @@ def fetch_hltb_detail_missing(
     Also backfills ``hltb_game_id`` for any game that already has rush/leisure
     data but whose HLTB game ID was never stored (e.g. from an old cache).
     Games with both rush data and a game_id are skipped entirely.  For the
-    rest, temporarily removes them from the hours cache so ``fetch_hltb_times``
+    rest, ``fetch_hltb_times`` re-searches them and visits their detail pages
-    will visit their detail pages.  Restores prior hours for any game the
+    (it never skips cached games).  Prior hours win over a clean miss; a failed
-    re-fetch doesn't find.
+    lookup writes nothing, so its old entry survives untouched.
 
     Args:
         games: list of (app_id, name) tuples to check.
@@ -152,10 +165,7 @@ def fetch_hltb_detail_missing(
         hltb_game_id=game_id_cache,
     )
 
-    # Remove from hours cache so fetch_hltb_times will visit the detail page.
+    prior_hours = {aid: cache[aid] for aid, _ in missing if aid in cache}
-    prior_hours: dict[int, float] = {}
-    for app_id, _ in missing:
-        prior_hours[app_id] = cache.pop(app_id, -1.0)
 
     n_rush = len(missing_rush)
     n_id = len(missing_id_only)
@@ -173,7 +183,11 @@ def fetch_hltb_detail_missing(
     else:
         logger.info("Backfilling HLTB game ID for %d game(s)...", n_id)
     report = reporting_progress_cb("Fetching HLTB details", len(missing), progress_cb)
-    elapsed = fetch_hltb_times_timed(missing, cache, polls, report, extras)
+    try:
+        elapsed = fetch_hltb_times_timed(missing, cache, polls, report, extras)
+    except HLTBUnavailableError:
+        # Already logged and tallied by the batch; the cache is untouched.
+        return 0
 
     restore_prior_hours(cache, prior_hours)
 
@@ -200,7 +214,11 @@ def get_hltb_submit_url(game_name: str) -> str | None:
         URL like ``https://howlongtobeat.com/submit/game/12345``,
         or ``None`` if the game wasn't found.
     """
-    results = fetch_hltb_times([(0, game_name)])
+    try:
+        results = fetch_hltb_times([(0, game_name)])
+    except HLTBUnavailableError:
+        # Already logged and tallied by the batch; the cache is untouched.
+        return None
     if results and results[0].hltb_game_id:
         return f"{HLTB_BASE_URL}/submit/game/{results[0].hltb_game_id}"
     return None

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_failures.py

@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+"""Failure accounting for HLTB lookups.
+
+A failed request (non-200, timeout, connection error, non-JSON body) is not
+evidence that a game is missing from HLTB, so the search path must keep the
+cached entry instead of writing a miss. This module tells the two apart, counts
+the failures for the end-of-run summary, and holds the per-batch circuit
+breaker that stops hammering HLTB once it starts rate-limiting us.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from collections import Counter
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from http import HTTPStatus
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from collections.abc import Iterable
+
+# Consecutive 429s/403s after which the command sends no more requests.
+BREAKER_LIMIT = 5
+_BLOCKED = frozenset({HTTPStatus.TOO_MANY_REQUESTS, HTTPStatus.FORBIDDEN})
+SKIPPED_AFTER_RATE_LIMIT = "skipped after rate-limit"
+# A detail page that does not exist is a real answer, not a failed lookup.
+_DETAIL_NOT_A_FAILURE = frozenset({HTTPStatus.OK, HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND})
+_PLURAL = {"timeout": "timeouts", "connection error": "connection errors"}
+
+
+class HLTBUnavailableError(RuntimeError):
+    """Nothing in an HLTB batch could be refreshed; the cache was left alone."""
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Breaker:
+    """Circuit breaker on consecutive HTTP 429 / 403 answers.
+
+    403 counts too: a rejected token fails every later request the same way,
+    and on 2026-11-08 one let 44 doomed requests through before a manual stop.
+    """
+
+    consecutive_blocked: int = 0
+    tripped: bool = False
+
+    def note(self, status: int | None) -> None:
+        """Record one request outcome (``None`` = no HTTP status at all)."""
+        if status in _BLOCKED:
+            self.consecutive_blocked += 1
+            if self.consecutive_blocked >= BREAKER_LIMIT:
+                self.tripped = True
+        else:
+            self.consecutive_blocked = 0
+
+
+@dataclass
+class _Tally:
+    """Failures since the last :func:`reset_failures` (one CLI command)."""
+
+    reasons: Counter[str] = field(default_factory=Counter)
+    # App ids, so a game skipped by several passes of one command counts once.
+    breaker_games: set[int] = field(default_factory=set)
+    fatal: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+    # Lookups that got a real answer (match or clean miss).
+    successes: int = 0
+    # Shared by every batch of the command: once HLTB rate-limits us, later
+    # batches must not start hammering it again.
+    breaker: Breaker = field(default_factory=Breaker)
+
+
+_TALLY = _Tally()
+
+
+def reset_failures() -> None:
+    """Start a fresh tally (call at the start of a command)."""
+    _TALLY.reasons.clear()
+    _TALLY.breaker_games.clear()
+    _TALLY.fatal.clear()
+    _TALLY.successes = 0
+    _TALLY.breaker = Breaker()
+
+
+def shared_breaker() -> Breaker:
+    """The command-wide circuit breaker (fresh after :func:`reset_failures`)."""
+    return _TALLY.breaker
+
+
+def record_success() -> None:
+    """Count one lookup that got a real answer from HLTB."""
+    _TALLY.successes += 1
+
+
+def record_failure(reason: str) -> None:
+    """Count one failed lookup under *reason*."""
+    _TALLY.reasons[reason] += 1
+
+
+def record_breaker(app_ids: Iterable[int]) -> None:
+    """Remember the games a tripped breaker left unrefreshed."""
+    _TALLY.breaker_games.update(app_ids)
+
+
+def record_fatal(message: str) -> None:
+    """Remember a batch that refreshed nothing at all."""
+    _TALLY.fatal.append(message)
+
+
+def had_total_failure() -> bool:
+    """True when some batch failed outright and no lookup at all succeeded."""
+    return bool(_TALLY.fatal) and not _TALLY.successes
+
+
+def status_reason(status: int) -> str:
+    """Label for a non-200 answer."""
+    return f"HTTP {status}"
+
+
+def exc_reason(exc: BaseException) -> str:
+    """Label for a request that raised instead of answering cleanly."""
+    if isinstance(exc, TimeoutError):
+        return "timeout"
+    if isinstance(exc, ValueError):  # json.JSONDecodeError and friends
+        return "bad JSON"
+    return "connection error"
+
+
+def detail_status_failed(status: int) -> bool:
+    """True when a detail-page answer is a failure rather than a real verdict."""
+    return status not in _DETAIL_NOT_A_FAILURE
+
+
+def _label(reason: str) -> str:
+    """Plural form for the summary (``detail timeout`` -> ``detail timeouts``)."""
+    for singular, plural in _PLURAL.items():
+        if reason.endswith(singular):
+            return reason[: -len(singular)] + plural
+    return reason
+
+
+def failure_summary_lines() -> list[str]:
+    """One-line summaries of every failure since the last reset (empty if none)."""
+    lines: list[str] = []
+    total = sum(_TALLY.reasons.values())
+    if total:
+        parts = ", ".join(
+            f"{_label(reason)} x{count}"
+            for reason, count in _TALLY.reasons.most_common()
+        )
+        lines.append(
+            f"HLTB: {total} lookups failed ({parts}), cache kept for those games"
+        )
+    if _TALLY.breaker_games:
+        n_games = len(_TALLY.breaker_games)
+        lines.append(f"HLTB: rate-limited, {n_games} games not refreshed")
+    lines.extend(dict.fromkeys(_TALLY.fatal))  # each batch's verdict once
+    return lines

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_pacing.py

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+"""Pacing for HLTB requests.
+
+HLTB answers 429 ("Slow your roll!") after about 60 requests in a minute:
+unpaced bursts and a 2 req/s run (2026-11-08) both stopped near 60. A full
+library refresh is ~800 games, so the single request slot
+(``MAX_CONCURRENT``) waits ``REQUEST_INTERVAL_S`` after every request before
+the next one goes out: about 55 requests per minute.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+
+REQUEST_INTERVAL_S = 1.1
+# Indirection so tests can drop the wait without touching asyncio itself.
+_sleep = asyncio.sleep
+
+
+async def pause_after_request() -> None:
+    """Hold the caller's request slot for the pacing interval."""
+    await _sleep(REQUEST_INTERVAL_S)

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_search.py

@@ -3,147 +3,76 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
-from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from http import HTTPStatus
 import logging
 
 import aiohttp
 
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_auth_refresh import apply_auth
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_detail import (
     _fetch_leisure_times,
 )
-from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_matching import (
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import (
-    _build_result_from_best,
+    SKIPPED_AFTER_RATE_LIMIT,
-    _build_search_variants,
+    HLTBUnavailableError,
+    record_breaker,
+    record_failure,
+    record_fatal,
+    shared_breaker,
+    status_reason,
 )
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_api import (
-    _build_search_payload,
-    _collect_candidates,
     _get_auth_info,
     _get_hltb_search_url,
-    _pick_best_hltb_entry,
     forget_hltb_search_url,
 )
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_one import _search_one, _SearchCtx
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import (
-    _SAVE_INTERVAL,
     MAX_CONCURRENT,
     HLTBResult,
     ProgressCb,
-    _AuthInfo,
     _HLTBExtras,
-    save_hltb_cache,
 )
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-# When extended entry has ≥ this many times more hours than the exact match,
-# prefer it even if its confidence count is lower.
-_EXTENDED_DOMINANCE_RATIO = 4.0
-# Minimum combined confidence for the dominance path (avoids picking entries
-# that have almost no data at all).
-_EXTENDED_MIN_CONFIDENCE = 3
-
-
-# ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# HLTB API setup (done once, not per-request like the library)
-# ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-
 # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 # Async fetching with shared session & progress
 # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 
-@dataclass
+def _fail_batch(message: str) -> HLTBUnavailableError:
-class _SearchCtx:
+    """Log and remember a batch that refreshed nothing; return the error."""
-    """Shared context for HLTB search requests."""
+    logger.warning("%s", message)
-
+    record_fatal(message)
-    session: aiohttp.ClientSession
+    return HLTBUnavailableError(message)
-    search_url: str
-    headers: dict[str, str]
-    cache: dict[int, float]
-    polls: dict[int, int] = field(default_factory=dict)
-    extras: _HLTBExtras = field(default_factory=_HLTBExtras)
-    auth: _AuthInfo | None = None
-    counter: dict[str, int] = field(default_factory=dict)
-    total: int = 0
-    progress_cb: ProgressCb | None = None
 
 
-async def _search_one(
+def _skip_rate_limited(games: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> HLTBUnavailableError:
-    sem: asyncio.Semaphore,
+    """Count a whole batch as not refreshed because the breaker already tripped."""
-    ctx: _SearchCtx,
+    for _game in games:
-    app_id: int,
+        record_failure(SKIPPED_AFTER_RATE_LIMIT)
-    name: str,
+    record_breaker(app_id for app_id, _name in games)
-) -> HLTBResult | None:
+    msg = f"HLTB: rate-limited, skipped {len(games)} lookups"
-    """Search HLTB for one game via direct POST, update cache."""
+    logger.warning("%s", msg)
-    async with sem:
+    return HLTBUnavailableError(msg)
-        result: HLTBResult | None = None
-        for query_name in _build_search_variants(name):
-            payload = _build_search_payload(query_name, ctx.auth)
-            try:
-                async with ctx.session.post(
-                    ctx.search_url,
-                    headers=ctx.headers,
-                    data=payload,
-                ) as resp:
-                    if resp.status != HTTPStatus.OK:
-                        continue
-                    data = await resp.json()
-                    candidates = _collect_candidates(query_name, data)
-                    # When we stripped ": subtitle" from the original name to
-                    # get query_name, only keep full-edition entries (those
-                    # whose HLTB name starts with query_name + ":"/"-") or
-                    # exact name/alias matches.  This prevents "Vox Populi"
-                    # (stripped from "Vox Populi: Poland 2023") from falsely
-                    # matching "Vox Populi Vox Dei 2".
-                    if ":" in name and ":" not in query_name:
-                        lower_q = query_name.lower()
-                        candidates = [
-                            (e, s)
-                            for e, s in candidates
-                            if (e.get("game_name") or "").lower() == lower_q
-                            or (e.get("game_alias") or "").lower() == lower_q
-                            or (e.get("game_name") or "")
-                            .lower()
-                            .startswith(lower_q + ":")
-                            or (e.get("game_name") or "")
-                            .lower()
-                            .startswith(lower_q + " -")
-                        ]
-                    best = _pick_best_hltb_entry(query_name, candidates)
-                    if best is None:
-                        continue
-                    result = _build_result_from_best(app_id, name, query_name, best)
-                    break
-            except (TimeoutError, aiohttp.ClientError) as exc:
-                logger.debug("HLTB search failed for '%s': %s", query_name, exc)
 
-        # Update cache immediately (miss = -1).
-        if result is not None:
-            ctx.cache[app_id] = result.completionist_hours
-            ctx.polls[app_id] = result.comp_100_count
-            ctx.extras.count_comp[app_id] = result.count_comp
-            if result.hltb_game_id > 0:
-                ctx.extras.hltb_game_id[app_id] = result.hltb_game_id
-            ctx.counter["found"] += 1
-        else:
-            ctx.cache[app_id] = -1
-            ctx.polls[app_id] = 0
-            ctx.extras.count_comp[app_id] = 0
 
-        ctx.counter["done"] += 1
+def _check_batch(ctx: _SearchCtx) -> None:
-        done = ctx.counter["done"]
+    """Report a batch's failures; raise when not a single lookup succeeded."""
-
+    failed = ctx.counter["failed"]
-        # Incremental save every _SAVE_INTERVAL lookups.
+    if not failed:
-        if not done % _SAVE_INTERVAL:
+        return
-            save_hltb_cache(ctx.cache, ctx.polls, ctx.extras)
+    logger.warning(
-
+        "HLTB: %d/%d lookups failed in this batch; cache kept for them",
-        # Report progress.
+        failed,
-        if ctx.progress_cb is not None:
+        ctx.total,
-            ctx.progress_cb(done, ctx.total, ctx.counter["found"], name)
+    )
-
+    if ctx.breaker.tripped:
-        return result
+        record_breaker(ctx.failed_ids)
+    if failed == ctx.total:
+        msg = f"HLTB: all {failed} lookups failed, nothing refreshed"
+        raise _fail_batch(msg)
 
 
 async def _search_batch(
@@ -157,7 +86,16 @@ async def _search_batch(
 
     Hours, poll counts and the extras come from the search results alone;
     :func:`_fetch_batch` layers the per-game detail pages on top of this.
+
+    Raises:
+        HLTBUnavailableError: auth init failed, or every lookup failed. The
+            caches are untouched in both cases.
     """
+    if not games:
+        return []
+    breaker = shared_breaker()
+    if breaker.tripped:
+        raise _skip_rate_limited(games)
     # 1. Discover the search URL (sync, one-time).
     search_url = _get_hltb_search_url()
     logger.info("HLTB search URL: %s", search_url)
@@ -165,12 +103,16 @@ async def _search_batch(
     timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=20, sock_read=15)
 
     # 2. Get auth info (separate session — avoids reuse issues).
+    auth_failures: list[str] = []
     async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout) as init_session:
-        auth = await _get_auth_info(search_url, init_session)
+        auth = await _get_auth_info(search_url, init_session, auth_failures)
     if auth is None:
-        logger.warning("Could not get HLTB auth info, aborting fetch.")
         forget_hltb_search_url()
-        return []
+        why = auth_failures[0] if auth_failures else "no token"
+        if why == status_reason(HTTPStatus.TOO_MANY_REQUESTS):
+            breaker.tripped = True
+        msg = f"HLTB: rate-limited, nothing refreshed (auth init: {why})"
+        raise _fail_batch(msg)
     logger.info("HLTB auth token acquired.")
 
     # 3. Build shared headers for all search requests.
@@ -181,11 +123,8 @@ async def _search_batch(
             "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0"
         ),
         "referer": "https://howlongtobeat.com/",
-        "x-auth-token": auth.token,
     }
-    if auth.hp_key:
+    apply_auth(headers, auth)
-        headers["x-hp-key"] = auth.hp_key
-        headers["x-hp-val"] = auth.hp_val
 
     # 4. Fire all searches through a single persistent session.
     sem = asyncio.Semaphore(MAX_CONCURRENT)
@@ -205,12 +144,14 @@ async def _search_batch(
             polls=polls,
             extras=extras,
             auth=auth,
-            counter={"done": 0, "found": 0},
+            counter={"done": 0, "found": 0, "failed": 0},
             total=len(games),
             progress_cb=progress_cb,
+            breaker=breaker,
         )
         tasks = [_search_one(sem, ctx, app_id, name) for app_id, name in games]
         results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+    _check_batch(ctx)
 
     return [r for r in results if r is not None]
 

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_search_api.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ from typing import Any
 import aiohttp
 from howlongtobeatpy.HTMLRequests import HTMLRequests
 
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import exc_reason, status_reason
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_matching import (
     _find_best_extended,
     _find_exact_match,
@@ -91,14 +92,20 @@ def forget_hltb_search_url() -> None:
 async def _get_auth_info(
     search_url: str,
     session: aiohttp.ClientSession,
+    failures: list[str] | None = None,
 ) -> _AuthInfo | None:
-    """Fetch the HLTB auth token and honeypot key/val (one GET request)."""
+    """Fetch the HLTB auth token and honeypot key/val (one GET request).
+
+    On failure returns ``None`` and, when *failures* is given, appends why
+    (``HTTP 429``, ``timeout``, ...) so the caller can report it.
+    """
     init_url = search_url + "/init"
     ts = int(time.time() * 1000)
     headers = {
         "User-Agent": _USER_AGENT,
         "referer": "https://howlongtobeat.com/",
     }
+    reason = "no token"
     try:
         async with session.get(
             init_url,
@@ -108,15 +115,19 @@ async def _get_auth_info(
             if resp.status == HTTPStatus.OK:
                 data = await resp.json()
                 token: str | None = data.get("token")
-                if token is None:
+                if token is not None:
-                    return None
+                    return _AuthInfo(
-                return _AuthInfo(
+                        token=token,
-                    token=token,
+                        hp_key=data.get("hpKey", ""),
-                    hp_key=data.get("hpKey", ""),
+                        hp_val=data.get("hpVal", ""),
-                    hp_val=data.get("hpVal", ""),
+                    )
-                )
+            else:
-    except TimeoutError, aiohttp.ClientError:
+                reason = status_reason(resp.status)
-        logger.warning("Failed to get HLTB auth token")
+    except (TimeoutError, aiohttp.ClientError, ValueError) as exc:
+        reason = exc_reason(exc)
+    logger.warning("Failed to get HLTB auth token (%s)", reason)
+    if failures is not None:
+        failures.append(reason)
     return None
 
 

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_search_one.py

@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+"""One HLTB game lookup: query each name variant, classify, write the cache.
+
+Split out of :mod:`steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search` to keep both files
+under the 250-line cap. A failed request never writes a miss: only a lookup
+whose every variant answered a clean 200 with nothing usable does.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from http import HTTPStatus
+import logging
+import time
+from typing import Any
+
+import aiohttp
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_auth_refresh import ensure_fresh_auth
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import (
+    SKIPPED_AFTER_RATE_LIMIT,
+    Breaker,
+    exc_reason,
+    record_failure,
+    record_success,
+    status_reason,
+)
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_matching import (
+    _build_result_from_best,
+    _build_search_variants,
+)
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_pacing import pause_after_request
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_api import (
+    _build_search_payload,
+    _collect_candidates,
+    _pick_best_hltb_entry,
+)
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import (
+    _SAVE_INTERVAL,
+    HLTBResult,
+    ProgressCb,
+    _AuthInfo,
+    _HLTBExtras,
+    save_hltb_cache,
+)
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class _SearchCtx:
+    """Shared context for HLTB search requests."""
+
+    session: aiohttp.ClientSession
+    search_url: str
+    headers: dict[str, str]
+    cache: dict[int, float]
+    polls: dict[int, int] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    extras: _HLTBExtras = field(default_factory=_HLTBExtras)
+    auth: _AuthInfo | None = None
+    counter: dict[str, int] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    total: int = 0
+    progress_cb: ProgressCb | None = None
+    breaker: Breaker = field(default_factory=Breaker)
+    # When ``auth`` was issued (monotonic) and the lock for renewing it.
+    auth_at: float = field(default_factory=time.monotonic)
+    auth_lock: asyncio.Lock = field(default_factory=asyncio.Lock)
+    # Games whose lookup failed (the breaker reports them by id).
+    failed_ids: set[int] = field(default_factory=set)
+    # Only flush incrementally once something was actually written.
+    dirty: bool = False
+
+
+_Best = tuple[dict[str, Any], float]
+
+
+def _full_edition_candidates(
+    name: str, query_name: str, candidates: list[_Best]
+) -> list[_Best]:
+    """Drop unrelated entries when ``query_name`` is ``name`` minus a subtitle.
+
+    When we stripped ": subtitle" from the original name to get query_name,
+    only keep full-edition entries (those whose HLTB name starts with
+    query_name + ":"/"-") or exact name/alias matches.  This prevents "Vox
+    Populi" (stripped from "Vox Populi: Poland 2023") from falsely matching
+    "Vox Populi Vox Dei 2".
+    """
+    if ":" not in name or ":" in query_name:
+        return candidates
+    lower_q = query_name.lower()
+    kept: list[_Best] = []
+    for entry, sim in candidates:
+        game_name = (entry.get("game_name") or "").lower()
+        alias = (entry.get("game_alias") or "").lower()
+        if lower_q in {game_name, alias} or game_name.startswith(
+            (lower_q + ":", lower_q + " -")
+        ):
+            kept.append((entry, sim))
+    return kept
+
+
+async def _query_variant(
+    ctx: _SearchCtx, name: str, query_name: str
+) -> tuple[_Best | None, str | None]:
+    """Run one search variant.
+
+    Returns ``(best, None)`` on a match, ``(None, None)`` on a clean 200 with
+    no usable entry, and ``(None, reason)`` when the request itself failed.
+    """
+    payload = _build_search_payload(query_name, ctx.auth)
+    try:
+        async with ctx.session.post(
+            ctx.search_url, headers=ctx.headers, data=payload
+        ) as resp:
+            ctx.breaker.note(resp.status)
+            if resp.status != HTTPStatus.OK:
+                return None, status_reason(resp.status)
+            data = await resp.json()
+    except (TimeoutError, aiohttp.ClientError, ValueError) as exc:
+        ctx.breaker.note(None)
+        return None, exc_reason(exc)
+    finally:
+        await pause_after_request()
+    if not isinstance(data, dict):
+        return None, "bad JSON"
+    candidates = _full_edition_candidates(
+        name, query_name, _collect_candidates(query_name, data)
+    )
+    return _pick_best_hltb_entry(query_name, candidates), None
+
+
+def _record_outcome(
+    ctx: _SearchCtx, app_id: int, result: HLTBResult | None, failure: str | None
+) -> None:
+    """Write a match or a clean miss; a failed lookup keeps the old entry."""
+    if result is not None:
+        ctx.cache[app_id] = result.completionist_hours
+        ctx.polls[app_id] = result.comp_100_count
+        ctx.extras.count_comp[app_id] = result.count_comp
+        if result.hltb_game_id > 0:
+            ctx.extras.hltb_game_id[app_id] = result.hltb_game_id
+        ctx.counter["found"] += 1
+        ctx.dirty = True
+        record_success()
+    elif failure is not None:
+        ctx.counter["failed"] += 1
+        ctx.failed_ids.add(app_id)
+        record_failure(failure)
+    else:
+        # Every variant answered cleanly with nothing usable: a real miss.
+        ctx.cache[app_id] = -1
+        ctx.polls[app_id] = 0
+        ctx.extras.count_comp[app_id] = 0
+        ctx.dirty = True
+        record_success()
+
+
+async def _search_one(
+    sem: asyncio.Semaphore,
+    ctx: _SearchCtx,
+    app_id: int,
+    name: str,
+) -> HLTBResult | None:
+    """Search HLTB for one game via direct POST, update cache."""
+    async with sem:
+        result: HLTBResult | None = None
+        failure: str | None = None
+        for query_name in _build_search_variants(name):
+            if ctx.breaker.tripped:
+                failure = failure or SKIPPED_AFTER_RATE_LIMIT
+                break
+            auth_failure = await ensure_fresh_auth(ctx)
+            if auth_failure is not None:
+                failure = failure or auth_failure
+                break
+            best, reason = await _query_variant(ctx, name, query_name)
+            if best is not None:
+                result = _build_result_from_best(app_id, name, query_name, best)
+                break
+            failure = failure or reason
+        if result is None and failure not in {None, SKIPPED_AFTER_RATE_LIMIT}:
+            logger.warning(
+                "HLTB lookup failed for '%s' (%s), cache kept", name, failure
+            )
+        _record_outcome(ctx, app_id, result, failure)
+
+        ctx.counter["done"] += 1
+        done = ctx.counter["done"]
+
+        # Incremental save every _SAVE_INTERVAL lookups.
+        if ctx.dirty and not done % _SAVE_INTERVAL:
+            save_hltb_cache(ctx.cache, ctx.polls, ctx.extras)
+
+        # Report progress.
+        if ctx.progress_cb is not None:
+            ctx.progress_cb(done, ctx.total, ctx.counter["found"], name)
+
+        return result

steam_backlog_enforcer/_hltb_types.py

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ from steam_backlog_enforcer.config import CONFIG_DIR, _atomic_write
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 HLTB_CACHE_FILE = CONFIG_DIR / "hltb_cache.json"
-MAX_CONCURRENT = 60  # parallel requests to HLTB
+# Requests in flight to HLTB; each slot is paced by _hltb_pacing.
+MAX_CONCURRENT = 1
 _SAVE_INTERVAL = 50  # flush cache to disk every N results
 MIN_SIMILARITY = 0.5
 HLTB_BASE_URL = "https://howlongtobeat.com"

steam_backlog_enforcer/_scanning_confidence.py

@@ -5,14 +5,10 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import logging
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence import fetch_hltb_confidence_cached
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence import refresh_confidence
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import (
-    _HLTBExtras,
-    load_hltb_cache,
     load_hltb_count_comp_cache,
     load_hltb_polls_cache,
-    restore_prior_hours,
-    save_hltb_cache,
 )
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._polls_reporting import (
     _backfill_polls_for_finished,
@@ -105,27 +101,8 @@ def _refresh_candidate_confidence_batch(
     else:
         _echo(f"  Refreshing HLTB confidence for {len(refresh_slice)} candidate(s)...")
 
-    cache = load_hltb_cache()
+    _, refreshed_polls, refreshed_count_comp = refresh_confidence(
-    polls = load_hltb_polls_cache()
+        [(game.app_id, game.name) for game in refresh_slice]
-    count_comp = load_hltb_count_comp_cache()
-    app_ids = [game.app_id for game in refresh_slice]
-    names = [(game.app_id, game.name) for game in refresh_slice]
-    prior_hours = {aid: cache.get(aid, -1) for aid in app_ids}
-
-    for aid in app_ids:
-        cache.pop(aid, None)
-        polls.pop(aid, None)
-        count_comp.pop(aid, None)
-    save_hltb_cache(cache, polls, _HLTBExtras(count_comp=count_comp))
-
-    fetch_hltb_confidence_cached(names)
-
-    refreshed_hours = load_hltb_cache()
-    refreshed_polls = load_hltb_polls_cache()
-    refreshed_count_comp = load_hltb_count_comp_cache()
-    restore_prior_hours(refreshed_hours, prior_hours)
-    save_hltb_cache(
-        refreshed_hours, refreshed_polls, _HLTBExtras(count_comp=refreshed_count_comp)
     )
 
     for game in refresh_slice:

steam_backlog_enforcer/_stats.py

@@ -3,8 +3,14 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging
+import sys
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import (
+    failure_summary_lines,
+    had_total_failure,
+    reset_failures,
+)
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import (
     _read_raw_cache,
 )
@@ -131,7 +137,22 @@ def cmd_stats(_config: Config, state: State) -> None:
     3. Leisure — comp_100_h (slowest 100 %) + DLC leisure per HLTB.
     4. Worst   — absolute maximum recorded time (any category) per HLTB.
     5. Your play style — extrapolated from completed-game calibration vs HLTB.
+
+    Ends with one line per kind of HLTB failure (the cache is kept for those
+    games) and exits 1 when some HLTB batch refreshed nothing at all.
     """
+    reset_failures()
+    try:
+        _print_stats(_config, state)
+    finally:
+        for line in failure_summary_lines():
+            _echo(line)
+    if had_total_failure():
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+
+def _print_stats(_config: Config, state: State) -> None:
+    """Gather the stats data and print every scenario for :func:`cmd_stats`."""
     games = require_snapshot_games()
     if games is None:
         return

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/_hltb_fake_transport.py

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+"""Fake aiohttp transport for HLTB search tests: no request leaves the process."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from typing import Any, Self
+
+MATCH = {
+    "data": [
+        {
+            "game_name": "Vox Populi",
+            "game_alias": "",
+            "game_type": "game",
+            "game_id": 77,
+            "comp_100": 36000,
+            "comp_100_count": 42,
+            "count_comp": 300,
+        }
+    ]
+}
+NO_MATCH: dict[str, Any] = {"data": []}
+
+
+class FakeResp:
+    """Minimal aiohttp response stand-in."""
+
+    def __init__(self, status: int, body: dict[str, Any] | None = None) -> None:
+        """Store the canned status and JSON body (``None`` = not JSON)."""
+        self.status = status
+        self._body = body
+
+    async def __aenter__(self) -> Self:
+        """Enter."""
+        return self
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, *args: object) -> None:
+        """Exit."""
+
+    async def json(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        """Return the body, or fail like a garbage payload would."""
+        if self._body is None:
+            msg = "Expecting value"
+            raise json.JSONDecodeError(msg, "<html>", 0)
+        return self._body
+
+
+class FakeSession:
+    """Fake session routing each search POST by its first search term."""
+
+    def __init__(self, routes: dict[str, object]) -> None:
+        """Map a query's first word to a _Resp or an exception to raise."""
+        self.routes = routes
+        self.posts: list[str] = []
+
+    def post(self, _url: str, *, headers: object, data: str) -> FakeResp:
+        """Return (or raise) the canned outcome for this query."""
+        del headers
+        terms = json.loads(data)["searchTerms"]
+        query = " ".join(terms)
+        self.posts.append(query)
+        outcome = self.routes.get(query, self.routes.get("*"))
+        if isinstance(outcome, BaseException):
+            raise outcome
+        assert isinstance(outcome, FakeResp)
+        return outcome
+
+
+class FakeInitSession:
+    """Fake ClientSession: GET /init answers ``status``; POSTs use ``routes``."""
+
+    def __init__(self, status: int | BaseException, routes: dict[str, object]) -> None:
+        """Store the canned init outcome and search routes."""
+        self.status = status
+        self.search = FakeSession(routes)
+        self.gets = 0
+
+    async def __aenter__(self) -> Self:
+        """Enter."""
+        return self
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, *args: object) -> None:
+        """Exit."""
+
+    def get(self, *_a: object, **_k: object) -> FakeResp:
+        """Answer the auth init."""
+        self.gets += 1
+        if isinstance(self.status, BaseException):
+            raise self.status
+        return FakeResp(self.status, {"token": "tok"})
+
+    def post(self, url: str, *, headers: object, data: str) -> FakeResp:
+        """Delegate searches."""
+        return self.search.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/_isolate_control_plane.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import pytest
 
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import reset_failures
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_api import forget_hltb_search_url
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -65,16 +66,8 @@ def _isolate_cover_art(tmp_path: Path) -> Iterator[None]:
         yield
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+async def _no_pause(_seconds: float) -> None:
-def _forget_hltb_search_url() -> Iterator[None]:
+    """Stand-in for the HLTB pacing sleep."""
-    """Start every test without a remembered HLTB search endpoint.
-
-    ``_get_hltb_search_url`` memoises a discovered URL for half an hour; a
-    value left behind by one test would hide the discovery path in the next.
-    """
-    forget_hltb_search_url()
-    yield
-    forget_hltb_search_url()
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
@@ -83,7 +76,13 @@ def _forget_hltb_search_url() -> Iterator[None]:
 
     ``_get_hltb_search_url`` memoises a discovered URL for half an hour; a
     value left behind by one test would hide the discovery path in the next.
+    The HLTB failure tally and its shared circuit breaker are reset too: a
+    breaker tripped by one test would make the next one skip every lookup.
+    The per-request HLTB pacing pause is dropped so tests never wait on it.
     """
     forget_hltb_search_url()
-    yield
+    reset_failures()
+    with patch("steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_pacing._sleep", _no_pause):
+        yield
     forget_hltb_search_url()
+    reset_failures()

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb.py

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock, patch
 import aiohttp
 
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_matching import _similarity
-from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search import _AuthInfo
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_api import _get_auth_info, _get_hltb_search_url
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import (
+    _AuthInfo,
     load_hltb_cache,
     save_hltb_cache,
 )

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_auth_refresh.py

@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+"""A long paced batch renews the HLTB token before it expires.
+
+Seen 2026-11-08: at ~55 requests/min every search ~3 min after /init came
+back 403 while a fresh token got 200 for the same game. Fake transport and a
+fake clock only: no request leaves the process and nothing sleeps.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import json
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Self, cast
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer import _hltb_auth_refresh
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import (
+    BREAKER_LIMIT,
+    SKIPPED_AFTER_RATE_LIMIT,
+    Breaker,
+    failure_summary_lines,
+)
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_one import _search_one, _SearchCtx
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import _AuthInfo
+from steam_backlog_enforcer.tests._hltb_fake_transport import MATCH, FakeResp
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import aiohttp
+
+_AGE = _hltb_auth_refresh.AUTH_MAX_AGE_S
+
+
+class _RotatingSession:
+    """Fake session: each /init GET hands out a new token; POSTs record auth."""
+
+    def __init__(self, init_status: int = 200, post_status: int = 200) -> None:
+        self.init_status = init_status
+        self.post_status = post_status
+        self.gets = 0
+        # (x-auth-token header, honeypot value in the body) per POST.
+        self.posts: list[tuple[str | None, str | None]] = []
+
+    def get(self, *_a: object, **_k: object) -> FakeResp:
+        self.gets += 1
+        n = self.gets
+        return FakeResp(
+            self.init_status, {"token": f"tok{n}", "hpKey": "hp", "hpVal": f"v{n}"}
+        )
+
+    def post(self, _url: str, *, headers: dict[str, str], data: str) -> FakeResp:
+        self.posts.append((headers.get("x-auth-token"), json.loads(data).get("hp")))
+        body = MATCH if self.post_status == 200 else None
+        return FakeResp(self.post_status, body)
+
+    async def __aenter__(self) -> Self:
+        return self
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, *args: object) -> None:
+        pass
+
+
+class _ListBodySession(_RotatingSession):
+    """Fake session whose searches answer 200 with a JSON list, not an object."""
+
+    def post(self, _url: str, *, headers: dict[str, str], data: str) -> FakeResp:
+        del headers, data
+        return FakeResp(200, cast("dict[str, object]", []))
+
+
+class _Clock:
+    """Fake monotonic clock advanced by the test."""
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.t = 1000.0
+
+    def __call__(self) -> float:
+        return self.t
+
+
+def _ctx(session: _RotatingSession, clock: _Clock) -> _SearchCtx:
+    return _SearchCtx(
+        session=cast("aiohttp.ClientSession", session),
+        search_url="https://example.invalid/api/finder",
+        headers={"x-auth-token": "tok0", "x-hp-key": "hp", "x-hp-val": "v0"},
+        cache={},
+        auth=_AuthInfo("tok0", "hp", "v0"),
+        counter={"done": 0, "found": 0, "failed": 0},
+        breaker=Breaker(),
+        auth_at=clock.t,
+    )
+
+
+def _lookups(ctx: _SearchCtx, clock: _Clock, steps: list[float]) -> None:
+    """Run one lookup per step, advancing the clock by that many seconds first."""
+
+    async def run() -> None:
+        sem = asyncio.Semaphore(1)
+        for i, step in enumerate(steps):
+            clock.t += step
+            await _search_one(sem, ctx, i + 1, "Vox Populi")
+
+    with patch.object(_hltb_auth_refresh, "_now", clock):
+        asyncio.run(run())
+
+
+def test_young_token_is_not_refreshed() -> None:
+    """Within the max age no extra /init request is made."""
+    session, clock = _RotatingSession(), _Clock()
+    _lookups(_ctx(session, clock), clock, [0, _AGE / 2])
+    assert session.gets == 0
+    assert session.posts == [("tok0", "v0"), ("tok0", "v0")]
+
+
+def test_aged_token_is_refreshed_into_headers_and_body() -> None:
+    """Past the max age the next POST carries the new token and honeypot."""
+    session, clock = _RotatingSession(), _Clock()
+    ctx = _ctx(session, clock)
+    _lookups(ctx, clock, [0, _AGE + 1])
+    assert session.gets == 1
+    assert session.posts == [("tok0", "v0"), ("tok1", "v1")]
+    assert ctx.auth == _AuthInfo("tok1", "hp", "v1")
+
+
+def test_one_refresh_per_elapsed_interval() -> None:
+    """Many lookups inside one interval share a single refresh."""
+    session, clock = _RotatingSession(), _Clock()
+    _lookups(_ctx(session, clock), clock, [_AGE + 1, 1, 1, 1, _AGE + 1, 1])
+    assert session.gets == 2
+    assert [tok for tok, _hp in session.posts] == [
+        "tok1",
+        "tok1",
+        "tok1",
+        "tok1",
+        "tok2",
+        "tok2",
+    ]
+
+
+def test_failed_refresh_stops_sending_and_trips_the_breaker() -> None:
+    """A refresh that gets 429 never falls back to the stale token."""
+    session, clock = _RotatingSession(init_status=429), _Clock()
+    ctx = _ctx(session, clock)
+    _lookups(ctx, clock, [_AGE + 1, 1, 1])
+    assert session.gets == 1
+    assert session.posts == []
+    assert ctx.breaker.tripped
+    assert ctx.counter["failed"] == 3
+    summary = failure_summary_lines()[0]
+    assert "auth refresh HTTP 429 x1" in summary
+    assert f"{SKIPPED_AFTER_RATE_LIMIT} x2" in summary
+
+
+def test_consecutive_403s_trip_the_breaker() -> None:
+    """A rejected token cannot turn into hundreds of doomed requests."""
+    session, clock = _RotatingSession(post_status=403), _Clock()
+    ctx = _ctx(session, clock)
+    _lookups(ctx, clock, [0] * (BREAKER_LIMIT + 3))
+    assert len(session.posts) == BREAKER_LIMIT
+    assert ctx.breaker.tripped
+    assert ctx.counter["failed"] == BREAKER_LIMIT + 3
+
+
+def test_concurrent_lookups_share_one_refresh() -> None:
+    """A lookup that waited on the lock reuses the token renewed meanwhile."""
+    session, clock = _RotatingSession(), _Clock()
+    ctx = _ctx(session, clock)
+    clock.t += _AGE + 1
+
+    async def yielding_pause(_seconds: float) -> None:
+        await asyncio.sleep(0)  # let the other lookup reach the lock
+
+    async def run() -> list[str | None]:
+        return list(
+            await asyncio.gather(
+                _hltb_auth_refresh.ensure_fresh_auth(ctx),
+                _hltb_auth_refresh.ensure_fresh_auth(ctx),
+            )
+        )
+
+    with (
+        patch.object(_hltb_auth_refresh, "_now", clock),
+        patch("steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_pacing._sleep", yielding_pause),
+    ):
+        assert asyncio.run(run()) == [None, None]
+    assert session.gets == 1
+
+
+def test_non_object_json_is_a_failure() -> None:
+    """A 200 whose body is not a JSON object is "bad JSON", never a miss."""
+    session, clock = _ListBodySession(), _Clock()
+    ctx = _ctx(session, clock)
+    ctx.cache[1] = 50.0
+    _lookups(ctx, clock, [0])
+    assert ctx.cache[1] == 50.0
+    assert "bad JSON x1" in failure_summary_lines()[0]

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_build_search_payload.py

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json
 
-from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search import _AuthInfo
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_api import _build_search_payload
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import _AuthInfo
 
 
 class TestBuildSearchPayload:

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_confidence_failure_paths.py

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+"""A failed HLTB batch leaves every cached entry point's cache alone.
+
+No network: the batch functions are faked at the module boundary.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer import _hltb_cached, _hltb_confidence
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import HLTBUnavailableError
+
+_CONF = "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence"
+_DOWN = HLTBUnavailableError("HLTB: rate-limited, nothing refreshed")
+
+
+def _found(
+    games: list[tuple[int, str]],
+    cache: dict[int, float],
+    polls: dict[int, int],
+    count_comp: dict[int, int],
+    **_kw: object,
+) -> list[object]:
+    """Fake search that finds every game."""
+    for aid, _name in games:
+        cache[aid], polls[aid], count_comp[aid] = 5.0, 7, 40
+    return []
+
+
+def test_cached_fetch_saves_new_results() -> None:
+    """Uncached games are searched and the result is saved."""
+    with (
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence", side_effect=_found),
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.save_hltb_cache") as save,
+    ):
+        result = _hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached([(1, "Celeste")])
+    assert result == {1: 5.0}
+    save.assert_called_once()
+
+
+def test_cached_fetch_keeps_cache_when_hltb_is_down() -> None:
+    """An unavailable batch returns the cache as loaded and saves nothing."""
+    with (
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.load_hltb_cache", return_value={2: 9.0}),
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence", side_effect=_DOWN),
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.save_hltb_cache") as save,
+    ):
+        result = _hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached([(1, "Celeste")])
+    assert result == {2: 9.0}
+    save.assert_not_called()
+
+
+def test_detail_missing_reports_nothing_fetched_when_hltb_is_down() -> None:
+    """The detail backfill returns 0 and writes nothing when HLTB is down."""
+    with (
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_times_timed", side_effect=_DOWN),
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.save_hltb_cache") as save,
+    ):
+        assert _hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_detail_missing([(1, "Celeste")]) == 0
+    save.assert_not_called()
+
+
+def test_submit_url_is_none_when_hltb_is_down() -> None:
+    """No URL instead of a crash when the lookup cannot run."""
+    with patch(f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_times", side_effect=_DOWN):
+        assert _hltb_confidence.get_hltb_submit_url("Celeste") is None
+
+
+def test_refresh_keeps_cache_when_hltb_is_down() -> None:
+    """A re-search that cannot run returns the loaded caches and saves nothing."""
+    with (
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.load_hltb_cache", return_value={1: 9.0}),
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.load_hltb_polls_cache", return_value={1: 30}),
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.load_hltb_count_comp_cache", return_value={1: 80}),
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence", side_effect=_DOWN),
+        patch(f"{_CONF}.save_hltb_cache") as save,
+    ):
+        result = _hltb_confidence.refresh_confidence([(1, "Celeste")])
+    assert result == ({1: 9.0}, {1: 30}, {1: 80})
+    save.assert_not_called()
+
+
+def test_times_cached_keeps_cache_when_hltb_is_down() -> None:
+    """The times fetch returns the cache as loaded and saves nothing."""
+    cached = "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_cached"
+    with (
+        patch(f"{cached}.load_hltb_cache", return_value={2: 9.0}),
+        patch(f"{cached}.fetch_hltb_times_timed", side_effect=_DOWN),
+        patch(f"{cached}.save_hltb_cache") as save,
+    ):
+        result = _hltb_cached.fetch_hltb_times_cached([(1, "Celeste")])
+    assert result == {2: 9.0}
+    save.assert_not_called()

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_confidence_helpers.py

@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ import asyncio
 from typing import Self
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
+import pytest
+
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence import fetch_hltb_confidence_cached
-from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search import _AuthInfo
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import HLTBUnavailableError
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import _AuthInfo
 from steam_backlog_enforcer.hltb import (
     _fetch_batch_confidence_only,
     fetch_hltb_confidence,
@@ -39,11 +42,9 @@ class TestConfidenceHelpers:
             patch(f"{PKG}.aiohttp.TCPConnector"),
             patch(f"{PKG}._get_hltb_search_url", return_value="https://example"),
             patch(f"{PKG}._get_auth_info", return_value=None),
+            pytest.raises(HLTBUnavailableError, match="nothing refreshed"),
         ):
-            result = asyncio.run(
+            asyncio.run(_fetch_batch_confidence_only([(1, "Game")], {}, {}, None))
-                _fetch_batch_confidence_only([(1, "Game")], {}, {}, None),
-            )
-        assert result == []
 
     def test_fetch_batch_confidence_only_handles_empty_hp_and_default_counts(
         self,

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_failure_reporting.py

@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+"""Detail-page failures are counted; ``stats`` prints the tally and fails loud."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+from typing import Self
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
+
+import aiohttp
+import pytest
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer import _stats
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_comp_extract import _fetch_detail_one
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import (
+    failure_summary_lines,
+    record_failure,
+    record_fatal,
+    record_success,
+    reset_failures,
+)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _fresh_tally() -> None:
+    reset_failures()
+
+
+class _Page:
+    """Fake detail-page response."""
+
+    def __init__(self, status: int) -> None:
+        """Store the status."""
+        self.status = status
+
+    async def __aenter__(self) -> Self:
+        """Enter."""
+        return self
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, *args: object) -> None:
+        """Exit."""
+
+    async def text(self) -> str:
+        """Empty page."""
+        return ""
+
+
+def _detail(outcome: object) -> None:
+    session = MagicMock()
+    if isinstance(outcome, BaseException):
+        session.get.side_effect = outcome
+    else:
+        session.get.return_value = outcome
+    asyncio.run(_fetch_detail_one(asyncio.Semaphore(1), session, 77))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("outcome", "label"),
+    [
+        (_Page(429), "detail HTTP 429"),
+        (_Page(500), "detail HTTP 500"),
+        (TimeoutError(), "detail timeouts"),
+        (aiohttp.ClientConnectionError(), "detail connection errors"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_detail_failure_is_counted(outcome: object, label: str) -> None:
+    """A failed detail fetch shows up in the summary line."""
+    _detail(outcome)
+    assert f"{label} x1" in failure_summary_lines()[0]
+
+
+def test_missing_detail_page_is_not_a_failure() -> None:
+    """A 404 is HLTB's real answer, not a failed lookup."""
+    _detail(_Page(404))
+    assert failure_summary_lines() == []
+
+
+def _stats_with(effect: object) -> None:
+    with patch.object(_stats, "_print_stats", side_effect=effect):
+        _stats.cmd_stats(MagicMock(), MagicMock())
+
+
+def test_stats_ends_with_failure_line_and_exits_zero(
+    capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str],
+) -> None:
+    """Old data survived: report the failures, exit 0."""
+    _stats_with(lambda *_a: record_failure("HTTP 429"))
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out.rstrip().splitlines()
+    assert out[-1] == (
+        "HLTB: 1 lookups failed (HTTP 429 x1), cache kept for those games"
+    )
+
+
+def test_stats_exits_nonzero_when_a_batch_refreshed_nothing(
+    capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str],
+) -> None:
+    """A total failure (auth init or every lookup) is a non-zero exit."""
+    msg = "HLTB: rate-limited, nothing refreshed (auth init: HTTP 429)"
+    with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as exc:
+        _stats_with(lambda *_a: record_fatal(msg))
+    assert exc.value.code == 1
+    assert capsys.readouterr().out.rstrip().splitlines()[-1] == msg
+
+
+def test_stats_resets_the_tally_first(capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+    """Failures from an earlier command in the same process are not re-reported."""
+    record_fatal("stale")
+    _stats_with(None)
+    assert "stale" not in capsys.readouterr().out
+
+
+def test_stats_exits_zero_when_another_lookup_succeeded(
+    capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str],
+) -> None:
+    """One refreshed game anywhere in the command means old data survived: exit 0."""
+    msg = "HLTB: all 3 lookups failed, nothing refreshed"
+
+    def one_success_then_a_fatal_batch(*_a: object) -> None:
+        record_success()
+        record_fatal(msg)
+
+    _stats_with(one_success_then_a_fatal_batch)
+    assert capsys.readouterr().out.rstrip().splitlines()[-1] == msg
+
+
+def test_repeated_fatal_lines_print_once() -> None:
+    """Four batches failing auth the same way give one line, not four."""
+    for _ in range(4):
+        record_fatal("HLTB: rate-limited, nothing refreshed (auth init: timeout)")
+    assert failure_summary_lines() == [
+        "HLTB: rate-limited, nothing refreshed (auth init: timeout)"
+    ]

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_pacing.py

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+"""HLTB requests are paced: one at a time, 1.1 s gap after each request (~55/min).
+
+HLTB rate-limits a burst after ~60 lookups; a full refresh is ~800 games.
+Fake transport only: no request ever leaves the process.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, cast
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import pytest
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer import _hltb_pacing
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_comp_extract import _fetch_detail_one
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import BREAKER_LIMIT, shared_breaker
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_one import _search_one, _SearchCtx
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import MAX_CONCURRENT, _AuthInfo
+from steam_backlog_enforcer.tests._hltb_fake_transport import (
+    MATCH,
+    NO_MATCH,
+    FakeResp,
+    FakeSession,
+)
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import aiohttp
+
+_INTERVAL = 1.1
+
+
+class _DetailSession:
+    """Fake session answering every detail GET with a 404."""
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.gets = 0
+
+    def get(self, _url: str, *, headers: object) -> FakeResp:
+        del headers
+        self.gets += 1
+        return FakeResp(404)
+
+
+def _ctx(session: FakeSession) -> _SearchCtx:
+    return _SearchCtx(
+        session=cast("aiohttp.ClientSession", session),
+        search_url="https://example.invalid/api/finder",
+        headers={},
+        cache={},
+        auth=_AuthInfo("t"),
+        counter={"done": 0, "found": 0, "failed": 0},
+    )
+
+
+def _record_sleeps(sem: asyncio.Semaphore) -> tuple[list[float], object]:
+    """Fake ``asyncio.sleep`` that records each pause and that a slot is held."""
+    pauses: list[float] = []
+
+    async def fake_sleep(seconds: float) -> None:
+        assert sem.locked(), "the pause must hold the request slot"
+        pauses.append(seconds)
+
+    return pauses, fake_sleep
+
+
+def test_one_request_in_flight() -> None:
+    """HLTB sees one request in flight at a time."""
+    assert MAX_CONCURRENT == 1
+
+
+def test_default_interval_stays_under_the_limit() -> None:
+    """1.1 s between requests keeps us at ~55/min, under the ~60/min limit."""
+    assert _hltb_pacing.REQUEST_INTERVAL_S == _INTERVAL
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("body", [MATCH, NO_MATCH])
+def test_each_search_post_is_followed_by_a_pause(body: dict[str, object]) -> None:
+    """Every search POST, match or not, waits the interval inside its slot."""
+    session = FakeSession({"*": FakeResp(200, body)})
+    ctx = _ctx(session)
+
+    async def run() -> list[float]:
+        sem = asyncio.Semaphore(1)
+        pauses, fake_sleep = _record_sleeps(sem)
+        with patch.object(_hltb_pacing, "_sleep", fake_sleep):
+            await _search_one(sem, ctx, 1, "Vox Populi: Poland 2023")
+        return pauses
+
+    pauses = asyncio.run(run())
+    assert len(session.posts) >= 1
+    assert pauses == [_INTERVAL] * len(session.posts)
+
+
+def test_skipped_lookup_after_breaker_does_not_pause() -> None:
+    """Once the breaker has tripped nothing is sent, so nothing waits."""
+    session = FakeSession({"*": FakeResp(200, MATCH)})
+    ctx = _ctx(session)
+    ctx.breaker = shared_breaker()
+    for _ in range(BREAKER_LIMIT):
+        ctx.breaker.note(429)
+
+    async def run() -> list[float]:
+        sem = asyncio.Semaphore(1)
+        pauses, fake_sleep = _record_sleeps(sem)
+        with patch.object(_hltb_pacing, "_sleep", fake_sleep):
+            await _search_one(sem, ctx, 1, "Celeste")
+        return pauses
+
+    assert asyncio.run(run()) == []
+    assert session.posts == []
+
+
+def test_each_detail_get_is_followed_by_a_pause() -> None:
+    """Detail-page GETs are paced the same way as search POSTs."""
+    session = _DetailSession()
+
+    async def run() -> list[float]:
+        sem = asyncio.Semaphore(1)
+        pauses, fake_sleep = _record_sleeps(sem)
+        with patch.object(_hltb_pacing, "_sleep", fake_sleep):
+            await _fetch_detail_one(sem, cast("aiohttp.ClientSession", session), 77)
+        return pauses
+
+    assert asyncio.run(run()) == [_INTERVAL]
+    assert session.gets == 1

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_refetch_failure_keeps_cache.py

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+"""Refetch paths must not lose polls/count_comp when the refetch writes nothing.
+
+The fetch itself is stubbed to a no-op, which is exactly what a failed HLTB
+lookup now does: it leaves the in-memory caches untouched.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer import _hltb_confidence, _hltb_types, _scanning_confidence
+from steam_backlog_enforcer.steam_api import GameInfo
+
+_ENTRY = {
+    "hours": 20.0,
+    "polls": 100,
+    "count_comp": 500,
+    "rush_hours": 15.0,
+    "leisure_100h": 30.0,
+    "hltb_game_id": 77,
+}
+
+
+def _seed(entries: dict[int, dict[str, float]]) -> None:
+    _hltb_types.HLTB_CACHE_FILE.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    _hltb_types.HLTB_CACHE_FILE.write_text(
+        json.dumps({str(k): v for k, v in entries.items()}), encoding="utf-8"
+    )
+
+
+def _raw() -> dict[str, dict[str, float]]:
+    data: dict[str, dict[str, float]] = json.loads(
+        _hltb_types.HLTB_CACHE_FILE.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    )
+    return data
+
+
+def test_refetch_poll_counts_keeps_polls_on_failure() -> None:
+    """refetch_poll_counts used to drop the entry and restore only its hours."""
+    _seed({1: dict(_ENTRY)})
+    with patch.object(_hltb_confidence, "fetch_hltb_confidence"):
+        polls = _hltb_confidence.refetch_poll_counts([(1, "Game")])
+    assert polls[1] == 100
+    assert _raw()["1"] == _ENTRY
+
+
+def test_confidence_refresh_keeps_entry_on_failure() -> None:
+    """The candidate confidence refresh popped hours/polls/count_comp to disk."""
+    _seed({1: dict(_ENTRY)})
+    game = GameInfo(
+        app_id=1,
+        name="Game",
+        total_achievements=10,
+        unlocked_achievements=0,
+        playtime_minutes=0,
+    )
+    with patch.object(_hltb_confidence, "fetch_hltb_confidence"):
+        _scanning_confidence._refresh_candidate_confidence_batch([game], force=True)
+    assert _raw()["1"] == _ENTRY
+    assert (game.comp_100_count, game.count_comp) == (100, 500)
+
+
+def test_detail_missing_keeps_known_miss_on_failure() -> None:
+    """A cached miss (-1) must not vanish from the cache when the refetch fails."""
+    miss = dict(
+        _ENTRY, hours=-1.0, rush_hours=-1.0, leisure_100h=-1.0, polls=0, count_comp=0
+    )
+    _seed({1: miss, 2: dict(_ENTRY, rush_hours=-1.0)})
+    with patch.object(_hltb_confidence, "fetch_hltb_times_timed", return_value=0.0):
+        _hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_detail_missing([(1, "Gone"), (2, "Known")])
+    raw = _raw()
+    assert raw["1"]["hours"] == -1
+    assert raw["2"]["hours"] == 20.0
+    assert raw["2"]["polls"] == 100

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_search.py

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def _make_ctx(
         search_url="https://example.com/search",
         headers={},
         cache=cache if cache is not None else {},
-        counter={"done": 0, "found": 0},
+        counter={"done": 0, "found": 0, "failed": 0},
         total=1,
         progress_cb=progress_cb,
     )
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ class TestSearchOne:
         ctx = _make_ctx(session)
         result = asyncio.run(_search_one(asyncio.Semaphore(1), ctx, 440, "TF2"))
         assert result is None
+        assert 440 not in ctx.cache  # a failed lookup is not a miss
+        assert ctx.counter["failed"] == 1
 
     def test_non_200(self) -> None:
         """Test non 200."""
@@ -125,6 +127,8 @@ class TestSearchOne:
         ctx = _make_ctx(_make_session(resp))
         result = asyncio.run(_search_one(asyncio.Semaphore(1), ctx, 440, "TF2"))
         assert result is None
+        assert 440 not in ctx.cache  # a failed lookup is not a miss
+        assert ctx.counter["failed"] == 1
 
     def test_fallback_name_without_year_suffix(self) -> None:
         """Test fallback name without year suffix."""

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_search_batch_failures.py

@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+"""Batch-level HLTB failure handling: auth init, total failure, circuit breaker."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import aiohttp
+import pytest
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer import _hltb_search
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import (
+    HLTBUnavailableError,
+    failure_summary_lines,
+    reset_failures,
+)
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search import _search_batch
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import _HLTBExtras
+from steam_backlog_enforcer.tests._hltb_fake_transport import (
+    MATCH,
+    FakeInitSession,
+    FakeResp,
+)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _fresh_tally() -> None:
+    reset_failures()
+
+
+def _batch(
+    status: int,
+    routes: dict[str, object],
+    games: list[tuple[int, str]],
+    fake: FakeInitSession | None = None,
+) -> FakeInitSession:
+    fake = fake or FakeInitSession(status, routes)
+    with (
+        patch.object(
+            _hltb_search, "_get_hltb_search_url", return_value="https://x.invalid/f"
+        ),
+        patch.object(_hltb_search.aiohttp, "ClientSession", lambda **_k: fake),
+        patch.object(_hltb_search.aiohttp, "TCPConnector", lambda **_k: None),
+    ):
+        asyncio.run(_search_batch(games, {}, {}, None, _HLTBExtras()))
+    return fake
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "init", [429, aiohttp.ClientConnectionError("no network")], ids=["429", "offline"]
+)
+def test_auth_init_failure_fails_the_batch_up_front(
+    init: int | BaseException,
+) -> None:
+    """A failed /init means nothing can refresh: raise instead of returning []."""
+    with pytest.raises(HLTBUnavailableError, match="rate-limited, nothing refreshed"):
+        _batch(init, {"*": FakeResp(200, MATCH)}, [(1, "Vox Populi")])
+    assert any("nothing refreshed" in ln for ln in failure_summary_lines())
+
+
+def test_empty_batch_is_not_a_failure() -> None:
+    """No games: no request, no error."""
+    fake = _batch(429, {}, [])
+    assert fake.search.posts == []
+    assert failure_summary_lines() == []
+
+
+def test_breaker_trips_after_five_consecutive_429s() -> None:
+    """After 5 straight 429s the rest of the batch sends no request at all."""
+    fake = FakeInitSession(200, {"*": FakeResp(429)})
+    games = [(aid, "Celeste") for aid in range(10, 18)]
+    with (
+        patch.object(
+            _hltb_search, "_get_hltb_search_url", return_value="https://x.invalid/f"
+        ),
+        patch.object(_hltb_search.aiohttp, "ClientSession", lambda **_k: fake),
+        patch.object(_hltb_search.aiohttp, "TCPConnector", lambda **_k: None),
+        pytest.raises(HLTBUnavailableError, match="all 8 lookups failed"),
+    ):
+        asyncio.run(_search_batch(games, {}, {}, None, _HLTBExtras()))
+    assert len(fake.search.posts) == 5
+    lines = failure_summary_lines()
+    assert lines[0] == (
+        "HLTB: 8 lookups failed (HTTP 429 x5, skipped after rate-limit x3),"
+        " cache kept for those games"
+    )
+    assert "HLTB: rate-limited, 8 games not refreshed" in lines
+
+
+def test_batch_where_every_lookup_failed_raises() -> None:
+    """Every lookup failing is a total failure."""
+    with pytest.raises(HLTBUnavailableError, match="all 2 lookups failed"):
+        _batch(200, {"*": FakeResp(500)}, [(1, "Celeste"), (2, "Celeste")])
+
+
+def test_batch_with_one_success_does_not_raise() -> None:
+    """At least one success: the batch completes and failures are only reported."""
+    _batch(
+        200,
+        {"Vox Populi": FakeResp(200, MATCH), "*": FakeResp(500)},
+        [(1, "Vox Populi"), (2, "Celeste")],
+    )
+    assert failure_summary_lines()[0].startswith("HLTB: 1 lookups failed (HTTP 500 x1)")
+
+
+def test_tripped_breaker_skips_later_batches_of_the_same_command() -> None:
+    """Once HLTB rate-limits us, later batches send no request (not even /init)."""
+    with pytest.raises(HLTBUnavailableError):
+        _batch(200, {"*": FakeResp(429)}, [(aid, "Celeste") for aid in range(5)])
+    fake = FakeInitSession(200, {"*": FakeResp(200, MATCH)})
+    with pytest.raises(HLTBUnavailableError, match="rate-limited"):
+        _batch(200, {}, [(1, "Vox"), (2, "Vox")], fake)
+    assert (fake.gets, fake.search.posts) == (0, [])
+    # Games 1 and 2 were in both batches: count games, not lookups.
+    assert "HLTB: rate-limited, 5 games not refreshed" in failure_summary_lines()
+
+
+def test_reset_clears_a_tripped_breaker() -> None:
+    """A new command starts with HLTB assumed reachable again."""
+    with pytest.raises(HLTBUnavailableError):
+        _batch(200, {"*": FakeResp(429)}, [(aid, "Celeste") for aid in range(5)])
+    reset_failures()
+    fake = _batch(200, {"*": FakeResp(200, MATCH)}, [(1, "Vox Populi")])
+    assert len(fake.search.posts) == 1

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_search_failure_keeps_cache.py

@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+"""A failed HLTB search must keep the cached entry; only a clean no-match is a miss.
+
+Fake transport only: no request ever leaves the process.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+from typing import cast
+
+import aiohttp
+import pytest
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import (
+    failure_summary_lines,
+    reset_failures,
+)
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_one import _search_one, _SearchCtx
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_types import _AuthInfo, _HLTBExtras
+from steam_backlog_enforcer.tests._hltb_fake_transport import (
+    MATCH,
+    NO_MATCH,
+    FakeResp,
+    FakeSession,
+)
+
+
+def _ctx(session: FakeSession, total: int = 1) -> _SearchCtx:
+    return _SearchCtx(
+        session=cast("aiohttp.ClientSession", session),
+        search_url="https://example.invalid/api/finder",
+        headers={},
+        cache={1: 50.0},
+        polls={1: 120},
+        extras=_HLTBExtras(count_comp={1: 900}),
+        auth=_AuthInfo("t"),
+        counter={"done": 0, "found": 0, "failed": 0},
+        total=total,
+    )
+
+
+def _run(ctx: _SearchCtx, app_id: int, name: str) -> None:
+    asyncio.run(_search_one(asyncio.Semaphore(1), ctx, app_id, name))
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _fresh_tally() -> None:
+    reset_failures()
+
+
+_FAILURES = {
+    "429": FakeResp(429),
+    "500": FakeResp(500),
+    "403": FakeResp(403),
+    "timeout": TimeoutError(),
+    "client_error": aiohttp.ClientConnectionError("refused"),
+    "bad_json": FakeResp(200, None),
+}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("kind", sorted(_FAILURES))
+def test_failed_search_keeps_prior_entry(kind: str) -> None:
+    """Any non-clean answer leaves hours, polls and count_comp untouched."""
+    ctx = _ctx(FakeSession({"*": _FAILURES[kind]}))
+    _run(ctx, 1, "Celeste")
+    assert ctx.cache[1] == 50.0
+    assert ctx.polls[1] == 120
+    assert ctx.extras.count_comp[1] == 900
+    assert ctx.counter["failed"] == 1
+    assert ctx.counter["found"] == 0
+
+
+def test_failed_variant_blocks_a_miss() -> None:
+    """One variant no-match + one variant 429 is a failure, not a miss."""
+    routes = {"Vox Populi Poland 2023": FakeResp(200, NO_MATCH), "*": FakeResp(429)}
+    ctx = _ctx(FakeSession(routes))
+    _run(ctx, 1, "Vox Populi: Poland 2023")
+    assert (ctx.cache[1], ctx.polls[1], ctx.extras.count_comp[1]) == (50.0, 120, 900)
+    assert ctx.counter["failed"] == 1
+
+
+def test_match_beats_failed_sibling_variant() -> None:
+    """A real match replaces the entry even when another variant failed."""
+    routes = {"Vox Populi Poland 2023": FakeResp(429), "*": FakeResp(200, MATCH)}
+    ctx = _ctx(FakeSession(routes))
+    _run(ctx, 1, "Vox Populi: Poland 2023")
+    assert (ctx.cache[1], ctx.polls[1], ctx.extras.count_comp[1]) == (10.0, 42, 300)
+    assert ctx.counter == {"done": 1, "found": 1, "failed": 0}
+
+
+def test_clean_no_match_still_writes_a_miss() -> None:
+    """Every variant answered 200 with nothing usable: that is a real miss."""
+    ctx = _ctx(FakeSession({"*": FakeResp(200, NO_MATCH)}))
+    _run(ctx, 1, "Vox Populi: Poland 2023")
+    assert (ctx.cache[1], ctx.polls[1], ctx.extras.count_comp[1]) == (-1, 0, 0)
+    assert ctx.counter["failed"] == 0
+
+
+def test_failure_without_prior_entry_writes_nothing() -> None:
+    """An uncached game that fails stays uncached so the next run retries it."""
+    ctx = _ctx(FakeSession({"*": FakeResp(429)}))
+    _run(ctx, 2, "Celeste")
+    assert 2 not in ctx.cache
+    assert 2 not in ctx.polls
+    assert 2 not in ctx.extras.count_comp
+    assert ctx.counter == {"done": 1, "found": 0, "failed": 1}
+
+
+def test_summary_line_counts_reasons() -> None:
+    """The end-of-run line names every failure reason with its count."""
+    ctx = _ctx(FakeSession({"*": FakeResp(429)}), total=2)
+    _run(ctx, 1, "Celeste")
+    ctx.session = cast("aiohttp.ClientSession", FakeSession({"*": TimeoutError()}))
+    _run(ctx, 1, "Celeste")
+    assert failure_summary_lines()[0] == (
+        "HLTB: 2 lookups failed (HTTP 429 x1, timeouts x1), cache kept for those games"
+    )
+
+
+def test_no_failures_no_summary() -> None:
+    """A clean run prints no failure line."""
+    ctx = _ctx(FakeSession({"*": FakeResp(200, MATCH)}))
+    _run(ctx, 1, "Vox Populi")
+    assert failure_summary_lines() == []

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_search_fetch_batch_hltb.py

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ import asyncio
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Self
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock, patch
 
+import pytest
+
+from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_failures import HLTBUnavailableError
 from steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search import (
     _fetch_batch,
     _SearchCtx,
@@ -73,9 +76,9 @@ class TestFetchBatchHltb:
                 new_callable=AsyncMock,
                 return_value=None,
             ),
+            pytest.raises(HLTBUnavailableError, match="nothing refreshed"),
         ):
-            results = asyncio.run(_fetch_batch([(440, "TF2")], {}, {}, None))
+            asyncio.run(_fetch_batch([(440, "TF2")], {}, {}, None))
-            assert results == []
 
 
 class TestPickBestEntry:

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_hltb_search_zero_comp_100_skipped.py

@@ -147,7 +147,9 @@ class TestSearchOneGroup2:
         # Set done to one less than _SAVE_INTERVAL so it triggers save
 
         ctx.counter["done"] = _SAVE_INTERVAL - 1
-        with patch("steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search.save_hltb_cache") as mock_save:
+        with patch(
+            "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_search_one.save_hltb_cache"
+        ) as mock_save:
             asyncio.run(_search_one(asyncio.Semaphore(1), ctx, 440, "TF2"))
             mock_save.assert_called_once()
 

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_polls_tracking_backfill_polls_for_finished.py

@@ -57,19 +57,26 @@ class TestBackfillPollsForFinished:
             json.dumps({"1": {"hours": 2.0, "polls": 0}}), encoding="utf-8"
         )
 
-        def fake_fetch(games: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, float]:
+        def fake_fetch(
-            """Test fake fetch."""
+            games: list[tuple[int, str]],
-            data = json.loads(cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+            cache: dict[int, float],
+            polls: dict[int, int],
+            count_comp: dict[int, int],
+            **_kw: object,
+        ) -> list[object]:
+            """Test fake search: write into the caches it is handed."""
             for aid, _name in games:
-                data[str(aid)] = {"hours": 2.0, "polls": 9}
+                cache[aid], polls[aid], count_comp[aid] = 2.0, 9, 0
-            cache_file.write_text(json.dumps(data), encoding="utf-8")
+            return []
-            return {aid: 2.0 for aid, _ in games}
 
         with (
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.HLTB_CACHE_FILE", cache_file),
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.CONFIG_DIR", tmp_path),
             patch(f"{_CMD}.load_snapshot", return_value=[{"app_id": 1, "name": "G"}]),
-            patch(f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached", side_effect=fake_fetch),
+            patch(
+                "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence",
+                side_effect=fake_fetch,
+            ),
             patch(f"{_CMD}._echo"),
         ):
             result = _cmd_done._backfill_polls_for_finished(_state([1]))
@@ -82,19 +89,26 @@ class TestBackfillPollsForFinished:
             json.dumps({"7": {"hours": 1.0, "polls": 0}}), encoding="utf-8"
         )
 
-        def fake_fetch(games: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, float]:
+        def fake_fetch(
-            """Test fake fetch."""
+            games: list[tuple[int, str]],
-            data = json.loads(cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+            cache: dict[int, float],
+            polls: dict[int, int],
+            count_comp: dict[int, int],
+            **_kw: object,
+        ) -> list[object]:
+            """Test fake search: write into the caches it is handed."""
             for aid, _name in games:
-                data[str(aid)] = {"hours": 1.0, "polls": 4}
+                cache[aid], polls[aid], count_comp[aid] = 1.0, 4, 0
-            cache_file.write_text(json.dumps(data), encoding="utf-8")
+            return []
-            return {aid: 1.0 for aid, _ in games}
 
         with (
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.HLTB_CACHE_FILE", cache_file),
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.CONFIG_DIR", tmp_path),
             patch(f"{_CMD}.load_snapshot", return_value=[{"app_id": 7, "name": "G"}]),
-            patch(f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached", side_effect=fake_fetch),
+            patch(
+                "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence",
+                side_effect=fake_fetch,
+            ),
             patch(f"{_CMD}._echo"),
         ):
             result = _cmd_done._backfill_polls_for_finished(
@@ -109,20 +123,26 @@ class TestBackfillPollsForFinished:
             json.dumps({"3": {"hours": 4.0, "polls": 0}}), encoding="utf-8"
         )
 
-        def fake_fetch(games: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, float]:
+        def fake_fetch(
-            # Simulate a refetch returning a miss (hours -1, polls 0).
+            games: list[tuple[int, str]],
-            """Test fake fetch."""
+            cache: dict[int, float],
-            data = json.loads(cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+            polls: dict[int, int],
+            count_comp: dict[int, int],
+            **_kw: object,
+        ) -> list[object]:
+            """Test fake search: a clean miss (hours -1, polls 0)."""
             for aid, _name in games:
-                data[str(aid)] = {"hours": -1, "polls": 0}
+                cache[aid], polls[aid], count_comp[aid] = -1, 0, 0
-            cache_file.write_text(json.dumps(data), encoding="utf-8")
+            return []
-            return {aid: -1 for aid, _ in games}
 
         with (
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.HLTB_CACHE_FILE", cache_file),
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.CONFIG_DIR", tmp_path),
             patch(f"{_CMD}.load_snapshot", return_value=[{"app_id": 3, "name": "G"}]),
-            patch(f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached", side_effect=fake_fetch),
+            patch(
+                "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence",
+                side_effect=fake_fetch,
+            ),
             patch(f"{_CMD}._echo"),
         ):
             _cmd_done._backfill_polls_for_finished(_state([3]))

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_polls_tracking_part2.py

@@ -149,19 +149,23 @@ class TestScanningPollsIntegration:
             json.dumps({"2": {"hours": 3.0, "polls": 0}}), encoding="utf-8"
         )
 
-        def fake_fetch(games: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, float]:
+        def fake_fetch(
-            """Test fake fetch."""
+            games: list[tuple[int, str]],
-            data = json.loads(cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+            cache: dict[int, float],
+            polls: dict[int, int],
+            count_comp: dict[int, int],
+            **_kw: object,
+        ) -> list[object]:
+            """Test fake search: write into the caches it is handed."""
             for aid, _name in games:
-                data[str(aid)] = {"hours": 3.0, "polls": 8}
+                cache[aid], polls[aid], count_comp[aid] = 3.0, 8, 0
-            cache_file.write_text(json.dumps(data), encoding="utf-8")
+            return []
-            return {aid: 3.0 for aid, _ in games}
 
         with (
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.HLTB_CACHE_FILE", cache_file),
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.CONFIG_DIR", tmp_path),
             patch(
-                f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached",
+                "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence",
                 side_effect=fake_fetch,
             ),
         ):
@@ -186,19 +190,23 @@ class TestScanningPollsIntegration:
             json.dumps({"2": {"hours": 9.0, "polls": 0}}), encoding="utf-8"
         )
 
-        def fake_fetch(games: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, float]:
+        def fake_fetch(
-            """Test fake fetch."""
+            games: list[tuple[int, str]],
-            data = json.loads(cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+            cache: dict[int, float],
+            polls: dict[int, int],
+            count_comp: dict[int, int],
+            **_kw: object,
+        ) -> list[object]:
+            """Test fake search: write into the caches it is handed."""
             for aid, _name in games:
-                data[str(aid)] = {"hours": -1, "polls": 0}
+                cache[aid], polls[aid], count_comp[aid] = -1, 0, 0
-            cache_file.write_text(json.dumps(data), encoding="utf-8")
+            return []
-            return {aid: -1 for aid, _ in games}
 
         with (
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.HLTB_CACHE_FILE", cache_file),
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.CONFIG_DIR", tmp_path),
             patch(
-                f"{_CONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached",
+                "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence",
                 side_effect=fake_fetch,
             ),
         ):

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_polls_tracking_report_poll_confidence_chosen_zero_polls_report_poll_confidence_chosen_equals_min.py

@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ class TestScanningPollsIntegrationGroup2Group2:
             comp_100_count=3,
             count_comp=15,
         )
-        with patch(f"{_SCANCONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached") as mock_fetch:
+        with patch(
+            "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence"
+        ) as mock_fetch:
             _scanning_confidence._refresh_candidate_confidence(game)
         mock_fetch.assert_not_called()
 
@@ -99,18 +101,23 @@ class TestScanningPollsIntegrationGroup2Group2:
             count_comp=0,
         )
 
-        def fake_fetch(_games: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, float]:
+        def fake_fetch(
-            """Test fake fetch."""
+            games: list[tuple[int, str]],
-            data = json.loads(cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+            cache: dict[int, float],
-            data["1"] = {"hours": 4.0, "polls": 3, "count_comp": 15}
+            polls: dict[int, int],
-            cache_file.write_text(json.dumps(data), encoding="utf-8")
+            count_comp: dict[int, int],
-            return {1: 4.0}
+            **_kw: object,
+        ) -> list[object]:
+            """Test fake search: write into the caches it is handed."""
+            del games
+            cache[1], polls[1], count_comp[1] = 4.0, 3, 15
+            return []
 
         with (
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.HLTB_CACHE_FILE", cache_file),
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.CONFIG_DIR", tmp_path),
             patch(
-                f"{_SCANCONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached",
+                "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence",
                 side_effect=fake_fetch,
             ),
             patch(f"{_SCANCONF}._echo"),
@@ -151,20 +158,24 @@ class TestScanningPollsIntegrationGroup2Group2:
             count_comp=0,
         )
 
-        def fake_fetch(games: list[tuple[int, str]]) -> dict[int, float]:
+        def fake_fetch(
-            """Test fake fetch."""
+            games: list[tuple[int, str]],
+            cache: dict[int, float],
+            polls: dict[int, int],
+            count_comp: dict[int, int],
+            **_kw: object,
+        ) -> list[object]:
+            """Test fake search: write into the caches it is handed."""
             assert sorted(games) == [(1, "A"), (2, "B")]
-            data = json.loads(cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+            cache[1], polls[1], count_comp[1] = 4.0, 3, 15
-            data["1"] = {"hours": 4.0, "polls": 3, "count_comp": 15}
+            cache[2], polls[2], count_comp[2] = 5.0, 3, 15
-            data["2"] = {"hours": 5.0, "polls": 3, "count_comp": 15}
+            return []
-            cache_file.write_text(json.dumps(data), encoding="utf-8")
-            return {1: 4.0, 2: 5.0}
 
         with (
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.HLTB_CACHE_FILE", cache_file),
             patch(f"{_TYPES}.CONFIG_DIR", tmp_path),
             patch(
-                f"{_SCANCONF}.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached",
+                "steam_backlog_enforcer._hltb_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence",
                 side_effect=fake_fetch,
             ) as mock_fetch,
             patch(f"{_SCANCONF}._echo"),

steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_scanning_confidence_helpers.py

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class TestConfidenceHelpers:
         game.comp_100_count = 3
         game.count_comp = 15
         with patch(
-            "steam_backlog_enforcer._scanning_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached",
+            "steam_backlog_enforcer._scanning_confidence.refresh_confidence",
         ) as mock_fetch:
             _refresh_candidate_confidence_batch([game], force=False)
         mock_fetch.assert_not_called()
@@ -62,32 +62,17 @@ class TestConfidenceHelpers:
         game = _game(app_id=30, name="C", hours=9.5)
         game.comp_100_count = 0
         game.count_comp = 0
-        with (
+        # refresh_confidence owns the hours-preservation rule (see
-            patch(
+        # test_hltb_refetch_failure_keeps_cache); this layer only applies polls.
-                "steam_backlog_enforcer._scanning_confidence.load_hltb_cache",
+        with patch(
-                side_effect=[{30: 9.5}, {30: -1.0}],
+            "steam_backlog_enforcer._scanning_confidence.refresh_confidence",
-            ),
+            return_value=({30: 9.5}, {30: 4}, {30: 7}),
-            patch(
+        ) as mock_refresh:
-                "steam_backlog_enforcer._scanning_confidence.load_hltb_polls_cache",
-                return_value={30: 0},
-            ),
-            patch(
-                "steam_backlog_enforcer._scanning_confidence.load_hltb_count_comp_cache",
-                return_value={30: 0},
-            ),
-            patch(
-                "steam_backlog_enforcer._scanning_confidence.fetch_hltb_confidence_cached",
-                return_value={30: -1.0},
-            ),
-            patch(
-                "steam_backlog_enforcer._scanning_confidence.save_hltb_cache",
-            ) as mock_save,
-        ):
             _refresh_candidate_confidence_batch([game], force=True)
 
+        mock_refresh.assert_called_once_with([(30, "C")])
         assert game.completionist_hours == 9.5
-        saved_cache = mock_save.call_args.args[0]
+        assert (game.comp_100_count, game.count_comp) == (4, 7)
-        assert saved_cache[30] == 9.5
 
     def test_filter_hltb_confident_candidates_skips_low_confidence(self) -> None:
         """Test filter hltb confident candidates skips low confidence."""

web/package.json

@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@
     "coverage": "vitest run --coverage"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@tanstack/react-query": "5.105.1",
+    "@tanstack/react-query": "5.107.1",
     "@tanstack/react-router": "1.170.46",
     "react": "19.3.1",
     "react-dom": "19.3.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@babel/core": "8.0.10",
+    "@babel/core": "8.1.0",
     "@eslint/js": "10.0.1",
     "@rolldown/plugin-babel": "0.3.0",
     "@testing-library/dom": "10.4.2",
@@ -30,17 +30,17 @@
     "@types/node": "26.6.6",
     "@types/react": "19.3.0",
     "@types/react-dom": "19.3.0",
-    "@vitejs/plugin-react": "6.1.2",
+    "@vitejs/plugin-react": "6.2.1",
-    "@vitest/coverage-v8": "5.0.5",
+    "@vitest/coverage-v8": "5.1.0",
     "babel-plugin-react-compiler": "1.0.0",
     "eslint": "10.14.0",
     "eslint-plugin-react-hooks": "7.1.1",
     "eslint-plugin-react-refresh": "0.5.7",
     "globals": "17.14.0",
-    "jsdom": "30.1.3",
+    "jsdom": "31.0.0",
     "typescript": "6.0.3",
     "typescript-eslint": "8.72.1",
-    "vite": "8.3.5",
+    "vite": "8.3.6",
-    "vitest": "5.0.5"
+    "vitest": "5.1.0"
   }
 }