Survive OpenDota proPlayers 429 during watchlist pro refresh.

Continue with watchlist names when /proPlayers is rate-limited, and soft-fail
the pro-matches step so daily can still refresh leaderboards and streamers.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

web/fetch_pro_matches.py

@@ -648,15 +648,10 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     client = OpenDotaClient(consecutive_limit=int(args.streak_429))
 
-    _log("loading pro players ...")
+    player_ids_raw = (args.players or "").strip()
-    pro_index = fetch_pro_index()
-    _log(f"  {len(pro_index)} registered pros")
-
-    player_ids = parse_pro_filter(args.players, pro_index)
     watchlist: list[dict] | None = None
     player_source = "cli"
-
+    if player_ids_raw:
-    if player_ids:
         player_source = "cli"
     elif not args.all_pros:
         watchlist = load_watchlist(args.watchlist)
@@ -670,6 +665,19 @@ def main() -> None:
     else:
         player_source = "proPlayers"
 
+    _log("loading pro players ...")
+    try:
+        pro_index = fetch_pro_index()
+    except SystemExit as exc:
+        # Watchlist runs can proceed without /proPlayers when OpenDota is 429'd.
+        if args.all_pros and not player_ids_raw:
+            raise
+        _log(f"  warn: {exc}; continuing with watchlist/cli names only")
+        pro_index = {}
+    _log(f"  {len(pro_index)} registered pros")
+
+    player_ids = parse_pro_filter(args.players, pro_index)
+
     picked = filter_pros(
         pro_index,
         with_team=args.with_team,

web/refresh_web.py

@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ def run_daily(*, dry_run: bool = False) -> bool:
         "--refresh-limit",
         "15",
         dry_run=dry_run,
+        soft_fail=True,
     )
     # Soft-fail Douyin enrichment (script itself exits 0; keep previous values on miss).
     run_script("fetch_streamers.py", dry_run=dry_run, soft_fail=True)