diff --git a/R/codemeta_readme.R b/R/codemeta_readme.R
index 6056e018..c3f7a050 100644
--- a/R/codemeta_readme.R
+++ b/R/codemeta_readme.R
@@ -47,7 +47,16 @@ get_pkg_name <- function(entry) {
 
   url_onboarded_json <- "https://badges.ropensci.org/json/onboarded.json"
 
-  reviews <- jsonlite::read_json(url_onboarded_json)
+  reviews <- suppressWarnings(
+    try(jsonlite::read_json(url_onboarded_json),
+                 silent = TRUE))
+
+  if (is(reviews, "try-error")) {
+    return(tibble::tibble(
+      review = 0,
+      package = "Nope"
+    ))
+  }
 
   tibble::tibble(
     review = purrr::map_dbl(reviews, "iss_no"),
diff --git a/R/create_codemeta.R b/R/create_codemeta.R
index b665a207..4172d047 100644
--- a/R/create_codemeta.R
+++ b/R/create_codemeta.R
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ create_codemeta <- function(
   ...
 ) {
 
+  if (!pingr::is_online()) {
+    if (verbose) {
+      message("Your computer is not online. codemetar will find less metadata than if it were.")
+    }
+  }
+
   ## looks like we got a package name/path or Description file
   if (is.character(pkg)) {
 
diff --git a/R/guess_provider.R b/R/guess_provider.R
index 23f5c8d0..ab98c7ed 100644
--- a/R/guess_provider.R
+++ b/R/guess_provider.R
@@ -6,13 +6,15 @@
 ## cache available packages
 .CRAN <- function() {
 
-  available_source_packages("https://cran.rstudio.com")
+  suppressWarnings(
+    available_source_packages("https://cran.rstudio.com"))
 }
 
 # .BIOC ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .BIOC <- function() {
 
-  available_source_packages("https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc")
+  suppressWarnings(
+    available_source_packages("https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc"))
 }
 
 # CRAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 27313b90..bd2144e2 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ get_url_status_code <- function(url) {
 # check_urls -------------------------------------------------------------------
 check_urls <- function(urls) {
 
+  if (!pingr::is_online()) {
+
+    return("")
+  }
+
   messages <- do.call(rbind, lapply(urls, get_url_status_code))
 
   failed <- (messages$message != "All good")