diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-pages.yml b/.github/workflows/update-pages.yml
index 3315a6161..2e99811ce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/update-pages.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/update-pages.yml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
 
       - name: Install npm dependencies
-        run: npm install
+        run: npm install --ignore scripts
 
       - name: Get current date
         id: date
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d9d76cd65..9540873a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ A Jupyter notebook that creates a dashboard for viewing LizardByte repository da
    ```bash
    find . -name '*.ipynb' -exec nb-clean clean {} \;
    ```
-   
+
    Or for a single notebook:
    ```bash
    nb-clean clean ./notebook/dashboard.ipynb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ A Jupyter notebook that creates a dashboard for viewing LizardByte repository da
 
 2. You can create a preview of the notebook in html by running the following commands:
    ```bash
-   npm install
+   npm install --ignore-scripts
    cp -f ./node_modules/ploty.js/dist/plotly.min.js ./gh-pages/plotly.js
    jupyter nbconvert --debug --config=./jupyter_nbconvert_config.py --execute --no-input --to=html --output-dir=./gh-pages --output=index ./notebook/dashboard.ipynb
    ```