hueitan/made-in-taiwan

Track the stars automatically

ByronHsu opened this issue · 7 comments

ByronHsu commented

I found that the stars of projects listed on it are different to the actual one because of the time.
Hope that someone can help track the stars dynamically.

hueitan commented

Automatically is great!

liuderchi commented

We can utilize Shields project by adding markdown image like this:


![GitHub stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/{USER}/{REPO}.svg?style=flat-square&label=Stars)

Taking this project as an example (USER=hueitan, REPO=made-in-taiwan),
we got a badge like this:

MIT-stars

And it's free! 💯

Also, I have a suggestion:

We can add url to the shields image in a tidy way in markdown

// README.md

[![MIT-stars][MIT-stars-shield]][[MIT]]

// ...

// add those in the bottom:

[MIT-stars-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/stars/hueitan/made-in-taiwan.svg?style=flat-square&label=Stars
[MIT]: https://github.com/hueitan/made-in-taiwan

we got a badge that can link to repo like this:

MIT-stars

  • 👍3
  • ❤️1
hueitan commented

Good idea! Do you want to submit a pr for this shield?

liuderchi commented

@hueitan it's my pleasure 🎉

Any preference to the style/wording of the badge?

IMO considering narrow space in README I would recommend this small one:

stars

![stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/hueitan/made-in-taiwan.svg?style=flat-square&label=🌟
hueitan commented

I prefer

MIT-stars

  • 👍1
liuderchi commented

I will make badges with url pointing to the repo

  • 👍1
liuderchi commented

UPDATE:

Recently another new badge service -- badgen service (https://badgen.net/) has launched,
as an alternative to shields.io.

In theory it would be faster since it's built on Now CDN (so need no cache control).

More badge examples: https://badgen.net/#github