How to add dynamic data badges from Shields.io
awesome-it-films json badges endpoint markdown frontend english
Intro
As I wrote in my recent post Let's make "Awesome IT Films" popular again! I've got a nice achievement which stimulate me to do more features for this project.
One of this was born in discussion in thread issue More useful badges? and in one day I've got PR with interesting idea Added badges for number of movies,tv-series and documentaries. but implementation could much to be desired.
So here I would like to describe how to achieve it without any pain.
Shields.IO
I believe everybody knows about shields.io and how to create find and create nice badge there. If you still didn't know about this service check it now. It provides also nice feature to create dynamic badges based on your endpoint via their API. That's exactly what I want for my task.
Endpoint
In my case I just count javascript objects for each entities: movies, shows, documentaries and create badge_endpoint.json in gulp task.
Important:
badge_endpoint.jsonhave to be with required and proper fields how id describes in Shields.io endpoint manual.
After that on the same page you need to validate endpoint.json file. For that you need to put a link on raw json file and shields.io will generate link for badge which you can use wherever you want.
In my case I'm putting it in readme.md file like this
Happy creating badges! :v: