Showcase star count of any repo with an easy to generate image. No JS/iframes needed.
To generate an image just request the following URL: http://github.h-s.io/stars/:username/:repo where :username is the owner of your desired repo and :repo is the name of repository. Basically the URL follows the same naming scheme as GitHub. The image is cached but will represent recent star count of the chosen repo. It updates every few hours (this may change later to more frequent time interval).
If you want to host this service yourself, it can be easily done.
- Just clone the repo or obtain a zip version of it
- Assure you have node.js and npm installed
- Execute
npm installfrom command line to install all dependecies - Run the server with
nodejs main.js(by default it opens up port 3000) - Profit?!
There are already several services that provide rich GitHub buttons, but all of them require either iframe or javascript which is limiting for some use cases, e.g., for use in GitHub markdown documents. Some of the services that provide js/iframe buttons are: GitHub Buttons by mdo and github-buttons by ntkme.
As you may notice the buttons generated by this service look very similar to GitHub Buttons by mdo. To save time and avoid reinventing the wheel this service only takes a screenshot of the requested button found at ghbtns.com. In the future I will probably create the HTML version of buttons locally to avoid external request and dependency to ghbtns.com.
The source code is available at Github – lauris/github-buttons. Your feedback and contributions are always welcome.