My Badges

— Do you like GitHub Achievements?
— Do you want to get more badges?
— We got you covered!

My Badges is a GitHub Action that generates badges for your profile README.md. Badges will be updated automatically every day. And you will get new badges as you progress, or as community adds new badges. Yes, you can add your own badges!

But how does those badges look like? Check this out here, or here.

Installation

Here is how to add my badges to your profile:

• Star this repository.
• Create your-username/your-username GH profile repository.
• In README.md add the following code:

<!-- my-badges start -->
<!-- my-badges end -->

• Add the following workflow .github/workflows/my-badges.yml to your repository.

name: my-badges

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  my-badges:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Update My Badges
        run: npx update-my-badges ${{github.repository_owner}}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

• Start my-badges workflow, or wait for it to run automatically.

You can also perform these steps manually:

• Go to username/username local repo.
• Run npx update-my-badges --user <username> --token=<token> --dryrun.
• Verify my-badges and readme.md changes.
• Push a commit: git add -- . ':!data' && git commit -m "chore: update my-bagdes".

Configuration

Param	ENV alias	Description	Default
token	GITHUB_TOKEN	Auth token
user	GITHUB_USER	Username
repo	GITHUB_REPO	Repository name to push badges	{user/user}
data		Path to JSON to generate badges. If empty, required data will be obtained from the GH API
size		Badge size for README.md, px	64
dryrun		Generate badges, but skip pushing them to git
pick		List of badges to pick. Pass --pick="a-commit,ab-commit,revert-revert-commit" to generate only the specified entries. If empty gets all of them
omit		List of badges to exclude. For example, if you're too shy to flex your stars: --omit:stars-100,stars-500,stars-1000 or even shorter --omit:stars-*
compact		Represent the highest tier badges in README.md. For example, If you have both stars-100 and stars-500 achievements, only the last one will be shown
shuffle		Apply random badges sorting
cwd		Directory to operate	process.cwd()

License

MIT