GitHub
Badges for GitHub repositories — stars, forks, releases, CI, issues, PRs, and more.
Display live stats from any public GitHub repository.
URL formats
All GitHub badges support both URL formats:
/github/{topic}/{owner}/{repo}.svg
/github/{owner}/{repo}/{topic}.svg
Available badges
| Category | Topics | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | stars | Repository star count |
| Forks | forks | Repository fork count |
| License | license | Repository license |
| Release | release, releases, tags, tag, assets-dl | Releases, tags, and downloads |
| CI Status | ci, checks | GitHub Actions workflow status |
| Issues | issues, open-issues, closed-issues, label-issues | Issue counts by state or label |
| Pull Requests | prs, open-prs, closed-prs, merged-prs | PR counts by state |
| Commits | commits, last-commit | Commit count and recency |
| Repository | watchers, branches, contributors, dependabot, milestones | Other repo metadata |
Quick examples




Data source
All data from the GitHub REST API. Uses the token pool for distributed rate limiting. Most badges cached 1 hour, CI/checks cached 10 minutes.