Project badges service

[oberstet]

For Python projects, it can be nice to have "badges" (small images, like Travis etc) with package downloads per month on their homepage. This informs and attracts new users.

There is a service for that: https://pypip.in

E.g. https://pypip.in/download/autobahn/badge.png

However, the service isn't terrible stable (right now, it's broken). And it would be nice if PyPI itself would provide such a service.

The numbers presented should be exactly the same regardless of source:

• PyPI project page
• badge rendering service
• PyPI API

The image should be available in two formats:

• png
• svg

[shiroyuki]

IMO, the badge might not be necessary. We just need to redesign the project page as the information like the download count is already visible on the page.

[oberstet]

@shiroyuki would that allow me to show the download count on my project page? e.g. by including an img element on my page with src = "http://pypi.../mypackage" ..

[shiroyuki]

Oh, I see. My mistake. :P

[szepeviktor]

@oberstet Please see pypi/legacy#513

[timcera]

pypip.in hasn't worked for awhile.

What I have been using is http://shields.io/

Regardless, the download counts don't work right now at pypi.org or pypi.python.org.

[jab]

Maybe this can be closed in preference to a solution based on #787 (which I just upvoted 😊) and shields.io? @brainwane et al.

[di]

Agreed. It is not likely that PyPI will ever have such a service, however it is likely that we will ship #787 and services like shields.io will once again be able to provide badges for download counts.

Closing this, but thanks to @oberstet for the feature request and identifying the need (and thanks to @jab for pointing out the alternative).