Bintray download badge

[aalmiray]

Consider a badge for displaying downloadable versions from a Bintray repository. The API call is explained at https://bintray.com/docs/api/#_get_version

Proposed syntax:

http://img.shields.io/bintray/version/joe/maven/artifact.svg  // latest
http://img.shields.io/bintray/version/joe/maven/artifact/1.2.3.svg  // 1.2.3

Suggested syntax uses version in the path as Bintray might support download numbers via API calls in the future. If so that service could be added at a later stage.

[espadrine]

I'll look into it. Thanks!

References: #284, #58.

[domix]

+1

[pathikrit]

+1

[hastebrot]

The link to the API documentation is 404'ed. New link is: https://bintray.com/docs/api/#_get_version

[espadrine]

@hastebrot Thanks!

The main issue remains rate-limiting. I don't know where to draw the line exactly, but 300 requests/day is very far below that line. GitHub's initial 1440 req/day was not enough at all, for instance.

[hastebrot]

And what about the caching machanism for requests and secret credentials for a dedicated account? Is this possible?

[hastebrot]

Ah, I see, we have cache() and serverSecrets in server.js for this.

[espadrine]

The cache fills up very fast, so uncommon requests get deleted just as fast.

[jhermann]

Quoting @jbaruch: “We can consider lifting the limits for a dedicated account or for a specific API. We've done the same for other services in the past.”

[hawkw]

+1

[keilw]

I'd say for projects transparent enough to share them, download numbers either for all or the latest version over a period like last 30 days would be a cool badge, too ;-)

[AndersDJohnson]

+1

[espadrine]

Implemented by https://github.com/badges/shields/pull/517/files.