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GitHub repo file or directory count

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Path Parameters
user string — REQUIRED
Example: badges
repo string — REQUIRED
Example: shields
Query Parameters
type string

Possible values: [dir, file]

Entity to count: directories or files. If not specified, both files and directories are counted. GitHub API has an upper limit of 1,000 files for a directory. If a directory contains files above the limit, the badge will show an inaccurate count.

Example: file
extension string

Filter to files of type. Specify the extension without a leading dot. For instance for .js extension pass js. This param is only applicable if type is file

Example: js
style string

Possible values: [flat, flat-square, plastic, for-the-badge, social]

If not specified, the default style for this badge is "flat".

Example: flat
logo string

One of the named logos (bitcoin, dependabot, gitlab, npm, paypal, serverfault, stackexchange, superuser, telegram, travis) or simple-icons. All simple-icons are referenced using icon slugs. You can click the icon title on simple-icons to copy the slug or they can be found in the slugs.md file in the simple-icons repository. Further info.

Example: appveyor
logoColor string

The color of the logo (hex, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla and css named colors supported). Supported for named logos and Shields logos but not for custom logos. For multicolor Shields logos, the corresponding named logo will be used and colored.

Example: violet
label string

Override the default left-hand-side text (URL-Encoding needed for spaces or special characters!)

Example: healthiness
labelColor string

Background color of the left part (hex, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla and css named colors supported).

Example: abcdef
color string

Background color of the right part (hex, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla and css named colors supported).

Example: fedcba
cacheSeconds string

HTTP cache lifetime (rules are applied to infer a default value on a per-badge basis, any values specified below the default will be ignored).

Example: 3600
link string[]

Specify what clicking on the left/right of a badge should do. Note that this only works when integrating your badge in an <object> HTML tag, but not an <img> tag or a markup language.