Shields: Reddit subreddit subscribers badge

[crazy-max]

:clipboard: Description

Which service is this badge for e.g: GitHub, Travis CI

Reddit

What sort of information should this badge show?
Provide an example in plain text e.g: "version | v1.01" or as a static badge
(static badge generator can be found at https://shields.io)

Subreddit subscribers count badge like :

:link: Data

Is there a public API?

Here : https://www.reddit.com/r/Portapps/about.json (replace _Portapps_ with another subreddit)

Does the API requires an API key?

Seems not required

Link to the API documentation.

https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/#GET_r_{subreddit}_about

:microphone: Motivation

Like Twitter badge, display subscribers count for a subreddit :)
I have already worked on previous badges, I can work on it if you want ;)

[calebcartwright]

I have already worked on previous badges, I can work on it if you want ;)

Awesome!

[RedSparr0w]

Just adding a quick note that you can also create this badge with the dynamic-json badge:
https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json.svg?label=r/Portapps%20subscribers&query=$.data.subscribers&url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Portapps/about.json

But i think this could be a good addition to add to shields.

[JosepBernad]

Guys, today I'm starting with this issue. I have an initial question: should we allow the user to change the color o use the reddit's color? Thanks!

[crazy-max]

Hey @JosepBernad thanks for starting working on it! I use @RedSparr0w badge on this repo with Reddit's color and I think we should stick on this one.

[JosepBernad]

Thanks @crazy-max! That's my very first issue so maybe I will need some help!

[JosepBernad]

I don't know exactly how to do it, but I've created a new branch in my fork in order to show you my progress.
Am I doing the workflow correctly?

That's the last commit where I've just pushed what I've done. I'm a little bit stuck because I don't know how to solve the issues.

I've been using other services in order to learn how it works.

[calebcartwright]

3443 is ready to merge to add this badge, but there is one item we'd like to get your thoughts on @crazy-max as the OP of this issue.

3443 will add the badge using our social badge style, so the badges will look like:

instead of the badge style discussed above:

I think the social style is a better fit considering, but what are your thoughts?

[crazy-max]

@calebcartwright We can do both using styles arg no ?

[calebcartwright]

Thanks @crazy-max - I was thinking more about the fact that the _default_ style is different, but yes you should still be able to override the style. I also believe that the fact that default style is social means that the links are embedded into the badge image itself (which I believe still holds true even if you change the style).

[crazy-max]

@calebcartwright Yes indeed we could use the same implementation as twitter for example.

[calebcartwright]

Thanks @crazy-max! I'll go ahead and merge

[calebcartwright]

Closed in https://github.com/badges/shields/commit/d685cde52bd26070bccdf50cc555dfcb9118f130

It should be deployed in a few days, but anyone interested can track the deployment status here