Building Bots to mend Broken Badges (or how to get your GitHub account suspended)

TL;DR: Many badges were broken since they were using the shuttered pypip.in site. I wrote a bot that could fix these and automatically submit pull requests with the changes. And then I had my GitHub account suspended. Do not make automatic unsolicited pull requests. Disclaimer This post discusses the design

Building Bots to mend Broken Badges (or how to get your GitHub account suspended)

Building Bots to mend Broken Badges (or how to get your GitHub account suspended)

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Building Bots to mend Broken Badges (or how to get your GitHub account suspended)

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