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)

Account suspension · community · Discussion #33519 · GitHub

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

PokemonGo-Bot/CHANGELOG.md at master · PokemonGoF/PokemonGo-Bot · GitHub

github - Git Error fatal: invalid branch name: init.defaultBranch = - Stack Overflow

BundleBot Malware Distributed Via Masqueraded Google AI Chatbot and Utilities

Allowing github-actions[bot] to push to protected branch · community · Discussion #25305 · GitHub

Account suspended and support ignores me · community · Discussion #48787 · GitHub

shields/CHANGELOG.md at master · badges/shields · GitHub

Reddit is reportedly suspending users for using third-party apps that spoof the official app : r/Android

GitHub has suspended my account for no reason, by Ali Padida

Integrating Azure DevOps with GitHub - Hybrid Model - DEV Community