RSBadges

Create code badges from the comfort and safety of Rust

Flat	Flat Square	Plastic	ForTheBadge	Social

RSBadges is a Rust-friendly badge generator. The interface strives to be minimal while still providing a feature-rich API. Both the label (the left side) and the message (the right side) of the badge can be customized fully, with the ability to

• Set text
• Set color using any valid CSS color code
• Embed a link into each side or a link for the whole badge
• Add a logo (in SVG format) from a local source or a URL
• Embed that logo's data into the badge directly
• Set the style of badge, as described in Shields.io

RSBadges can be used as an API or a command line interface (CLI). See the docs for more details on arguments and capabilities.

---

API

First, instantiate a Badge struct to set all of the generic options for a badge SVG. This fully-populated Badge is then wrapped in a Style enum, which indicates which style of badge to eventually generate.

use rsbadges::{Badge, Style};
let badge = Badge {
    label_text: String::from("Custom_label"),
    msg_text: String::from("Custom_msg"),
    label_color: String::from("red"),
    ..Badge::default()
};
// Create a plastic badge using the data created above.
let badge_style = Style::Plastic(badge);

Badge and Style together are sufficient to tell RSBadges how to construct the right badge, which it does through generate_svg():

let badge_svg = badge_style.generate_svg().unwrap();

The resulting SVG String can be saved to file using the convenience function save_svg():

rsbadges::save_svg("~/Downloads/badge.svg", &badge_svg);

See the documentation for the Badge and Style types for more.

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CLI

The CLI features all of the customization options from the API, along with a few quality-of-life improvements for command line use and evaluation, such as

• Opening a created badge SVG in browser after creation
• Specifying a save directory for the SVG

Valid argument formats match those found in the API (see the Badge type documentation). Don't worry if you get it wrong; RSBadges will let you know.

Short	Long	Default
-a	--label <string>	"test"
-b	--label-color <css_color>	"#555"
-c	--label-link <url>	""
-x	--msg <string>	"test"
-y	--msg-color <css_color>	"#007ec6"
-z	--msg-link <url>	""
-l	--logo <url or local path>	""
-f	--save-to-svg-at <filepath/file.svg>	""
-s	--style <plastic,flat,flatsquare,forthebadge,social>	"flat"
-o	--open-in-browser	false
-h	--help	false
-e	--embed-logo	false

Run the CLI with the -h flag to see all possible arguments and flags.