Clear Badge Cache CLI 🧹✨

Clear Badge Cache is a tool designed to purge cached GitHub badge images. Based on the repository URL and badge file, it will delete the cached image from the GitHub CDN.

Inspired by github-badge-cache-buster

There is a large list of bugs open (and incorrectly closed) relating to this. The main issue is

• #224 - Aggressive image caching breaks image badges

Some of the others are.....

• #9 - GitHub Image Proxy breaking Nodei.co images in markdown
• #15 - Badges do not update with GitHubs caching
• #111 - can't find the URL for this one
• #116 - can't find the URL for this one
• #134 - Serve cached images upon request timeout
• #137 - Travis badges seem to be broken
• #218 - GitHub caching affecting my badge
• #220 - Set Cache-Control or Expires on S3 assets
• #257 - Badge caching
• #414 - Incorrect coverage badge
• #1970 - Build status image cached by GitHub
• #3122 - Code Coverage Status Badge is cached
• #3150 - Unix nightly badge is inaccurate
• #6040 - fix coveralls badge issue in README
• #17057 - Aggressive GitHub caching breaks Gitlab badge images.

More information here.

Quick Start 🚀

Prerequisites 📋

• Go (1.22.2 or later)

Don't want to install Go? No worries; you can use the pre-built binaries in the dist directory using the same arguments as the Go program.

Installation 🛠

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd clear-badge-cache

3. Run the go file directly with or without arguments:

   go run main.go [repoURL] [badgeFile]

   If no arguments are provided, the program will prompt you to enter the repository URL. ️

Building 🔨

Run the appropriate build script from the build-scripts directory for your operating system:

• For Linux or MacOS, open your terminal and run:

  ./build-scripts/build.sh

• For Windows, run the following in Command Prompt or PowerShell:

  .\build-scripts\build.bat

This will compile the source code and produce an executable in the dist directory.

Running 🏃

To run Clear Badge Cache, navigate to the dist directory and execute the binary:

• Linux/MacOS:

  sh ./clear-badge-cache.sh

• Windows:

  .\clear-badge-cache.exe

Command Line Arguments 🖊️

You can provide the repository URL and optionally a badge file as command-line arguments:

clear-badge-cache [repoURL] [badgeFile]

If no arguments are provided, the program will prompt you to enter the repository URL.

Help

To display the help message, use the -h or --help flag:

clear-badge-cache -h

The help message is as follows:

usage: clear-badge-cache [ -h | --help | [ repoURL [ badgeFile ] ] ]

       repoURL   required unless provided on command line
       badgeFile defaults to ''

Contributing 🤝

Contributions are what make the open-source community great. Any contributions you make are much appreciated.

License 📝

Distributed under the GNU GPL-3 License. See LICENSE for more information.