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Building bots to mend 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...
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Mar 8, 2018Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub account suspended by movermeyer16967

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