Pylint badge in gitlab

Question

Gitlab has functionality to generade badges about build status and coverage percentage.
Is it possible to create custom badge to display Pylint results? Or just display this

Answer 1

I developed a workaround solution to real-time per-job badges. It is not Pylint specific but the approach is general and you can easily modify it into what you need.

This example repo (branch badges) creates a custom badge for each CI job. There is also a complete walkthrough so I won't copy-paste it here.

The core idea is (assuming you're now inside a running CI job):

• Create a badge (e.g. fetch it from shields.io into a file).
• Upload the badge file to some real-time storage from where it can be linked (e.g. Dropbox).

Dropbox supports calling its API via HTTP requests (see this). Thus, all the above can be done using e.g. curl or Python requests - basic tools. You just need to pass the Dropbox access token as secret variable and save the file under the same name to overwrite the old badge.

Then, you can then directly link the Dropbox badge wherever you need. There are some tricks to it so be sure to check my example repo if you want to use it. For me it works quite well and seems to be fast.

The advantage of this method is that you don't have to mess with GitLab Pages. Instead of publishing on Pages you put it to Dropbox. That is a simple file transfer called by HTTP request. No more to that.