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by nwtgck • 7 years ago

166 34 7 years ago

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davchana• 7 years ago

It outputs an not-found image if we click the button Generate with nothing in the text box.

Also, try to find if user pasted the complete github.com url; & strip it before processing it.

floatingatoll2• 7 years ago

Security note: Please remember that, while this is a great idea, it’s also an excellent platform for causing havoc such as phishing if the operator’s account is ever hacked or turns malicious. For demo purposes it’s obviously fine but do not make this live without hosting your own, or consider the risk of it sending users to e.g. “glthub.com” someday.

ly• 7 years ago

The link to the github repo is located in the code you paste on your own website, so you already host that part yourself. The only thing someone could change if the account is hacked is the contents of the image.

oarsinsync2• 7 years ago

If gh-card.dev ever changes, you might find javascript being injected via the SVG instead of it just being an image. That's what the GP is alluding to, and recommending you host the gh-card code yourself rather than using their hosted instance.

albertgoeswoof• 7 years ago

How is this any different from hotlinking an image? I don't understand the security risk here? If a bad actor gets control of the domain all they can do is change the svg that you render.

I suppose you could parse that SVG in an insecure way (if for some reason you were parsing it) but that's not a problem with using the service.

devbat8712• 7 years ago

I agree that it's probably safe, but SVG can contain script tags.

ecares• 7 years ago

Seems that private repos trigger a 500 error ;)

teknologist• 7 years ago

Please, please wrap that text box and button in a <form> so that when we press "enter" the form submits. HTML 101.

reimertz• 7 years ago

FYI, this comment would’ve been completely fine without “HTML 101”.

brogrammernot• 7 years ago

Please submit a PR. Open source 101

philshem• 7 years ago

The images don't work for me: Internal error in the request

But a question - once the SVG/PNG is generated, is it updated when the repo stats change?

t0astbread• 7 years ago

Why is everyone so negative again? This is cool!

Crinus3• 7 years ago

Because since it wasn't made by a big multibillion corporation, it is inherently unsafe, like every other thing not made by big multibillion corporations.

Only big money can be trusted.

(i'm obviously not serious here, but i do find it sad how people are fine trusting projects by FAANG, Microsoft, IBM and others of similar scale but once something is made by someone with a human face it suddenly is a problem unless it is a toy)

oauea• 7 years ago

Microsoft owns GitHub. So this was created by Microsoft.

Spivak• 7 years ago

Because single humans are busy, get bored, get distracted, stop wanting to maintain servers, stop wanting to pay for servers etc..

If the product was released by some self-sustaining entity like a business, foundation or otherwise bankrolled and staffed by parties with an interest in keeping it up then it would be much less of an issue.

The value in almost all software is the maintenance. React being good software is one thing, but what makes it so attractive is that Facebook and (and these days many others) have a financial interest in keeping it maintained.

laacz• 7 years ago

Well, as deprecation track of niche services show, it's not safe even when backed by multibillion corporations :)

dotdi• 7 years ago

This would be awesome with a dark theme.

chiefalchemist• 7 years ago

Something similar for GitLab? Please??

MH15• 7 years ago

Make it.

captn3m0• 7 years ago

I was thinking of doing something similar with auto-generated SVG files for open graph images. Does anyone know if FB/Twitter etc support SVG images for open graph content?

bytematic• 7 years ago

Should make the ability to do dark mode on that card, I would but I have no experience with that stack

weka• 7 years ago

This is really cool. One could easily put these into other repos to show stats.

pronoiac• 7 years ago

Ah. GitHub repo cards, for embedding anywhere.

From the title, I thought this was cataloging every web site.

lioeters2• 7 years ago

I wonder, is it necessary to depend on a third-party server (gh-cards.dev)? The SVG file could be embedded inline, or downloaded and served locally.

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By the way, I'm a huge fan of your work!

I'm sure others would find it enjoyable to see the creative and minimalist software: https://nwtgck.github.io/portfolio/

cosmic_quanta• 7 years ago

If the SVG was embedded, you would have to periodically re-upload a file to update the stars/fork stats no?

lioeters2• 7 years ago

Ahh, I see what you mean. You're right, so the card server does have a purpose.

Hmm, perhaps the SVG can be regenerated on the server-side during a build step or static site generation. That might remove the dependency at least on the client side.

vipref• 7 years ago

This is cool!

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