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You can put external links into e.g. your Github README.md to display badges but yes, Github seem to have some silly policy of not allowing people to inject executable Javascript into their website so you can't embed things using <object> tags, or similar. You have to use <img> which means no JS included in the badge SVG will be executed => no automatic updates.

Is it really a silly policy? I like that a lot.

Of course it is silly - it infringes on my personal freedom not to be able to execute arbitrary code on the computers of people visiting Github!

Github does proxy SVGs, but it doesn't rasterize them.

If you're interested in embedding something like this on GitHub then you might want to check out Repography [1]. There are only a few styles of dashboards at the moment but I'm working on others.

[1] https://repography.com/

Yep

Here’s an example of SVG animation https://github.com/sindresorhus/css-in-readme-like-wat

Also see https://badgen.net which is another alternative to the original post.