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Nomlings Badge

A tiny pixel pet for your GitHub README that eats your commits.

Add one line of markdown and an animated Nomling moves into your profile.<br>It shows your real contribution stats: it munches when you commit, keeps<br>your streak, celebrates your big days, and falls asleep if you go quiet.

[![my nomling](https://nomlings.cc/badge/YOUR-USERNAME)](https://nomlings.cc/badge)

That's it. No signup, no token, no config. Clicking the pet leads back to<br>the Nomlings, so every adopted badge is also a door here.

Pets in the wild

These are live, rendered from each account's real activity right now:

Linus Torvalds built Linux and git. His Wispling has been eating kernel commits since 1991.

PewDiePie hatched a Sproutling. It eats dotfiles and self-hosted AI.

Sindre Sorhus maintains a thousand npm packages. His Twinkling never goes hungry.

Andrej Karpathy 's Peckling naps between training runs. It wakes up hungry.

Yours is already waiting at https://nomlings.cc/badge/YOUR-USERNAME. Go say hi.

What the pet is telling you

The badge reads your contribution calendar (the same numbers as your<br>profile graph, private contributions included when your profile shows<br>them) and turns it into a mood:

Mood<br>Meaning

馃帀 celebrating<br>15+ contributions today. On fire.

馃構 eating<br>you contributed today (with your current streak)

馃檪 idle<br>active this week, nothing yet today

馃挙 sleeping<br>zero contributions in 7 days

馃 egg<br>no contributions in the last year. Hatch it.

Your pet's level grows with your yearly total, and the badge always<br>shows the real numbers: contributions today, your streak, and your<br>last-year total.

Choose your species

Your species is hatched from your username, but there are ten Nomlings<br>and you can pick any of them with ?pet=. Here is the whole family:

nomling<br>enderling<br>peckling<br>wispling<br>byteling

sproutling<br>hopling<br>twinkling<br>sporeling<br>buzzling

[![my nomling](https://nomlings.cc/badge/YOUR-USERNAME?pet=byteling)](https://nomlings.cc/badge)

Options

Param<br>Example<br>Effect

pet<br>?pet=wispling<br>pick your species

scale<br>?scale=6<br>pixel size, 2 to 8 (default 4)

color<br>?color=%23ff8833<br>sprite color (default GitHub green)

label<br>?label=off<br>sprite only, no text

Sizes

?scale=2 for a footnote, default 4, ?scale=6 for a hero:

Colors

Any hex via ?color= (URL-encode the # as %23):

Sprite only

?label=off drops the text. Perfect next to your name or in a table:

Combine anything: https://nomlings.cc/badge/YOU?pet=hopling&scale=6&color=%23ff8833

FAQ

Is it free? Yes.

Why does my badge lag my latest commit? Renders are cached for a few<br>hours to keep things fast and gentle. Your pet notices, just not<br>instantly.

Do private contributions count? They count whenever your GitHub<br>profile is set to show private contribution activity, because the badge<br>reads the same calendar your profile displays.

Is the code open source? The service is closed source: the Nomling<br>characters and pixel art are original work and this keeps them home.<br>Bugs, ideas, and species requests are very welcome in this repo's issues.

Where do Nomlings come from? They are the desktop pets that live next<br>to your terminal and eat your Claude Code tokens. Meet the full 3D<br>version at Nomlings/app.

Nomling species designs and artwork 漏 Nomlings. All rights reserved.

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