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F-Droid downloads badge #11338
Description
📋 Description
F-Droid
Example for package com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid:
Example for package io.github.kitswas.virtualgamepadmobile:
These are dynamic badges. The larger numbers are not easily readable.
Also, the dynamic badge shows resource not found if there are zero downloads.
🔗 Data
Documentation: https://github.com/kitswas/fdroid-metrics-dashboard/?tab=readme-ov-file#badges-via-shieldsio
Example of data file:
https://github.com/kitswas/fdroid-metrics-dashboard/blob/main/processed/monthly/com.termux.json
{
"package_id": "com.termux",
"total_downloads": 505603,
"api_hits": 35908,
"versions": 7,
"search_count": 241
}🎤 Motivation
All other major distribution centres have a download count.
Time to add F-Droid to the list.
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PyvesB commentedon Sep 14, 2025
Hello @kitswas 👋🏻 Is there no way to retrieve this information via an official API?
kitswas commentedon Sep 14, 2025
@PyvesB
Not to my knowledge.
They publish raw numbers which I crunch into these metrics via a Python script. (Daily Cron job running on GitHub Actions)
There is no official API, only published JSON data files, updated weekly. https://fdroid.gitlab.io/metrics/
heliocarlitos commentedon Feb 15, 2026