joshuakgoldberg/github-sponsors-to-markdown

If you receive financial support through GitHub Sponsors, you might want to show off your backers on your profile or project page. This tool, github-sponsors-to-markdown, automatically generates a neatly formatted table of your sponsors that you can paste directly into your GitHub README. Instead of manually updating your sponsor list every time someone new joins or changes their contribution level, this tool does the work for you. At a high level, the tool connects to your GitHub account using an authentication token and pulls down your sponsorship data. It then groups your sponsors into tiers based on how much they contribute. By default, it organizes them into Bronze, Silver, and Gold levels, and it automatically sizes their avatars so higher-tier sponsors appear larger in the table. You can also customize these tiers, adjusting the minimum dollar amounts, avatar sizes, and labels to fit your needs. This is most useful for open-source maintainers, content creators, or anyone who relies on community funding through GitHub. For example, if you maintain a popular open-source project and want to publicly thank your supporters on your repository's front page, you can run this tool to generate that section of your README. The project's own creator uses it on his GitHub profile to display his supporters. One practical thing to note is that you need to provide a GitHub authentication token for the tool to access your sponsorship information. The README points out that you can generate this token using the GitHub command-line tool. Beyond that requirement, the tool is designed to be straightforward to integrate into a JavaScript or TypeScript project, and it includes an option to log extra details while it runs if you need to troubleshoot anything.