So now that we are showing the status on the github README with a badge, we are also wondering how we can get that information programmatically into our update script. Use case: we have a program here locally that we use to update the data repo. It takes a file with new information and does the github interaction to commit new data. As it currently stands, we would know about the veracity of that data by looking at the badge on github.com. We would also like to have this update script know (and show users) the veracity without making them open a web browser.
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