We could track the number of downloads per version using https://pepy.tech/project/cpp-linter which also gives a monthly and all-time totals.

OK, let's change the link to https://pepy.tech/project/cpp-linter , I like this one.

what about , So it is clear that these are downloads from PyPI (not from Github)

Nice!

Updated

we could even add a logo...

On second thought, I think green color makes the text hard to read

dark green is easier to read:

Done :)

I remembered why I did not use https://pepy.tech/project/cpp-linter instead of https://pypistats.org/packages/cpp-linter
Because date in badge is different with the data on https://pepy.tech/project/cpp-linter which is 416

If we used the badge from pepy.tech, it seems does not support logo, logoColor, etc.

I can create a similar badge from pepy.tech, but it does not support to add a logo.

Maybe we have to use https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json to create a custom badge if needed.

I noticed you didn't use the customized badge from pepy tech... I'm ok with how it is now.

I think there's a way to embed a custom logo using a base64 string in img.io badges, but it seems a fragile.

Got it to work finally!

FYI, I had to resize the logo to 14 px and encode it using this site.