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Adding a workflow status badge

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You can display a status badge in your repository to indicate the status of your workflows.

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Note: Workflow badges in a private repository are not accessible externally, so you won't be able to embed them or link to them from an external site.

A status badge shows whether a workflow is currently failing or passing. A common place to add a status badge is in the README.md file of your repository, but you can add it to any web page you'd like. By default, badges display the status of your default branch. You can also display the status of a workflow run for a specific branch or event using the branch and event query parameters in the URL.

Screenshot of a workflow status badge. The left side contains the octocat logo and "GitHub Actions Demo", the name of the workflow. The right half is green with the text "passing."

To add a workflow status badge to your README.md file, first find the URL for the status badge you would like to display. Then you can use Markdown to display the badge as an image in your README.md file. For more information about image markup in Markdown, see "Basic writing and formatting syntax."

Using the workflow file name

You can build the URL for a workflow status badge using the name of the workflow file:

<HOSTNAME>/<OWNER>/<REPOSITORY>/actions/workflows/<WORKFLOW_FILE>/badge.svg

To display the workflow status badge in your README.md file, use the Markdown markup for embedding images. For more information about image markup in Markdown, see "Basic writing and formatting syntax."

For example, add the following Markdown to your README.md file to add a status badge for a workflow with the file path .github/workflows/main.yml. The OWNER of the repository is the github organization and the REPOSITORY name is docs.

![example workflow](https://github.com/github/docs/actions/workflows/main.yml/badge.svg)

Using the branch parameter

To display the status of a workflow run for a specific branch, add ?branch=<BRANCH_NAME> to the end of the status badge URL.

For example, add the following Markdown to your README.md file to display a status badge for a branch with the name feature-1.

![example branch parameter](https://github.com/github/docs/actions/workflows/main.yml/badge.svg?branch=feature-1)

Using the event parameter

To display the status of workflow runs triggered by the push event, add ?event=push to the end of the status badge URL.

For example, add the following Markdown to your README.md file to display a badge with the status of workflow runs triggered by the push event, which will show the status of the build for the current state of that branch.

![example event parameter](https://github.com/github/docs/actions/workflows/main.yml/badge.svg?event=push)