Custom Sponsoring Link

[alifa98]

Hello all,

It would be great if we could add custom links to the sponsor button. For example, when the "userx" clicks on the "heart" button of my "alifa98/example-repo/" repository, we redirect him/her to a custom web page "https://paymentCompany.xyz/exmaple-repo-of-ali.html," after payment we will call GitHub "add sponsor" API which adds the "userx" to the sponsor list of "alifa98/example-repo/". Another way of showing the sponsor list could be adding another button next to the heart button that links to this repo's custom sponsor list page; in this case, we do not need to call the "add sponsor" API.

There are countries such as Iran that will never (at least in the next couple of years, because of sanctions) connect to the world payment networks (I don't know what the technical term is), so we can't support Iranian repositories properly and formally.

Currently, we can't pay in another currency or use PayPal. Still, if GitHub develops this service and allows us to add links, we could support Iranian repositories with internal payment services without any problem.

A drawback that comes to mind is fake payment pages for phishing attacks. But I think it will not be a problem for repositories that we want to support. we barely financially support unknown small repositories created just a few days ago. :)

UPDATE: The custom link is available in the GitHub repositories, but there is no API or button for the list of sponsors.

Thanks,
Ali

[cheshire137]

The custom link is available in the GitHub repositories, but there is no API or button for the sponsor's list.

Hi there! I'm a dev on the Sponsors team at GitHub. This is a good point, thank you! I'll open an issue internally to track exposing a repository's funding links via the API.

For reference for anyone else reading this, https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository describes how to show a custom URL in the list when clicking the "Sponsor" button on your repository.

[cheshire137]

The custom link is available in the GitHub repositories, but there is no API or button for the sponsor's list.

It looks like this is in the GraphQL API already! Try this query for example:

query {
  repository(name:"freeCodeCamp", owner:"freeCodeCamp") {
    fundingLinks {
      platform
      url
    }
  }
}

Try it here: https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/explorer. See https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/objects#repository for a reference.

[alifa98]

This is not the list of sponsors I think

[cheshire137]

Are you asking about sponsors of a particular repository? You can't sponsor a repo in particular, you just sponsor the owner in general, so either a user or an organization. You can look up the sponsors of a user or org (the ones whose sponsorships are visible to you) via the Sponsorable.sponsors connection (see https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/interfaces#sponsorable), Sponsorable.sponsorshipsAsMaintainer, and Sponsorable.sponsorshipsAsSponsor. If you happen to be either the sponsor or the maintainer in the sponsorship, the fields Sponsorable.sponsorshipForViewerAsSponsor and Sponsorable.sponsorshipForViewerAsSponsorable might be of use.

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