Free GitHub stars badge for any website

Shields.io renders a flat SVG via 3rd-party requests on every page load and counts against your repo's GitHub API quota. Star-history.com is heavyweight. This badge is a 4 KB script tag — pulls the live stargazer count from GitHub's public API, caches it server-side for 6 hours, and shows '★ 42.3k stars' as a crisp pill in 6 themes. Free, no signup, no API key.