How to set up your own mirror for tokei web service

• Create a free Render account
• Go to Dashboard
• Click on New Web Service
• Paste https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei_rs into the Enter a public repository URL field
• Fill in these fields with the following values
  • Name : tokei
  • Environment : Rust
  • Region : <Choose the nearest region to your geographical area>
  • Build Command : cargo build --release --jobs 1
  • Start Command : cargo run --release --jobs 1
  • Leave everything else as the default; the free plan is good enough. 😄
• Finally, click Create Web Service and wait for it to compile ⏱️

Creating your badge

Follow instructions at the tokei_rs repository; substitute tokei.rs with your Render server URL.

Known issues

Getting 403 errors with ghcr.io?

In deploy.yml, sometimes the default ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} may not work well with ghcr.io.

A workaround would be to fork tokei_rs, create a GitHub Personal Access Token with write:packages access enabled, no expiry date, and add it as a secret to your fork (e.g. ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}).

Deploy your fork instead of https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei_rs to Render.

Render.com web services on the free plan are automatically spun down after 15 minutes of inactivity

You can keep the web service alive by making a GET request every 10 minutes to your tokei web service.

This can be done with a Raspberry Pi or similar low-powered computer, curl, and crontab.

Credits

XAMPPRocky/tokei#881 (comment) by https://github.com/ekzhang