# Can badges be awarded by an external site?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-badges-be-awarded-by-an-external-site/18004>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [24.Июль.2014 17:03:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-badges-be-awarded-by-an-external-site/18004 "2014-07-24T17:03:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [24.Июль.2014 21:34:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-badges-be-awarded-by-an-external-site/18004/2 "2014-07-24T21:34:09Z")

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Wondering about this too. I noticed there’s a “[Contributor](https://meta.discourse.org/badges/107/contributor)” badge with the following description:

> contributed an accepted pull request

Maybe it’s manual right now, but to automate that one would have to hook Discourse up with the GitHub API.

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