# Numeric badge from external source in users profile

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/numeric-badge-from-external-source-in-users-profile/208076 "2021-11-03T04:21:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/numeric-badge-from-external-source-in-users-profile/208076/2 "2021-11-03T08:38:48Z")

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Create a user custom field. You can then push a value into it with the API.

But I think you want to do it in a plugin and pull the data with ruby, not javascript.

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