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key: Liberapay
title: Integrating with LiberaPay
parent: Integrations
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This article will guide you through integrating your Codeberg's projects with [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com), a platform that helps open-source developers receive donations.
After [signing up for an account](https://liberapay.com/sign-up) and setting up all the necessary financial information, you will be able to use **widgets**.
Widgets are small icons that can be used in places like Markdown documents. In the context of Liberapay, you can use widgets to:
- draw attention to the fact that you accept donations over Liberapay and that users can contribute to your project financially
- show how many people contribute to your project
- how much money in donations you receive from users on a weekly basis
## Obtaining a LiberaPay widgets
1. Login to [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com)
2. Click on your profile picture on the top right of the page
3. A dropdown menu will appear. Click on **Widgets** button.
After clicking on the **Widgets** button, you should be able to see a page full of the widgets that Liberapay provides!
In order to embed a widget in a **Markdown document** using Markdown itself, we will take a few extra steps in the following section.
## Modifying Liberapay widget for Markdown
{% admonition "Info" "Liberapay HTML code" %}
**Markdown documents** are not limited to repositories (such as `README.md` files). Codeberg is an instance of Forgejo, and Forgejo lets you use Markdown on README files, your profile's biography, as well as an organization's description.
{% endadmonition %}
In the following steps, we will show you how to convert the HTML code displayed on Liberapay's website into Markdown. As an example, we will use the **"Donation Button"** widget for the user `Codeberg`; make sure to replace `Codeberg` with your own username!
The HTML code for the widget should look like this:
```html
```
There are two URLs that we can extract from that code:
- The URL pointing to your Liberapay profile: `https://liberapay.com/Codeberg/donate`
- The URL of the widget's SVG file: `https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg`
Using these two URLs, we can embed that widget in Markdown format using the following Markdown code:
```markdown
[](https://liberapay.com/Codeberg/donate)
```
Since this document is authored in Markdown (and rendered to HTML), we can just use that code to show how the final result will look like:
[](https://liberapay.com/Codeberg/donate)
## Excursus: Images and Markdown
In case you are unfamiliar with Markdown links, they look like this: `[Example Link](https://example.com)`
To embed an image, you can include its link and **prepend an exclamation mark**: ``
By combining the two, we can embed an image and make it link to an external page when clicked: `[](https://example.com)`
## Shields.io Badges
Liberapay also offers shields.io widgets, which are more dynamic than the simple "Donation Button" widget. They can be found at the bottom of the **Widgets** page.
{% admonition "Info" "shields.io Documentation" %}
[**shields.io**](https://shields.io) also provides its own documentation for Liberapay icons:
- ["Giving" widget](https://shields.io/badges/liberapay-giving)
- ["Goal progress" widget](https://shields.io/badges/liberapay-goal-progress)
- ["Patrons" widget](https://shields.io/badges/liberapay-patrons)
- ["Receiving" widget](https://shields.io/badges/liberapay-receiving)
{% endadmonition %}
An example on including these badges in Markdown will follow. To use them, you will need to replace `{desired badge}` with one of the four options:
- `gives`
- `goal`
- `patrons`
- `receives`
(Don't forget to replace `Codeberg` with your own username!)
```markdown
[](https://liberapay.com/{your username}/donate)
```
For clarity's sake, this is how the code for the `receives` widget should look like for the user `Codeberg`...
```markdown
[![LiberaPay](https://img.shields.io/liberapay/receives/codeberg.svg?logo=liberapay")](https://liberapay.com/codeberg/donate)
```
... and this is how the final result should look like:
[![LiberaPay](https://img.shields.io/liberapay/receives/codeberg.svg?logo=liberapay")](https://liberapay.com/codeberg/donate)
## Embedding Liberapay badges in profiles and organizations
As mentioned before, it is currently possible to include Liberapay badges in profiles and organizations by embedding the Markdown code in descriptions.
### Profile Descriptions
1. Go to [your user settings](https://codeberg.org/user/settings)
2. Copy and paste the [Markdown code for the widget](#markdown-widget) in your Biography.
For more information on profile customization, take a look at the ["Profile customization" in Forgejo's documentation](https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/profile/).
## Organization Descriptions
1. Go to your organization's settings
2. Again, just put the Markdown code in there.
```
There are two URLs that we can extract from that code:
- The URL pointing to your Liberapay profile: `https://liberapay.com/Codeberg/donate`
- The URL of the widget's SVG file: `https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg`
Using these two URLs, we can embed that widget in Markdown format using the following Markdown code:
```markdown
[](https://liberapay.com/Codeberg/donate)
```
Since this document is authored in Markdown (and rendered to HTML), we can just use that code to show how the final result will look like:
[](https://liberapay.com/Codeberg/donate)
## Excursus: Images and Markdown
In case you are unfamiliar with Markdown links, they look like this: `[Example Link](https://example.com)`
To embed an image, you can include its link and **prepend an exclamation mark**: ``
By combining the two, we can embed an image and make it link to an external page when clicked: `[](https://example.com)`
## Shields.io Badges
Liberapay also offers shields.io widgets, which are more dynamic than the simple "Donation Button" widget. They can be found at the bottom of the **Widgets** page.
