Is there any real order for badges on different Stack Exchange sites?

Question

So I was recently trying to look up how much a certain badge was awarded on different sites when I noticed, that the badge URLs work on indexes and not on names.

For example the URL to the Unsung Hero badge on Stack Overflow: https://www.stackoverflow.com/help/badges/226/unsung-hero

And the URL to the Unsung Hero badge on Ask Different: https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/badges/35/unsung-hero

On Stack Overflow, it's 226, on Ask Different 35. With different sites, it's completely different numbers.

Is there any real order to those indexes or is it listed anywhere?

Answer 1

The main problem here is that different sites have different badges when it comes to tag badges. On larger sites, they have been earned more, so new badges like Unsung Hero had to have higher numbers.

The Badges table in SEDE does have an Id column but that's more like an identifier for the award to a particular user, i.e. it corresponds to this page. The API doesn't provide an identifier either.

If you do need a list, I fear you have to scrape a couple of pages:

• the list of badges
• the list of all bronze tag badges
• the list of all silver tag badges
• the list of all gold tag badges

Fortunately, they aren't paginated, not even on Stack Overflow.

Answer 2

I cannot provide order but I can provide a table where you are able to look the IDs up manually or programmatically. I just made a community wiki post about it.