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Topic: New widget category or list?

Given that we are getting some activity in the catalog, I'd love to see a category on http://chumby.com/guide listing new and updated widgets.  An RSS feed would also be exciting too.

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Re: New widget category or list?

There are several RSS feeds already supported by the system:

http://www.chumby.com/rss/recentwidgets
http://www.chumby.com/rss/popularwidgets
http://www.chumby.com/rss/randomwidgets
http://www.chumby.com/rss/updatedwidgets
http://www.chumby.com/rss/highest_rated
http://www.chumby.com/rss/chumby_picks
http://www.chumby.com/rss/featured

There are a couple of widgets that use these feeds.

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Re: New widget category or list?

The old site used to have a sidebar that showed a few of these lists.  That code is currently commented out, perhaps I can bring it back.

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4 Reply by unwiredben (edited by unwiredben 2014-11-01 09:32:09)

  • From: Austin, TX
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Re: New widget category or list?

Sweet!  We can just stick the feeds on the wiki for now.  Unfortunately, it looks like the links on those feeds are directly to the SWF files, not to the chumby.com landing page showing the widget and allowing it to be added to a channel. 

I went ahead and made a Yahoo! Pipe of the updated one, converting the link based on the guid field.  See http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_ … render=rss

Here's the pipe link for the recent widgets list, http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_ … ender=rss, but it wasn't updating for me due to a Yahoo proxy issue that should be fixed soon.

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  • From: Dallas, Tx
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Re: New widget category or list?

unwiredben wrote:

I went ahead and made a Yahoo! Pipe of the updated one, converting the link based on the guid field.

nice, thanks!

Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.