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A fedmsg widget for your site

Apr 01, 2014 | categories: fedmsg, widgetry, fedora, datagrepper View Comments

Not an April Fool's joke: more cool fedmsg tools from the Fedora Infrastructure Team: the datagrepper app now provides a little self-expanding javascript widget that you can embed on your blog or website. I have it installed on my blog; if you look there (here?), it should show up on the right hand side of the screen.

Here's the example from the datagrepper docs:

<html>
  <body>
    <h1>My Site</h1>
    <p class="lead">Welcome to my site.</p>
    <p>Here is my latest Fedora activity:</p>

    <script
      id="datagrepper-widget"
      src="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/datagrepper/widget.js?css=true"
      data-user="ralph"
      data-rows_per_page="40">
    </script>

    <footer>Happy Hacking!</footer>
  </body>
</html>

Just copy-and-paste that into a file called testing-stuff.html on your machine, and then open that file in your browser. You should see something like this:

http://threebean.org/blog/static/images/datagrepper-widget-user.png

Like the docs say, you can change the data- attributes on the <script> tag to perform different kinds of queries. For instance, the following would render a widget showing only Bodhi events about the Firefox package:

<script
  id="datagrepper-widget"
  src="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/datagrepper/widget.js?css=true"
  data-category="bodhi"
  data-package="firefox"
  data-rows_per_page="20">
</script>

You might want to include such a thing on a status page for a project you're working on.

http://threebean.org/blog/static/images/datagrepper-widget-bodhi.png

You can make queries about all the fedmsg topics (see the fedmsg docs for the full list), topics like org.fedoraproject.prod.fedbadges.badge.award which would render a feed of the latest Fedora Badges awards:

<script
  id="datagrepper-widget"
  src="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/datagrepper/widget.js?css=true"
  data-topic="org.fedoraproject.prod.fedbadges.badge.award"
  data-rows_per_page="40">
</script>
http://threebean.org/blog/static/images/datagrepper-widget-badges.png

Please let me know in #fedora-apps on freenode if you have any questions (or if you find some cool use for it -- I love hearing that stuff).

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