Rough example of how to push data into Ducksboard from the Preact API. We run something like this every hour to keep our Ducksboard dashboard up to date. Put in your api_key and secret from https://secure.preact.io/settings/api. For each of the push_duck calls, you pass in the ID from the widget edit page (e.g. 140456 from this screen http://cl.…

push_ducksboard.rb

def update_ducksboard
  api_key = ""
  api_secret = ""
  url = "https://#{api_key}:#{api_secret}@api.preact.io/api/v2/insights/health"
  data = RestClient.get "#{url}", :content_type => :json, :accept => :json

  accounts = data["accounts"]

  # boxes
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", accounts["good"]) # good account health
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", accounts["fair"]) # fair account health
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", accounts["poor"]) # poor account health

  # stacked chart
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", accounts["good"])
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", accounts["fair"])
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", accounts["poor"])

  # people
  people = data["people"]

  # boxes
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", people["high"]) # high churn risk
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", people["medium"]) # medium churn risk
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", people["low"]) # low churn risk

  # stacked chart
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", people["high"])
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", people["medium"])
  push_duck("YOUR_DATAPOINT_ID", people["low"])

end
  

def push_duck(key, val)
  auth_key = "YOUR_DUCKSBOARD_API_KEY"
  url_base = "https://#{auth_key}:x@push.ducksboard.com/values/"
  RestClient.post "#{url_base}#{key}", { :value => val }.to_json, :content_type => :json, :accept => :json
  puts "\t#{key}: #{val}"
end