Reddit Widget for Dashing

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Description

Took a little inspiration from the News widget to construct this Reddit widget. Simply add the subreddit .json feed URLs that you want to the top of the reddit.rb job script, and the widget will cycle through each one, showing top posts, their score, and comment count. You can also set the maxcount higher or lower, the default is 5 posts.

##Usage

To use this widget, copy reddit.html, reddit.coffee, and reddit.scss into the /widgets/reddit directory. Put the reddit.rb file in your /jobs folder.

To include the widget in a dashboard, add the following snippet to the dashboard layout file:

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="4" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="reddit" data-view="Reddit"></div>
</li>

reddit.coffee

class Dashing.Reddit extends Dashing.Widget
  ready: ->
    @currentIndex = 0
    @titleElem = $(@node).find('.subreddit-title')
    @dataElem = $(@node).find('.subreddit-data')
    @top_posts = @get('posts')
    @nextSubreddit()
    @startCarousel()

  onData: (data) ->
    @currentIndex = 0

  startCarousel: ->
    setInterval(@nextSubreddit, 8000)

  nextSubreddit: =>
    if @top_posts
      @dataElem.fadeOut =>
        @set 'posts', @top_posts[@currentIndex]
        @titleElem.fadeIn()
        @dataElem.fadeIn()
        @currentIndex = (@currentIndex + 1) % @top_posts.length

reddit.html

<h3>reddit</h3>

<table class="reddit-posts">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th class="subreddit-title" data-bind="posts.label" colspan="3">Loading...</th>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th class="post-title">Title</th>
      <th class="post-upvotes">Upvotes</th>
      <th class="post-comments">Comments</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>

  <tbody class="subreddit-data">
    <tr data-foreach-item="posts.items">
      <td class="post-title" data-bind="item.title"></td>
      <td class="post-score" data-bind="item.score"></td>
      <td class="post-comments" data-bind="item.comments"></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>

  <tfoot></tfoot>
</table>

reddit.rb

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

class Reddit
  def initialize()
    # add your desired subreddits here
    @subreddits = {
      '/r/programming' => 'http://www.reddit.com/r/programming.json',
      '/r/webdev' => 'http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev.json',
      '/r/drupal' => 'http://www.reddit.com/r/drupal.json',
      '/r/ruby' => 'http://www.reddit.com/r/ruby.json',
    }

    # the limit per subreddit to grab
    @maxcount = 5
  end

  def getTopPostsPerSubreddit()
    posts = [];

    @subreddits.each do |subreddit, url|
      response = JSON.parse(Net::HTTP.get(URI(url)))

      if !response
        puts "reddit communication error for #{@subreddit} (shrug)"
      else
        items = []

        for i in 0..@maxcount
          title = response['data']['children'][i]['data']['title']
          trimmed_title = title[0..85].gsub(/\s\w+$/, '...')

          items.push({
            title: trimmed_title,
            score: response['data']['children'][i]['data']['score'],
            comments: response['data']['children'][i]['data']['num_comments']
          })
        end

        posts.push({ label: 'Current top posts in "' + subreddit + '"', items: items })
      end
    end

    posts
  end
end

@Reddit = Reddit.new();

SCHEDULER.every '2m', :first_in => 0 do |job|
  posts = @Reddit.getTopPostsPerSubreddit
  send_event('reddit', { :posts => posts })
end

reddit.scss

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Sass declarations
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$background-color:  #12b0c5;
$title-color:       rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);
$moreinfo-color:    rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Widget-list styles
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
.widget-reddit {
  background-color: $background-color;
  vertical-align: top !important;

  .title {
    color: $title-color;
  }

  th, td {
    text-align: left;
  }

  td.post-title {
    max-width: 350px;
  }

  .updated-at {
    color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
  }

  .more-info {
    color: $moreinfo-color;
  }
}

@MaxCount doesn't seem to work properly. If set to 1, I still get 2 posts.

In addition, when the scheduler runs the "getTopPostsPerSubreddit" my entire widget goes blank (no data) until it refreshes. Any ideas?

In addition, when the scheduler runs the "getTopPostsPerSubreddit" my entire widget goes blank (no data) until it refreshes.

Reddit.rb does not work.

My dashboard's reddit widget hasn't updated since I installed it. Refreshes, restarting the service. Do dice.

line 5 in reddit.rb.
You should remove the ',' if you want to be able to use the widget since it's the last element of the hash.

sorry i meant line 11

I changed the reddits to display in the .rb file, restarted, and the default reddits are still showing. I'm out of ideas.