GitHub Gadget for Blogger

github.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Module>
    <ModulePrefs title="GitHub Activity" />
    <UserPref name="username" display_name="GitHub Username" required="true" />
    <Content type="html">
    <![CDATA[
        <h2>GitHub Activity</h2>
        <div id="github-activity"></div>
        
<script type="text/javascript">

var prefs = new gadgets.Prefs();

window.renderGitHubWidget = function(github) {
    var html = '<div class="widget"><h2>GitHub Activity</h2><ul>';
    var MONTHS = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
    for (var i=0; i<github.data.length; i++) {
        var item = github.data[i];
        var date = new Date(item.created_at);
        var date_str = MONTHS[date.getMonth()] + ' ' + date.getDate();
        var url = 'https://github.com/' + item.repo.name;
        
        if (item.type === 'PushEvent') {
            url += '/commit/' + item.payload.head;
        }
        
        var repo = '<a href="' + url + '" target="_blank">' + item.repo.name + '</a>';
        
        if (item.type === 'CreateEvent') {
            html += '<li>' + date_str + ': created ' + repo + '</li>';
        } else if (item.type === 'PushEvent') {
            html += '<li>' + date_str + ': pushed ' + item.payload.size + ' commit to ' + repo + '</li>';
        }
    }
    
    html += '</ul></div>';
    
    var el = document.createElement('div');
    el.innerHTML = html;
    
    document.getElementById('github-activity').appendChild(el);
};

gadgets.util.registerOnLoadHandler(function() {
    var URL = 'https://api.github.com/users/' + prefs.getString('username') + '/events?callback=renderGitHubWidget';
    var script = document.createElement('script');
    script.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
    script.setAttribute('src', URL);
    document.head.appendChild(script);
});

</script>

    ]]>
    </Content>
</Module>

Both Google Gadget Editor and Validator appear to be dead - in the end, I gave up, pasted my code directly into a custom HTML gadget, which worked perfectly.

Good try... it is not working for me one year later.... nevermind... thx for your work