New App: JSON Status for Tidbyt

[wojciechka]

Displays JSON Status for one or more items by fetching a provided URL.

Retrieves a JSON with progress status that may return up to 4 elements, showing status of each element on the Tidbyt display.

[wojciechka]

This currently works if the URL is set to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wojciechka/community/feat/jsonstatus/apps/jsonstatus/example-status.json but should work with the default URL once the PR is merged.

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[wojciechka]

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[matslina]

Hey @wojciechka. Thanks for the contribution!

As much as I like the idea (and the code, and the design), I'm afraid we currently can't merge apps that make http calls to fully user-provided URLs. This policy is in place to keep our backend from being used to spam or otherwise cause trouble. I hope we can come up with a reasonable way around this in the future, but we're not there right now.

[wojciechka]

Hey @wojciechka. Thanks for the contribution!

As much as I like the idea (and the code, and the design), I'm afraid we currently can't merge apps that make http calls to fully user-provided URLs. This policy is in place to keep our backend from being used to spam or otherwise cause trouble. I hope we can come up with a reasonable way around this in the future, but we're not there right now.

Oh, I did not think that you're running this on the backend, not the device, I assumed that which is why I thought the URL has to be publicly accessible, but that would make sense that it's a security issue on your end.

What if I would limit this to specific website or websites. For example GitHub gists (just an example, here the problem would probably be API limits without a GitHub token) or a pastebin-like service that would allow API-based updates? I'd have to research which service(s) allow that, but would that even be a viable alternative?

This way I and perhaps others could push status / updates using an API and the Tidbyt app would just fetch the current status, hopefully without authentication.

One other alternative is for me to create a simple service for this purpose, perhaps with simple CRUD to add/remove progress indicators, but I am not sure I want to build an entire service, with auth and everything, just for the purpose of seeing status on Tidbyt.

[matslina]

Hey! Yeah, limiting it to fetching data from certain sites where we can reason about request rates and limits would be a path forward.

[wojciechka]

Hey! Yeah, limiting it to fetching data from certain sites where we can reason about request rates and limits would be a path forward.

Ok. I think it's better I ask before I spend more time on this.

Would limiting it to MongoDB Atlas work?

It has a free plan, data API that is rest and would make it easy to fetch the data.

Then the schema for the widget would be to ask for token (same as todoistnext is doing it) and any other parameters needed to make the calls.

I could also add snippets on how to initialize a database to README.

Would that work?

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