This Sinatra app can be used to pull traffic analytics from GitHub's Gauges, feed analytics from FeedPress, website monitoring from Vigil and user informations from GitHub and display them on your Status Board.
The easiest (and free) way to deploy this app is Heroku, for which instructions are provided, but Status Board Widgets can be deployed anywhere that supports Ruby.
If you created an Heroku account and have the Heroku Toolbelt installed, all you need to do is:
$ git clone git@github.com:coding-chimp/status-board-widgets.git
$ cd status-board-widgets
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
If you want to use the /github/streak endpoint, there are a few more things you need to do.
First you'll need to add a database:
$ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev
Which will return something like: Attached as HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_GOLD_URL
The HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_GOLD_URL part can differ for you and is the important part for the next command:
$ heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_GOLD
$ heroku run rake db:migrate
Then you need create a GitHub API access token and add it and your username to your Heroku environment:
$ heroku config:set GITHUB_USERNAME=<your-github-username>
$ heroku config:set GITHUB_TOKEN=<your-github-api-token>
Now you'll add a task to ping GitHub's activity stream:
$ heroku addons:add scheduler
$ heroku addons:open scheduler
Add a task that runs rake fetch_today every 10 minutes.
This will make sure the app is up to date in the future. If you want the app to fetch some past data, you can run:
$ heroku run rake fetch_history
Currently, there are six different endpoints supported:
The /traffic endpoint returns a graph with page views for one or multiple gauges. To use it, just add a Graph panel to your status board an point it to:
http://your-app.herokuapp.com/traffic?api_key=<your-api-key>&gauge1=<your-first-gauge-id>&gauge2=<your-second-gauge-id>
For a single gauge it will display views + people and for multiple gauges it will only display the views. As a default the graph will be displayed as a linegraph. If you'd like a bargraph, just append &type=bar to the request URI.
The /subscribers/graph endpoint returns a graph with subscriber counts for one or multiple feeds from FeedPress. To use it, just add a Graph panel to your status board an point it to:
http://your-app.herokuapp.com/subscribers/graph?api_key=<your-api-key>&token=<your-api-token>&feed1=<your-first-feed-name>&feed2=<your-second-feed-name>
For a single page it will display more detailed statistiks (greader, other, direct) and for multiple pages it will only display the total subscribers.
As a default the graph will be displayed as a linegraph. If you'd like a bargraph, just append &type=bar to the request URI.
The default date format is day.month (eg. 21.6.). If you instead want your dates to be formatted as month–day (eg. 6–21), just append &dateformat=us to the URI request.
You can also specify the min and max values of the y-axis by appending for example &minValue=50 and maxValue=150 to the URI request.
The /subscribers/table endpoint returns a table with subscriber counts for one or multiple feeds from FeedPress. To use it, just add a DIY panel to your status board an point it to:
http://your-app.herokuapp.com/subscribers/table?api_key=<your-api-key>&token=<your-api-token>&feed1=<your-first-feed-name>&feed2=<your-second-feed-name>
Vigil does already give you an Status Board table, if you have an account. It uses, however, the standard Status Board table layout, which may be fine for the TV, but on the iPad alone I find it way to big. The /vigil endpoint retunrs a table, which is basically a remodelling the official Vigil table to make it a bit smaller. To use it, just add a DIY panel to your status board an point it to:
http://your-app.herokuapp.com/vigil?user=<your-user-id>
If you look at the link Vigil gives you for your Status Board, it looks like this:
panicboard://?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.vigil-app.com%2Fv1%2Fuser%2<some-hexadecimal-number-with-dashes>%2Fhost%3FpopulateHostMonitors%26output%3Dhtml&panel=table&sourceDisplayName=Vigil
This <hexadecimal-number-with-dashes> is <your-user-id>.
The /github endpoint gives you a little GitHub dashboard with your followers, following, public repos and public gists counts. The easiest way to use it is, adding a DIY panel to your status board an point it to:
http://your-app.herokuapp.com/github?username=<your-github-username>
If you also want to see how many unread notifications are waiting for you, you'll have to craeate an API access token and either add it to the url:
http://your-app.herokuapp.com/github?username=<your-github-username>&token=<your-github-api-token>
or add your username and API token to your Heroku environment like discribed in the additional configuration and point the panel to:
http://your-app.herokuapp.com/github
If you set your app up for using the /github/streak endpoint, you can, of course, just use the last url.
The /github/streak endpoint shows you your current streak of days you commited code to GitHub. To use this endpoint, you have to set the app up like described in additional configuration. After that, you can just add a DIY panel to your status board and point it to:
http://your-app.herokuapp.com/github/streak
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.