Dashing Pocket widget

README.md

Description

A Dashing widget for displaying the number of unread links in a Pocket account.

See a live demo here.

Usage

Setup the following environment variables:

• POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY
• POCKET_ACCESS_TOKEN

See instructions here to learn how your consumer key and access token.

Dependencies

pocket-ruby

Add it to your Dashing application's Gemfile:

gem 'pocket-ruby'

and run bundle install.

pocket.erb

<li data-row="1" data-col="2" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="email" data-view="Number" data-title="Email"></div>
</li>

pocket.rb

require 'pocket-ruby'

SCHEDULER.every "30m" do
  Pocket.configure do |config|
    config.consumer_key = ENV["POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY"]
  end
  client = Pocket.client(:access_token => ENV["POCKET_ACCESS_TOKEN"])
  info = client.retrieve(:detailType => :simple, :state => :unread)
  send_event("pocket", { current: info["list"].count })
end