Comments on: HackHUD

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:14:52 +0000

BTW – the script started working again, without any changes. So it looks like this was a temporary change on the BBC site.

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:29:32 +0000

It looks like there’s another change on the site that’ll need re-integrating into the script. I’ll leave a note once the script is updated.

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:33:11 +0000

Hooray. HackHUD has been updated to accommodate changes to the BBC site, as well as to Greasemonkey itself.

The code is suitably hacky in parts, and more wordy than it needs to be, but it happily does the job.

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:04:09 +0000

Recent changes to the BBC News website mean that the script requires an update. I’ll post again here when a new version is available.

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:16:47 +0000

Thanks Phil. Yes, I was using Yahoo Search in the Twitter pipe to retrieve relevant tweets, but I don't think it's really appropriate for this kind of task. I've just switched it to use Terraminds' Twitter search API. Much better, methinks.

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:35:00 +0000

That’s good stuff.

Not sure about the results from the Twitter pipe. Some extra parsing needed to filter out the “are you on a mobile phone?” content.

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:40:33 +0000

Nice. I’ve added a Wikipedia option to the script, using Phil’s pipe. Thanks, Phil.

And while I was at it, I added Twitter too.

This gets me thinking that it could be useful to simplify the process for users to add a new source to the script.

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:37:19 +0000

Yay!

I hacked my local version to also include a link to Wikipedia thus:

function getWikipediaPipesData(sTags, oInfoPanel) {
getYahooPipe(‘f5092f6843f0ed59a060cd56833f4889′, sTags, 4, paramCall(standardParser, this, ['wikipedia']));
}

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:04:46 +0000

Thanks Phil. Very strange that - the Flickr pipe seems to have spontaneously combusted. I've replaced it with a new one and updated the script. The script should automatically inform you of an update within 24 hours...

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:44:12 +0000

This is totally awesome, but the Pipe for Flickr photos doesn’t seem to exist any more!