https://github.com/iandioch/ceres

A homepage / online business card that updates with live data
https://github.com/iandioch/ceres

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A homepage / online business card that updates with live data

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/iandioch/ceres
• Owner: iandioch
• Created: 2016-10-25T22:56:55.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-24T21:50:16.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-15T19:32:17.965Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: euler, homepage, lastfm, scraper, twitter, website
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: http://noah.needs.money
• Size: 451 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 6
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Ceres

This is a dumbly-named repo containing the scripts that power my live-updating

website, viewable [here](http://noah.needs.money).

The website is built with Flask. It is made up of a core template (see

`/templates/index.html`), which is rendered when the path `/` is requested.

There is a directory `/raw`; everything in here is served as-is from the path

`/raw/`. In here are some useful files (CV, etc), along with the

favicon, and `cards.js`, which is referred to from the core template. This JS

makes a request every 30 seconds to `/cards`.

If you view the live website, you will see that there are a number of sections

("cards") with live-updating data. Eg. the last-played song on Last.fm, my most

recent tweet, etc. All of this live data is what is returned from the `/cards`

endpoint, as JSON.

Cards are listed in the `cards` directory. Each contains some script file, which

is added to the crontab on the machine the website is running on. Each script

file simply, when triggered, does some lookup, and outputs a `data.json` file

in the same directory as the script. The server then collates all of these

`data.json` files and returns them when the `/cards` path is queried.

From this combination of cronjobs and python scripts, live(-ish) data is served.