These extensions for [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/custom-new-tab-page) and [Chrome & Friends](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-changer/occbjkhimchkolibngmcefpjlbknggfh) allow you to have your homer dashboard in your new tab page, while leaving focus on the address bar meaning you can still type right away if you want to search or go to a page that is not on your homer dash.
-The firefox extension loads Homer in an iframe on your new tab page, meaning you have to add `target: '_top'` to each of your items.
+The Firefox extension loads Homer in an iframe on your new tab page, meaning you have to add `target: '_top'` to each of your items.
```yaml
- name: "Reddit"
## YAML Anchors
#### `by @JamiePhonic`
-Since Homer is configured using YAML, it supports all of YAML's helpful fetaures, such as anchoring!
+Since Homer is configured using YAML, it supports all of YAML's helpful features, such as anchoring!
For example, you can define tags and tag styles for each "item" in a service.
Using Anchoring, you can define all your tags and their styles once like this: (for example)
```yaml
- name: "VS Code"
logo: "/assets/vscode.png"
- subtitle: "Develope Code Anywhere, On Anything!"
- <<: *App # Regerence to the predefined "App" Tag
+ subtitle: "Develop Code Anywhere, On Anything!"
+ <<: *App # Reference to the predefined "App" Tag
url: "https://vscode.example.com/"
target: "_blank" # optional html tag target attribute
````
-Then when Homer reads your config, it will substitute your anchors automatically, the the above example is equal to:
+Then when Homer reads your config, it will substitute your anchors automatically, the above example is equal to:
```yaml
- name: "VS Code"
logo: "/assets/vscode.png"
- subtitle: "Develope Code Anywhere, On Anything!"
+ subtitle: "Develop Code Anywhere, On Anything!"
tag: "App"
tagstyle: "is-medium is-info"
url: "https://vscode.example.com/"
target: "_blank" # optional html tag target attribute
```
-The end result is that if you want to update the name or style of any perticular tag, just update it once, in the tags section!
+The end result is that if you want to update the name or style of any particular tag, just update it once, in the tags section!
Great if you have a lot of services or a lot of tags!
## Remotely edit your config with Code Server
#### `by @JamiePhonic`
-Homer doesn't yet provide a way to edit your configuration from inside Homer itself, but that doesnt mean it cant be done!
+Homer doesn't yet provide a way to edit your configuration from inside Homer itself, but that doesn't mean it can't be done!
You can setup and use [Code-Server](https://github.com/cdr/code-server) to edit your `config.yml` file from anywhere!
If you're running Homer in docker, you can setup a Code-Server container and pass your homer config directory into it.
-Simply pass your homer config directory as and extra -v parameter to your code-server container:
+Simply pass your homer config directory as an extra -v parameter to your code-server container:
```
-v '/your/local/homer/config-dir/':'/config/homer':'rw'
```
As a bonus, Code-Server puts the "current folder" as a parameter in the URL bar, so you could add a `links:` entry in Homer that points to your code-server instance with the directory pre-filled for essentially 1 click editing!
-For example:
+For example:
```yml
links:
- name: Edit config
## Get the news headlines in Homer
+
+### Mapping Fields
+Most times, the url you're getting headlines from follows a different schema than the one expected by Homer.
+
+For example, if you would like to show jokes from ChuckNorris.io, you'll find that the url https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random is giving you info like this:
+
+```json
+{
+ "categories": [],
+ "created_at": "2020-01-05 13:42:22.089095",
+ "icon_url": "https://assets.chucknorris.host/img/avatar/chuck-norris.png",
+ "id": "MR2-BnMBR667xSpQBIleUg",
+ "updated_at": "2020-01-05 13:42:22.089095",
+ "url": "https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/MR2-BnMBR667xSpQBIleUg",
+ "value": "Chuck Norris can quitely sneak up on himself"
+}
+```
+
+but... you need that info to be transformed to something like this:
+
+```json
+{
+ "title": "MR2-BnMBR667xSpQBIleUg",
+ "content": "Chuck Norris can quitely sneak up on himself"
+}
+```
+
+Now, you can do that using the `mapping` field in your `message` configuration. This example would be something like this:
+
+```yml
+message:
+ url: https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random
+ mapping:
+ title: 'id'
+ content: 'value'
+```
+
+As you would see, using the ID as a title doesn't seem nice, that's why when a field is empty it would keep the default values, like this:
+
+```yml
+message:
+ url: https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random
+ mapping:
+ content: 'value'
+ title: "Chuck Norris Facts!"
+```
+
+and even an error message in case the `url` didn't respond or threw an error:
+
+```yml
+message:
+ url: https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random
+ mapping:
+ content: 'value'
+ title: "Chuck Norris Facts!"
+ content: "Message could not be loaded"
+```
+
#### `by @JamiePhonic`
Homer allows you to set a "message" that will appear at the top of the page, however, you can also supply a `url:`.
To get started, simply import [this flow](https://flows.nodered.org/flow/4b6406c9a684c26ace0430dd1826e95d) into your Node-Red instance and change the RSS feed in the "Get News RSS Feed" node to one of your choosing!
-So far, the flow has been tested with BBC News and Sky News, however it should be easy to modify the flow to work with other RSS feeds if they dont work out of the box!
+So far, the flow has been tested with BBC News and Sky News, however it should be easy to modify the flow to work with other RSS feeds if they don't work out of the box!
projects / github / bastienwirtz / homer.git / blobdiff