JSON Feed

shawn shared some links said Thu, May 18th 2017 at 1:44am ET

We just rolled out support for JSON Feed over at https://meh.com/feed.json

We’ve already had an RSS feed at https://meh.com/deals.rss and a more formal API over at https://meh.com/developers-developers-developers that several of you have used to build Meh apps, widgets, and doodads.

When JSON Feed was announced yesterday I read over the spec and thought it would be a nice, easy way to provide data access to what we’re selling on Meh every day. Go build something fun, let us know about it, and I’ll attach coupon code JSONFEED to your account.

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lichme said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 1:31am ET:

@shawn I made this, just because… it takes todays deal, converts to speech, and announces what is for sale. The UI sucks, because I just wanted POC, and I already have a better UI.

http://mehstalker.com/tts/

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- @lichme
  
  Needs more purple in the background.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 1:33am ET
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- @PlacidPenguin Done!
  
  lichme said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 1:35am ET
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- @Barney
  
  PlacidPenguin said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 1:38am ET
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- @lichme coupon code JSONFEED for $10 added to your account. Expires at the end of the month.
  
  shawn said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 1:49am ET
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- @lichme Please to make it say “buy me” at the end. K thx bye
  
  Pavlov said Sun, May 21st 2017 at 12:05am ET
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- @lichme
  
  Any chance you could incorporate other voices?
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, May 21st 2017 at 12:08am ET
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- @Pavlov Done
  
  lichme said Sun, May 21st 2017 at 12:18am ET
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- @PlacidPenguin Not the way I am currently doing it, but it is possible.
  
  lichme said Sun, May 21st 2017 at 12:20am ET
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- @lichme Thanks! “Buy me, buy me now” - Awesome!
  
  Pavlov said Sun, May 21st 2017 at 12:28am ET
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awk said Thu, May 18th 2017 at 11:22pm ET:
Well, it does make my meh command line script a few characters shorter:

Before:
```
API_KEY="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
API_URL="https://api.meh.com/1/current.json?apikey=$API_KEY"
curl -s "$API_URL" | jq -r .deal.title
```
After:
```
curl -s https://meh.com/feed.json | jq -r .items[].title
```
I know that’s not a very cool use of the feed but give me a solenoid, an Arduino, and a free afternoon, and I’ll make a machine that kills a live kitten every time the item title contains “bluetooth”.
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  You may have just helped me out with an issue I was having.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Thu, May 18th 2017 at 11:24pm ET
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  /giphy cool
  
  awk said Thu, May 18th 2017 at 11:29pm ET
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- @awk
  
  Mr Clean!!!
  
  PlacidPenguin said Thu, May 18th 2017 at 11:30pm ET
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- @awk coupon code JSONFEED for $5 added to your account. Expires at the end of the month.
  
  shawn said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 1:49am ET
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- @PlacidPenguin Hope the issue wasn’t with a live kitten.
  /image because penguins love cats.
  
  /image because cats love penguins.
  
  /image catshirts for placidpenguin?
  
  narfcake said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 2:24am ET
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- @awk cool to see someone using jq. i installed it but have never needed it.
  
  katylava said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 12:15pm ET
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- @katylava @awk jq is awesome! I was going to drop a cron job in this thread to wall me the meh at midnight, but it would have just been the same thing as @awk.
  
  brhfl said Mon, May 22nd 2017 at 10:37pm ET
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- @shawn Crap, I forgot to use my coupon
  /image sad panda
  
  awk said Tue, Jun 6th 2017 at 1:51pm ET
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- @awk I didn’t want to use mine, but did on the led pliers, because time ran out lol
  
  lichme said Wed, Jun 7th 2017 at 11:36pm ET
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curtise said Thu, May 18th 2017 at 10:49pm ET:

Okay @shawn, so I found the JSON…

But where are the RGONAUTS?

I feel like I might have been FLEECD…

Hmm…‽

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- @curtise That doesn’t look very RESTful.
  
  craigthom said Thu, Jun 8th 2017 at 1:31am ET
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PlacidPenguin said Thu, May 18th 2017 at 3:16am ET:

@shawn

Any chance that there could be a way to add the URL of the Meh face to the JSON?

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- @PlacidPenguin JSON Feed has support for extensions. If you write up an example extension I could take a look at adding it.
  
  shawn said Thu, May 18th 2017 at 8:22am ET
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- @shawn How about this:
```
"_meh": {
    "about": "https://meh.com/forum/topics/json-feed",
    "sold": "1050",
    "paused": "0",
    "soldout": "0",
    "discussion": "https://meh.com/forum/topics/2-pack-skil-secure-grip-self-tightening-box-wrench-set",
    "mehface": "https://res.cloudinary.com/mediocre/image/upload/c_pad,e_negate,f_auto,h_64,q_80,w_64/zmqamql5cmwrvxu0kyd3.png",
    "faceclicks": "3000"
}
```
  Also, if you could add the mehface/clicks to the API (if it’s not already there, I haven’t checked in a while), that would be awesome
  lichme said Fri, May 19th 2017 at 8:22am ET
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PlacidPenguin said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 8:39pm ET:

(I know it’s not as exciting as other uses, but I wanted to do this for a variety of reasons.)

In my use of the JSON feed, I have used the app Tasker to create a profile to run at midnight. At that point, the profile runs the task I created.

It accesses the Meh JSON feed, parses the item title, and sends it to a predetermined variable.

That variable then goes to Watchmaker, where a watch face has the variable located on a second screen of the watch face.

But wait! There’s more.

Formerly, I had a separate task to parse the image, but I merged the two tasks together.

It parses the item image, saves the image url to a variable, and also downloads the image (replacing the image of the previous day).

Unfortunately, at this point, I’m stuck, because Watchmaker only looks at the image I select (instead of updating every day), and I can’t use an image url.

The reason I did this has little to do with the fact that I can’t get past the 2FA on IF(TTT), and more to do with the fact that while I tend to swipe the Meh notification after a few minutes (of looking at the fun picture), by having it on a watch face, I could look at it throughout the day.

I’m still working on colors, layouts, and info shown.

In the first pic, you can see the Meh logo. Pressing that takes me to the item info screen (still deciding if I wanna include a button to open Meh.com on my phone).

Also, I think I may need to include a button to run the script manually, though I shall see at midnight.

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- I also need to figure out what I’m going to do with regards to font, size, and orientation of the item name, since the settings I have now would probably look awful for shorter named listings.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 8:47pm ET
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- (I had a different color scheme for the 3 dates on the side, but every time I looked at them, I got headaches.)
  
  PlacidPenguin said Tue, Jun 6th 2017 at 12:39am ET
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PlacidPenguin said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 6:43pm ET:

@shawn

Great news. I’ve made significant progress in what I’ve been trying to do since you released the JSON feed.

I’ll need to spend the next few days playing with it (since every day it will need to be looked at anew depending on the title of the daily item).

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PlacidPenguin said Mon, May 22nd 2017 at 12:21am ET:

Starting to think that it may just be easier for me to use a “traditional” form of coding to create a watch face for my watch to update and sync with my watch as opposed to the convoluted way which I have been working on for the last couple of days (minus a sizeable chunk of the weekend).

On the other hand, it’s not “me” to do things simple. Convoluted is the way to go.

@shawn - I hope this offer is still available in the summer of 2018.

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