Fetch URLs Remotely?

[gitgetgot]

What does it mean and how does it work?

[NoUseFreak]

@liquidx What type of input does the project expect?
Is this JSON or some CSV structure?

[alexives]

I've also been curious about this. It looks like it's expecting json, based on the code I've been able to parse, but my Objective-C isn't good enough to tell you what that json object should look like...

[WattyRev]

+1
@liquidx can you at least chime in to tell us if this feature even works?

[jzevin]

I don't know objective c but I looked at https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver/tree/master/WebViewScreenSaver and it appears that it wants JSON array so...
I've tried JSON off an AWS box with format like this:

[
{
"url": "urlstringone",
"duration": 10
},
{
"url": "urlstringtwo",
"duration": 10
}
]

Doesn't work :(

[WattyRev]

Yea, I tried the same thing without any success. Either this doesn't work at all or the format is not obvious.

[WattyRev]

I ended up with my own workaround. For my case, I just wanted to loop through youtube/vimeo videos at random. So I built an app for it and I just point webviewscreensaver to my app. Here's the repository: https://github.com/WattyRev/screen-saver

[jzevin]

Nice solution 👍🏻 @WattyRev

[moisesber]

After looking at @WattyRev and along with my quest to practice and learn more Python I decided try and build a "as simple as possible" similar workaround using Python and this is what I got (https://github.com/moisesber/fun_random_videos). Works for me so it might work for other people out there :)

[agologan]

Hasn't been working since 9adb30d .
Converted the examples list to this format for testing.

Fix is now available in v2.4