# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Limor Fried for Adafruit Industries # # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT """ This example will access the reddit API, grab a number like subreddit followers and display it on a screen If you can find something that spits out JSON data, we can display it! """ import time import board from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal SUBREDDIT = "circuitpython" # Set up where we'll be fetching data from DATA_SOURCE = "https://www.reddit.com/r/"+SUBREDDIT+"/about.json" DATA_LOCATION = ["data", "subscribers"] CAPTION="reddit.com/r/"+SUBREDDIT # the current working directory (where this file is) cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0] pyportal = PyPortal(url=DATA_SOURCE, json_path=DATA_LOCATION, status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL, default_bg=cwd+"/reddit_background.bmp", text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Collegiate-50.bdf", text_position=(210, 80), text_color=0xFFFFFF, caption_text=CAPTION, caption_font=cwd+"/fonts/Collegiate-24.bdf", caption_position=(40, 200), caption_color=0xFFFFFF) # track the last value so we can play a sound when it updates last_value = 0 while True: try: value = pyportal.fetch() print("Response is", value) if last_value < value: # ooh it went up! print("New subscriber!") pyportal.play_file(cwd+"/coin.wav") last_value = value except (ValueError, RuntimeError, ConnectionError, OSError) as e: print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e) time.sleep(60)