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Netvibes on the Kludget Engine
Netvibes is a great source for widgets.
I tested several of their widgets. And they look really good on the desktop.
It’s a little tricky to run Netvibes widgets. But learn these steps below and you’ll get tons of shiny widgets.
- Download UWA Widget from netvibes.com
- Open the UWA Widget or Widget Dashboard Runtime in Kludget Engine.
- Click the i button.
- Enter the Widget Url. Read about Widget Url below. This is the only tricky part.
- Click “Done”. And you’re good to go.
To add another Netvibe widget.
- Right click on a running netvibe widget on you desktop.
- Select “Create Instance”.
- And follow the same steps above.
Widget Url
In their sample RSS widget. They have the following instruction.
Apple Dashboard users: download the UWA widget, install it on your Dashboard, copy/paste the URL of the online UWA widget you want to test (don’t use a local, offline copy), and enjoy.
The URL is actually the link Check the standalone version which points to http://www.netvibes.com/api/uwa/examples/rssreader.html.
To find widgets:
- Browse widgets in http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets
- Select a widget by clicking it’s link.
- Don’t click Add to NetVibes
- The Widget URL is the link titled
Source - Copy the Link location and paste it in the Widget URL box
Test the Wired Widget now.
Some widgets don’t have the Source link. And I haven’t got them to work yet.
The NetVibe widget framework looks really clean and stable. They have several cool concepts like Universes. I’ll see if these would run on the Kludget Engine.
June 29, 2009 - 2:14 pm
Hi,
i just tried your engine and find it great.
You say, that some netvibes widgets have no source and you couldn’t get them to run.
Since i liked the weather widget and it had no source i started toying around a little. I found out that you can make them work like this:
1. Add them to your netvibes page
2. Open the html source of that netvibes page
3. Copy the link to the modulelist (something like http://cdn.netvibes.com/js/c/ModuleList.js?v=)
4. Open that url in your browser and search for “.html”
You’ll find links to all modules on your page and can copy and paste them to the UWA Widget. I hope that helps
June 29, 2009 - 2:42 pm
@Quintuss
Hmm, nevermind.
It seems the list of Modules in there is just some default list and doesnt relate to what you have added to the page.
You can grab the URLs for their essential widgets there though.
July 1, 2009 - 7:30 am
netvibes provide a REST api to query widgets and their source. i’ll try to see what i can do.
July 21, 2009 - 11:47 pm
@Quintuss
u didnt understand the last sentence when u said You’ll find links to all modules on your page and can copy and paste them to the UWA Widget. I hope that helps. where to paste that exactly? or let me ask how to paste that in UWA widget?