On This Day in History plugin for TRMNL
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This plugin displays the latest entries from the onthisday.com Web page. The Python code contained here needs to scrape the page and is used to generate plugin data.
- Start at usetrmnl.com/plugins
- Find "Private Plugin" and click.
- Click on "Add New".
- Give it a name, select the refresh rate (once a day is sufficient) and select "Webhook" for the strategy. Click "Save" at the top right.
- Note the Plugin UUID.
- Download the
onthisdayinhistory.pycode from this repo and change the line belo 53AB w to have the plugin UUID noted above.
PLUGIN_UUID = "<YOUR PLUGIN UUID>"
- Copy HTML from the ".html" files in this repo and paste the contents in for the four views.
- Run
onthisdayinhistory.pyand it should push data to the TRML plugin. Force a refresh to see if the data populates.
Set up the onthisdayinhistory.py Python program to run once a day to push new data to TRMNL.