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= How to set a 'live' collective webpage =
= How to set a 'live' collective webpage =


== What do you need? ==
== What do you need? ==
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== How does it work? ==  
== How does it work? ==  
 
Looping wget is possible to download every x sexonds the text from a pad into a html file.<br>
 
The html file can be accessed online through the server.
 


== What - Where==
== What - Where==

Revision as of 19:03, 23 January 2019

How to set a 'live' collective webpage

What do you need?

  • web server (Rapberry pi + apache2)
  • etherpad
  • Wget

How does it work?

Looping wget is possible to download every x sexonds the text from a pad into a html file.
The html file can be accessed online through the server.

What - Where

/var/www/html/liveHTML

  • README.txt
  • live.sh

How

live.sh

#!/bin/bash

while true                                                       # run a loop
do
wget -O live.tmp https://pad.xpub.nl/p/test/export/txt           # download the txt of a pad's link into a file.tmp
mv live.tmp live.html                                            # rename .tmp into .html
sleep 5                                                          # 5 seconds delay
done                                                             # restart the loop