This is a dumbly-named repo containing the scripts that power my live-updating website, viewable here.
The website is built with Flask. It is made up of a core template (see
/templates/index.html), which is rendered when the path / is requested.
There is a directory /raw; everything in here is served as-is from the path
/raw/<filename>. In here are some useful files (CV, etc), along with the
favicon, and cards.js, which is referred to from the core template. This JS
makes a request every 30 seconds to /cards.
If you view the live website, you will see that there are a number of sections
("cards") with live-updating data. Eg. the last-played song on Last.fm, my most
recent tweet, etc. All of this live data is what is returned from the /cards
endpoint, as JSON.
Cards are listed in the cards directory. Each contains some script file, which
is added to the crontab on the machine the website is running on. Each script
file simply, when triggered, does some lookup, and outputs a data.json file
in the same directory as the script. The server then collates all of these
data.json files and returns them when the /cards path is queried.
From this combination of cronjobs and python scripts, live(-ish) data is served.