1  # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Limor Fried for Adafruit Industries
 2  #
 3  # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 4  
 5  """
 6  This example will access the reddit API, grab a number like subreddit followers
 7  and display it on a screen
 8  If you can find something that spits out JSON data, we can display it!
 9  """
10  import time
11  import board
12  from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal
13  
14  SUBREDDIT = "circuitpython"
15  
16  # Set up where we'll be fetching data from
17  DATA_SOURCE = "https://www.reddit.com/r/"+SUBREDDIT+"/about.json"
18  DATA_LOCATION = ["data", "subscribers"]
19  CAPTION="reddit.com/r/"+SUBREDDIT
20  
21  # the current working directory (where this file is)
22  cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0]
23  pyportal = PyPortal(url=DATA_SOURCE, json_path=DATA_LOCATION,
24                      status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL,
25                      default_bg=cwd+"/reddit_background.bmp",
26                      text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Collegiate-50.bdf",
27                      text_position=(210, 80),
28                      text_color=0xFFFFFF,
29                      caption_text=CAPTION,
30                      caption_font=cwd+"/fonts/Collegiate-24.bdf",
31                      caption_position=(40, 200),
32                      caption_color=0xFFFFFF)
33  
34  # track the last value so we can play a sound when it updates
35  last_value = 0
36  
37  while True:
38      try:
39          value = pyportal.fetch()
40          print("Response is", value)
41          if last_value < value:  # ooh it went up!
42              print("New subscriber!")
43              pyportal.play_file(cwd+"/coin.wav")
44          last_value = value
45      except (ValueError, RuntimeError, ConnectionError, OSError) as e:
46          print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
47  
48      time.sleep(60)