Fetch Plugin Content
Retrieve parsed plugin JSON data for your own templates.
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Retrieve parsed plugin JSON data for your own templates.
Last updated
No matter how many customizations we add to native plugins, there will always be a good reason to change them. Instead of cluttering our interface and adding complexity for other users, TRMNL offers a "data only" mode for select native plugins.
First, set up + hide an instance of the plugin you want to re-build yourself with raw data. This instructs TRMNL to sync and parse data on your behalf.
Connect the Weather, Stock Prices, or any Calendar plugin (more coming soon)
Make note of the PluginSetting integer ID in the URL (/plugin_settings/<id-here>)
Navigate to Playlists and "hide" the automatically added item by clicking the eyeball icon
Next, build a Private Plugin.
Navigate to Plugins > Private Plugin, select "Polling" as the Strategy
Input https://usetrmnl.com/api/plugin_settings/<id-here>/data as the Polling URL
Input authorization=bearer <your-user-api-key> as the Polling Header*
*Find or generate a on your Account tab
Click save, then enter the Markup Editor.
Parsed data will appear inside a data node of the "Merge Variables" dropdown. You may need to click "Force Refresh" from the private plugin settings view to ensure the data has been fetched.
If you only want to make small changes to the TRMNL native design, you can steal that markup here:
Just click the plugin you're rebuilding, and all layouts will appear with sample data embedded. If you've connected a plugin natively, your latest cached JSON will be embedded instead of demo data.
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