Displaying new CD topics/posts in the workshop

Technical
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We have a big screen in the workshop that isn’t really used at the moment, and I thought it’d be cool to display new CD topics/relevant posts that come every minute or so.
Has anyone done this and willing to share a good method? How should I go on about this?
Thanks!

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Open CD on the screen, set it to autorefresh on a set interval?

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The “Unofficial FIRST Robotics Competition Server” on Discord does something like this with a bot called “Dozer” in their #newsfeed channel. Not sure if we can post discord links on CD, but if you’re not on it, you could find it pretty easily via Google.

I’m not code-oriented but I’m sure that bot is just an implementation of some CD/Discourse feature (like RSS idk) which you may prefer.

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I’m more interested in the contents, and possibly scrolling a bit in each topic until a new one comes up

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Do you know if there’s some specific API call or something similar for this?

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You can use the RSS feed and use an off-the-shelf solution (or build your own) to pull recent posts:

Alternatively:

Don’t.

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I don’t really know much about this sort of stuff. But:

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