Bring readers to your live feeds with a front page widget!
A front-page widget showcasing live blog content is a great way to engage readers and direct them to your live coverage. By embedding the latest posts from your Live Center blogs onto your newspaper’s front page, you can highlight breaking news, ongoing events, or real-time updates—encouraging more readers to click through and follow the story as it unfolds.
This guide will walk you through how to:
- Retrieve the latest active channels from your Live Center tenant
- Fetch the most recent posts from a selected live blog
- Optimize performance by dynamically loading additional posts
Using Live Center’s API, you can easily pull in content from one or multiple live blogs and display it in a widget on your front page. This ensures that the most recent and relevant updates are always visible to your audience, keeping them engaged and increasing traffic to your live blogs.
Let’s get started!
Get latest channels:
https://livecenter.norkon.net/Api/v1/TENANTKEY/LatestChannels/API-KEY
This API allows you to retrieve the all latest channels used. This allows you to find what channels are active and has recently been used within the account/tenant.
This API requires an API key, this can be found under Integrations in LC:
Generate a random key by clicking add or type in your desired key before clicking add.
Get Posts on channel:
https://livecentercdn.norkon.net/BulletinFeed/TENANTKEY/CHANNELID/initial/
With the API above you can then get the 10 latest posts within the chosen channel.
You can also combine the call with the following to load more posts. This is good in terms of performance:
BulletinFeed/{tenantKey}/{channelId:int}/Earlier/{cutoffId:int}
What you need for each:
- Tenant Key
- ChannelID: Can be found in the URL of the channel and in the oEmbed URL. Also in the API’s directly.