Robert Jacobsen

Editing the Twitter Opera Widget to yield more frequent updates.

Thursday, 14. May 2009, 19:15:29

EDIT: Seems 1 update/minute is too hard for the 100 server updates / hour, so I've started using updates every 2 minutes instead!

EDIT 2: The author of Twitter Opera Widget says that it will be added in the next update: Linkage

For some reason, the Twitter Opera Widget has 5 minutes updates as the lowest possible update frequency, however, I think it worked when I updated the widget's index.html file which contained the options menu.

Close the Twitter Opera Widget.
Navigate to where your Opera installation saves your settings. On Windows Vista it was C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera\widgets for me, but it differs from different operating systems and versions of these.
Here, find the Twitter Opera Widget file, mine was named Twitter Opera Widget_7206_3.21.wgt, and open it in your favourite archive extractor. I used WinRAR. Extract all of its contents.

Open the index.html file for editing, and locate where it reads

<select id="update-interval">
<option value="0" data-locale="manual">Manual</option

After this, add the following lines:

<option value="1">1 <span data-locale="minutes">minute</span></option>
<option value="2">2 <span data-locale="minutes">minutes</span></option>

Save the index.html file and close it.
Using your favourite archive extractor, repack all the extracted files into a Zip archive bearing the same name as the widget.
Rename the original widget file to something else and rename the Zip archive to what the widget file originally was named, in my case Twitter Opera Widget_7206_3.21.wgt.
Relaunch the Widget from Opera, go to settings and choose the new 1 minute setting.

Please comment if it works or not. It seems to be working here.

A bit absent nowadaysDamn you coxy

Comments

Karen # 14. May 2009, 19:17

You pwn. Seriously.

Robert Jacobsen # 14. May 2009, 19:49

Seems 1 update/minute is too hard for the 100 server updates / hour, so I've added the following line after the 1 minute line:

<option value="2">2 <span data-locale="minutes">minutes</span></option>

Hopefully, it'll work as well, but with half the traffic to the server

Andrew Nguyen # 15. May 2009, 00:44

Thank you.

David Håsäther # 15. May 2009, 08:39

Lots of people have requested this. I'll fix it in the next version: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/7206/#comment171702

Robert Jacobsen # 15. May 2009, 11:19

That's awesome!

Charles Schloss # 15. May 2009, 14:13

Karen # 30. May 2009, 11:18

I WAS subscribed to your blog, but it appears as though my subscription got dropped.

That happens to me ALL THE TIME. Is there anyone I should report that to? Other friends of mine have had the same problem.

We will think that our friends are simply not posting...come to find out they've made 203489 blog entries that we didn't get alerts for.

Yours was one on the chopping block for me.

Anyway, once again - you pwn! Honestly, I haven't tweaked mine yet, but it's on my ginormous To Do list!

Robert Jacobsen # 30. May 2009, 17:29

I'll report this issue when I get back to work!

Charles Schloss # 30. May 2009, 17:46

amnith I also have the subscribtion breaking, I have a temp work around by using RSS feeds

Karen # 30. May 2009, 18:30

Wow, thanks! I really appreciate it. I haven't reported it because I HATE to complain.

Robert Jacobsen # 30. May 2009, 19:06

Could you please mail this to me at robertj@opera.com and I'll look into it on Friday when I work (and I'm done with my exams). If possible, provide additional information about the broken subscription (who it breaks for, etc).

Karen # 30. May 2009, 19:07

No problem.

Thanks for looking into it!

UPDATE: Just sent the email.

David Håsäther # 5. June 2009, 10:58

Sorry for the delay. There's a new version of the widget out – you can now use any update frequency (in minutes).

Charles Schloss # 5. June 2009, 14:38

Sweet thanks