How To Create Your Own iGoogle Gadget
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For those of you living under a rock, with your laptop reading this blog, who have not heard of iGoogle, its basically a custom Google homepage with various “gadgets” that you can add using AJAX technology. The gadgets boil down to clocks, the whether, news, games, RSS feeds and much more. Google lets anybody develop gadgets for iGoogle and submit them to there list of gadgets for the world to access. I will provide you with the simple steps, and code, to create your own RSS iGoogle gadget that you can submit to Google.
Step 1: Download the code for the Johnny Blogger Gadget from HERE.
Step 2: Edit the saved xml file in any text editor and simply change the RSS URL on this line: _IG_FetchFeedAsJSON(“http://YourRSSURL)”, to your websites RSS URL
*Note: Once you change the RSS URL to your blog / website RSS URL the Title and Site Description will automatically be updated
Step 3: Edit the ModulePrefs section with your information and the CSS section of the xml file, everything between the “style” tags, to make the iGadget your own.
To submit your gadget to Google click HERE.
July 9, 2007 at 5:09 am
Thanks alot. Sadly it doesn’t work though. I went to the google developers page for gadgets adn tested your sthat i downloaded and still nothing..
Modified one for my own site. Still didn’t work
July 9, 2007 at 5:26 am
Added yours from the google directory and it worked though.. Submitted mine. hopefully they approve it soon so i can see if it works.
Whats the turn around time on that generally like?
July 9, 2007 at 8:37 am
Hi
I’v tried too… it doesn’t work…
July 9, 2007 at 9:16 am
the odd thing is it claerly should work. cuase i added his johnny blogger gadget from the google dir and it works fine. Thingis i wanted to get a screenshot before i submited it..
July 9, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Try submitting yours to Google, like as you said, it should work. This is the code I used to submit mine to Google. Some issues I was having while using the Google parser was my Gadget would not display properly in the Parser Preview window in Internet Explorer, but it would display correctly when I loaded the Parser under Firefox, give that try. Best of luck.
July 10, 2007 at 3:54 am
thanks. already submited. Hope google approves it soon Still hasn’t turned up as yet.
July 10, 2007 at 4:36 am
Got it working. Thanks alot man.
August 20, 2007 at 5:42 pm
[...] and code, to create your own RSS iGoogle gadget that you can submit to Google. View the tutorial HERE. [...]
March 20, 2008 at 2:59 am
Thanks for the great blog! I’m working on building a Gadget right now! I have a few questions if you can answer them.
How many users will a Gadget get from submitting it to the directory? Should user’s have to advertise their Gadget? Can publishers put ads on their Gadget?
March 20, 2008 at 3:22 am
There was a little bug, but it works after this is fixed:
_IG_FetchFeedAsJSON(“http://www.johnnyblogger.net/feed/”,
There is an extra ) in the original. Replace the line above with this and it should work perfect for me!
Thanks for this very useful script JohnnyBlogger!
May 24, 2008 at 2:55 am
it doesn’t work
February 19, 2009 at 10:50 am
Thaks you very much, Adam Cox!!
April 10, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Hey, appreciate the information. I tried to add it to the blog. Having a few issues but I’ll get there. Great site!
Thanks, Jack H
October 7, 2009 at 9:34 am
Hi. Great post. But it doesn’t work anymore. It seems as igoogle requires some parameters. Johnny – is there anyway you can update the post with the new code. That would be greatly appreciated!!!!!
Thanks a million.