XF 2.2 External JS Data Provider Like vBulletin?

[RobNH]

I've conducted some searches here, but really couldn't find anything. Does XenForo have an external JS Data Provider set up like vBulletin?

The reason I ask is I used to be able to embed the 10 most recent posts from a particular forum into a static HTML page on my site and I'm wondering if I can still do that now that I've converted over to Xenforo?

 

[RobNH]

Anyone?

 

[Mike]

I'm not 100% sure the form that what you're referring to took, but we don't expose any data in a JS (or JSONP) format. The closest would be the RSS feed, though you'd likely need a JS library to fetch/parse that.

 

[RobNH]

Thanks for responding Mike. The code that was used on my site to pull in the threads from the vbulletin forums is as follows:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/forums/external.php?type=js&forumids=250,215,36,214,273,221,269,230"></script>
<script language="" type="text/javascript">
<!--
for (x = 0; x < 12; x++)
{
if (typeof(threads[x]) != "undefined")
{
document.writeln("<li style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\"><a href=\"/forums/showthread.php?t="+threads[x].threadid+"\">"+threads[x].title+"</a> Posted By: "+threads[x].poster+"</li>");
}
}
//-->
</script>

 

[Mike]

XF doesn't expose any data like that.

 

[imno007]

I might be missing something here, but why not just create a page and throw a new posts widget on there with a display condition?

$xf.reply.containerKey == 'node-xxx'

EDIT: Actually, you wouldn't even need the conditional - was thinking of something else there.

 

[RobNH]

It's a static html page that I'm trying to import the forum threads into

 

[Chromaniac]

RSS feed renderer seems to be the simplest way out...

 

[Paul B]

Is it an XF page node, or external to the forum?

If the former, use a widget, if the latter, RSS.

 

[RobNH]

It's an external HTML page.