Geckoboard Widget Editor

Online Development Environment for creating Geckoboard widgets

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  • Quickly integrate your service with Geckoboard.
  • Works with your current API – No API changes required.
  • Simplifies data calls, just focus on visualising your data.
  • Nothing to download or install. Just login and get coding.
  • Create, manage and test all of your widgets in one place.
  • You only need knowledge of JavaScript and your API.
We’ll be adding people to the system over the coming weeks. Fill in our vendor and developer interest forms and we’ll be in touch!  

Simple Widget Editor

Write the code for the widget and configuration menus in the tabbed editor panel, which features line numbering, code folding, syntax highlighting and checking and JSON validation.

Quick Previews

See your widget whilst you’re building it. Quickly preview your changes and test the widget whilst you code.

Debugging Console

Get immediate feedback and see what your widget sees. Easily spot and resolve bugs with the console.
 
Create multiple business dashboards

Fully-functional Test Dashboard

Test your widgets on your own private testing dashboard, choose to share the board with others to get feedback.

Wide range of authentication and data types supported

We support basic, OAuth, OAuth 2, url parameter passing and signed url authentication types. Input data can be in XML, JSON or CSV formats and it’s easily manipulated with JavaScript.

Add services and manage accounts

Create services that authenticate with your API and add test accounts. Quickly switch between them to test different data sets.
 

You’ll be in good company – here’s some of those developing already

Current widget editor developers

Take a look at widgets that have been created using our Widget Editor