Hello all ... To introduce myself, i'm new in the group (and first google group i joined too!). My name is Emiliano (aka x-ip), i'm from Argentina, i'm a python jr programmer (i sould say 'semi-jr programmer x'D) and i'm working with Plone and Zope. I'm here to ask some question that i couldn't respond myself in my research. First i'll try to explain the idea: The idea (almost, in first instance, maybe then ideas will be added ;) is to make a product (in plone, products are like 'Add-ons' to the site) in which the end user can select a Google Gadget and add it as a portlet (portlets are 'boxes' that appear in left and right columns for example) to his / her site. To commit that objective, the fist step was to put the google gadget in the site. To do that, i made a plone 3 portlet in which you can input any string (it should be the url that google gives to add the google gadget) as you can see in the next shot: http://dev.rcom.com.ar/x-ip/portlet_conf.jpg Once saved, a plone template calls a function that returns this url and put it in the html. The results in the next shot :D! http://dev.rcom.com.ar/x-ip/gadget_showed.jpg

Now, the idea is to make it more automated or transparent to the person who wants to add the google gadget. Insted of going to the google gadget directory and get the url from the gadget and put it in the portlet, make the process more transparent.

So, my questions are:

There is a way to retrieve the google gadget available at the google gadget directory and the urls from each one of them ? Surely thery are a lot of to put them in a <select> ... maybe there is an api so i can take the first 5 from the 'hottest' gadgets ?