Recent Loans at Kiva.org signature image…

An article by aswin    3 Comments

Don’t blame me, blame the “Aries” in me for not being able to sit quiet. I was traveling in the train a couple of days ago and realized my I needed a break from the code I’ve been writing since a week because I was getting addicted to that code.

So, I started writing this new script that automatically generates an image with the latest loans at http://kiva.org using Kiva’s public API. This image can be attached in email signatures and the image is updated every time you make new loans and therefore, if you saw this image after making a loan, the new loan would appear here.

Example:

You could get your version of this image too. Just replace “{LENDER-ID}” with your lender ID and “{MESSAGE}” with the message you would like to add to the signature ( my above image has “I share at kiva.org” ).

Copy the code from the below textbox:

<br /> <a href="http://kiva.org"><img src="http://aswinteja.com/kvsig.php?lender={LENDER-ID}&message={MESSAGE}" alt="" /><br /> </a><br />

Ping me at aswin at aswinteja d0t com for more questions or suggestions.

Also, new loans can take up to an hour to update. This is because I am storing the image in the memcache once generated to make it faster and to avoid toomany pings to the Kiva API. The TTL ( Time to Live ) of this is 1 hour.

Cheers,

Aswin.

Disclaimer: All copyrights of all images in the generated image are held by kiva.org and I only pull them from the public API. Any violation of any TOS or anything else is entirely on me. But, all goodness is Kiva’s.