[solved ]How to add data to a screen from an internet source

[Imperf3kt]

I asked something similar to this years ago, but cannot find that post and cannot remember how to do this, but I want to be able to add text and images (potentially embedded videos) to a screen, based on the contents of a text file or other which is stored on a web server.

My ultimate goal is to have a screen with information about a specific thing, which sometimes changes and I want to edit that without having to build a new distribution of the game.

I'd also like to be able to embed some YouTube videos (or any other service, maybe even have to host them myself) as my game includes a ton of videos and I'm trying to minimise the size of the game for mobile users

Can anybody point me to an example of how to do this? Which renpy functions will allow it?

[PyTom]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/news-from-your-15636026

Has an articule I wrote up on how to do that. It should mostly be the same now, except that requests is built into Ren'Py by default.

You won't be able to embed videos from youtube, Ren'Py isn't a web browser. You can use OpenURL to link people to a youtube page.

[Imperf3kt]

Thanks PyTom, exactly what I needed.

A link to videos will probably suffice for a lite version. The intention was to add tutorials, which may need to be changed over time, so this will also work.

[Imperf3kt]

I'm struggling to work out how to use this outside the news screen. Every other screen I try to use it on says missing required positional arguments 'news'

[Ocelot]

Some code will be nice. By default news screen is invoked by ShowNews action which does nessesary things, like passing actual news object to the screen. Does your screen has news parameter? Do you provide it when showing screen? Do you access news in some other way?

[Imperf3kt]

I didn't add any code because there was none to add.
I am using the default news screen, that works, but I don't want the news screen, I just want the data to appear in another screen.

However, I think you just solved my issue, I wasn't calling my screens using ShowNews action. I was focusing too much on the contents of the screen, rather than the method the screen is shown by.

I'll have to check later, but I think that sounds like what I was missing.