Geckoboard

Display an uploaded image, with instructions on how to host images in Dropbox and Google Drive.

Add images using the image widget

Quickly unpack metrics on your dashboard, without having to dive into other tools.

Use Interactive View to investigate the data behind your widgets

Text widgets are flexible enough to accept HTML tags, including clickable links and font size adjustments.

Use the Text widget to display text on your dashboard

Learn how pairing our Image widget with tools like PagePixels can schedule screenshots of your ratings.

Display customer satisfaction scores using Image widgets

Learn how the File Roulette app uses Dropbox to display a new image on an image widget after every refresh.

Display image roulette on your dashboard using Dropbox

Steps to build a QR Code widget that generates a QR code from a URL.

Display a QR code on your dashboard using Dropbox

Clock widget displays the time and date in either 24 or 12 hour format, using your local computer's clock as a reference.

Display the time and date on a dashboard using the Clock widget

Learn the key concepts of how to structure your data and push it to Geckoboard using CSV widgets.

Build a dashboard using data from a CSV file

Steps to create a Google Alert and display updates on a RSS/Atom Feed widget.

Display Google Alerts on a RSS/Atom Feed widget

Our RSS/Atom Feed widget displays items from an RSS or Atom feed as a list.

Add an RSS/Atom Feed widget to your dashboard

Dashboard tools

How to display generated graphics and graphics that display instantly on your Geckoboard dashboard using Bannerbear.

Display generated graphics on your dashboard using Bannerbear

How to schedule regular screenshots of your chosen URL to be displayed on your dashboard using Bannerbear's API or Zapier.

Display regular web page screen grabs on your dashboard using Bannerbear

Bannerbear and Geckoboard

How to get data from an external API into Geckoboard.

Guide to using Custom Widgets

Steps to use a Google Sheets script that pulls data from a sheet, before pushing the data to a Custom Widget.

Push to Custom Widgets from a Google Sheet

Steps to build a custom pie chart and geo mapping widget.

Guide to using Custom Widgets with Excel

Learn how to use Node.js to get data from a datasource into your Custom Widgets.

Guide to Custom Widgets using Node.js

Upload your JSON file to Dropbox to use the created link with your Custom Widget.

Use a Dropbox URL as a data source for Custom Widgets

Learn about Gekoq, a Node.js module that simplifies sending data to your Geckoboard Push method Custom Widgets.

Node.js module for Push method widgets

Learn about Gekkota and how it can help build a custom integration for Geckoboard's custom Push method widgets.

Template for building custom integrations in Node.js

Learn why you might see this error message when pushing data onto Geckoboard.

Custom Widgets error: 'widget does not exist'

Steps to take if your Custom Widget times out.

Custom Widget polling timeout error

Learn why you may be seeing this error message when using Highcharts.

Highcharts error: 'Chart data could not be parsed'

Display weekly NPS, a feed of recent comments, and customize views to focus on different NPS score values.

Bannerbear and Geckoboard

Custom widgets