got a skull counter working

https://hackaday.io/project/5614-skull-counter-using-api

look nice. good job!

@Alex Rich thanks to you and your project it was super easy to remake! Awesome stuff.

Great!  let me know if you improve anything, I might make a fancy skull counter that displays more about the project like #followers, etc.  Endless possibilities.

I'm still thinking about a project to get started with the esp8266 and something like a skull alert seems about right. So no webpage for now. Would be cool if they would extend the skull api to use it like the facebook like on other pages, like their blog.

Thanks for the reply to my question, that worked!  I was getting hung up on the OAuth / callback stuff because that was new to me, it wasn't initially clear that for public data I can skip those steps and just do a normal GET request using my API key.  The examples on the API site are great btw, thanks!  Will implement my little counter tonight.  It might be cool for you guys to eventually just post code snippets for brain-dead things like displaying your project's skull count on your external project website (next to a button that lets people skull the project).  For something like this that would ping the API every time a website is visited, you could recommend how to implement a simple cache that is only refreshed if a few minutes has passed.  Just some ideas floating through my head.