clearspring - the widget network.

See the configuration overview for information on the overall widget configuration mechanism.

When your web page or image widget is loaded by the Clearspring platform, it will receive any configured widget parameters as URL parameters.  That is, arguments are attached to your primary source URL using standard URL-encoding.   

For example, if you tell Clearspring (in the Widget Console) that your HTML widget is hosted at:

http://yourwebsite.com/widgets/widget.html

and you have configured a parameter param1 (in the Edit Parameters tool), your widget will be rendered from a URL such as:

http://yourwebsite.com/widgets/widget.html?param1=val1

We've already discussed the benefits of having this configuration managed centrally by our servers, but from within your actual widget you don't likely care -- you can simply access these parameters by parsing the incoming URL arguments as you normally would.

Note: Any URL parameters that are already included in the source URL you specify for your widget will be parsed and registered as Parameters within the platform.

Overriding Parameters