To obtain news data, it is necessary to add your WiFi and New York Times API key to the MatrixPortal S3.
Connect your MatrixPortal S3 board to your computer using a reliable data and power USB-C cable. Depending on your operating system, the board should appear as a thumb drive named CIRCUITPY in your File Explorer/Finder.
Create a file with the name settings.toml in the root directory of the CIRCUITPY drive.
Add the following below:
The file should contain the keys CIRCUITPY_WIFI_SSID, CIRCUITPY_WIFI_PASSWORD, CIRCUITPY_WEB_API_PASSWORD, and your New York Times API Key as "NYT_API_KEY".
Once these are defined, CircuitPython will automatically connect to the network and start the webserver used for the workflow.
The web server is on port 80 unless overridden by CIRCUITPY_WEB_API_PORT. It also enables MDNS.
Here is an example settings.toml:
# To auto-connect to WiFi CIRCUITPY_WIFI_SSID="YOUR-WIFI-NETWORK-NAME" CIRCUITPY_WIFI_PASSWORD="YOUR-WIFI-NETWORK-PASSWORD" # Your New York Time API Key NYT_API_KEY = "SUPER-LONG-API-KEY-STRING" # To enable modifying files from the web. Change this too! # Leave the User field blank in the browser. CIRCUITPY_WEB_API_PASSWORD="passw0rd" CIRCUITPY_WEB_API_PORT=80
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