Is it possible to pull data from sources such as twitter, instagram, RSS feeds, or polls like polleverywhere.com and feed that data into Unreal?
I am evaluating using Unreal for future projects and would need to be able to feed data in realtime from these sources and more.
For example, showing a twitter response to a question posed by another twitter user. This would then be shown on a display at an arena or stadium. I realize this is fairly open-ended, but I am still determining what/how Unreal can be incorporated into our work.
There’s not built in support for those things I don’t think. But given there’s a javascript plugin available, I doubt you’d have any issues getting data for it. But it’d take some development work to do that. Alternatively I’m sure you could incorporate a bunch of libraries to do the same thing (libcurl for instance).
Then just use twitters (for example) rest api to post/get the information you want. And this should be usable towards all services that has a api for it
Hey, I’m sorry to revive an old thread, I’m looking at doing something similar myself, and I was wondering if you had any success with this project and whether you would be able to have a quick chat about it? George
Hey CupMcCakers, I wasn’t able to make a lot of progress on this since being thrown onto another project but if I remember correctly the VaRest plugin was a good start. It has come a long way since I was using it and is available on the Unreal Marketplace (free). Good luck!
