Get Current Output Slide Text Via API

[Fingie]

Hey hey, coding a custom worship slide display solution for my church org. All I need is to grab the current output slide's text information. Really simple, but I'm struggling to find a good way to do it. I tried the obvious queries like get_slide and get_output, but couldn't come get out the info I need. get_slide only seems to show the first slide at index 0 and passing in {"showId": "active"} didn't seem to change anything. get_output does show you the current outputed slide, but doesn't give me the text of that slide. Tried inputting the "id" value from get_output into the "slideId" argument of the get_slide to no avail. kinda stumped at this point

Only solution I can imagine is using the get_plain_text, and parsing that text into an array of slide texts which I then can use the index from get_output to match, but that's too scuffed a solution to trust for live application, especially one that is audience-facing.

Anyone more knowledgeable be able to point me in the right direction?

P.S. Please add a template to the API page showing people how to input data correctly as well as what ? | and other arbitrary symbols mean in the docs. It was a pain to finally figure out the correct syntax by trial and error {"action": "get_slide", "slideId": "259db9a2877"} thanks!!

[vassbo]

Why not use the stage display?
It's possible, but I might add a new API call for that.

[Fingie]

Im dealing with a bit of a wacky use case. I'm trying to create a site that the audience can scan a qr code to visit which shows the current lyrics like you would have on the LED wall or projectors. Kinda similar to old hymnals but on the phone and synced live. I could just stream a video output, like you suggested, but that's a whole lot more bandwidth than is really necessary. In a perfect world I would just be able to send an update message to the front-end site whenever someone changes slides in freeshow. Then I'm also free to style the site any way I want with html, css instead of being stuck with a set output resolution that won't scale as well to different devices.

[vassbo]

All right, I added a get_output_slide_text action comming in the next version.

If your audience is connected to the same network as the computer running FreeShow though, the "Stage" display should do everything you described:
It will send only the text and not a video output (if the "Slide text" is used), it will auto scale to fit the device, you can style it with CSS differently to the main output text, etc. It should also update automatically with any changes.