Universal Widget API

The UWA documentation explains the structure of the widget and how to use JavaScript/Ajax & JSON. The documentation is also available in a single page for a quick overview.

The UWA CSS templates and JavaScript controls help you build good-looking widgets faster.

Make your UWA widgets social with OpenSocial.

Platform implementors: discover the UWA specification on netvibes.org!

Read the Hello World sample for a first look at a basic UWA widget.

The UWA skeleton gives you a quick copy/paste way to build a first widget.

The HOWTOs: Learn all the details about displaying UWA on your site using an IFrame, embedding Flash content, handling JS events, calling the internal audio player, parsing RSS, opening a new browser window and many more…

The FAQ features more answers.

Sample widgets: Learn by looking at how we built some popular widgets, like RSS Reader, Digg, Alexa…