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Configuration

Intro
Preconfigured page
Server
Theme
- Themes
Pages & Columns
Widgets
- RSS
- Videos
- Hacker News
- Reddit
- Weather
- Monitor
- Releases
- Bookmarks
- Calendar
- Stocks
- Twitch Channels
- Twitch Top Games
- iframe

Intro

Configuration is done via a single YAML file and a server restart is required in order for any changes to take effect. Trying to start the server with an invalid config file will result in an error.

Preconfigured page

If you don't want to spend time reading through all the available configuration options and just want something to get you going quickly you can use the following glance.yml and make changes as you see fit:

pages:
  - name: Home
    columns:
      - size: small
        widgets:
          - type: calendar

          - type: rss
            limit: 10
            collapse-after: 3
            cache: 3h
            feeds:
              - url: https://ciechanow.ski/atom.xml
              - url: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/rss.xml
                title: Josh Comeau
              - url: https://samwho.dev/rss.xml
              - url: https://awesomekling.github.io/feed.xml
              - url: https://ishadeed.com/feed.xml
                title: Ahmad Shadeed

          - type: twitch-channels
            channels:
              - theprimeagen
              - cohhcarnage
              - christitustech
              - blurbs
              - asmongold
              - jembawls

      - size: full
        widgets:
          - type: hacker-news

          - type: videos
            channels:
              - UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg # Jeff Geerling
              - UCv6J_jJa8GJqFwQNgNrMuww # ServeTheHome
              - UCOk-gHyjcWZNj3Br4oxwh0A # Techno Tim

          - type: reddit
            subreddit: selfhosted

      - size: small
        widgets:
          - type: weather
            location: London, United Kingdom

          - type: stocks
            stocks:
              - symbol: SPY
                name: S&P 500
              - symbol: BTC-USD
                name: Bitcoin
              - symbol: NVDA
                name: NVIDIA
              - symbol: AAPL
                name: Apple
              - symbol: MSFT
                name: Microsoft
              - symbol: GOOGL
                name: Google
              - symbol: AMD
                name: AMD
              - symbol: RDDT
                name: Reddit

This will give you a page that looks like the following:

Configure the widgets, add more of them, add extra pages, etc. Make it your own!

Server

Server configuration is done through a top level server property. Example:

server:
  port: 8080
  assets-path: /home/user/glance-assets

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
host	string	no
port	number	no	8080
assets-path	string	no

`host`

The address which the server will listen on. Setting it to localhost means that only the machine that the server is running on will be able to access the dashboard. By default it will listen on all interfaces.

`port`

A number between 1 and 65,535, so long as that port isn't already used by anything else.

`assets-path`

The path to a directory that will be served by the server under the /assets/ path. This is handy for widgets like the Monitor where you have to specify an icon URL and you want to self host all the icons rather than pointing to an external source.

Important

When installing through docker the path will point to the files inside the container. Don't forget to mount your assets path to the same path inside the container. Example:

If your assets are in:
/home/user/glance-assets
You should mount:
/home/user/glance-assets:/app/assets
And your config should contain:
assets-path: /app/assets

Examples

Say you have a directory glance-assets with a file gitea-icon.png in it and you specify your assets path like:

assets-path: /home/user/glance-assets

To be able to point to an asset from your assets path, use the the /assets/ path like such:

icon: /assets/gitea-icon.png

Theme

Theming is done through a top level theme property. Values for the colors are in HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) format. You can use a color picker like this one to convert colors from other formats to HSL. The values are separated by a space and % is not required for any of the numbers.

Example:

theme:
  background-color: 100 20 10
  primary-color: 40 90 40
  contrast-multiplier: 1.1

Themes

If you don't want to spend time configuring your own theme, there are several available themes which you can simply copy the values for.

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
light	boolean	no	false
background-color	HSL	no	240 8 9
primary-color	HSL	no	43 50 70
positive-color	HSL	no	same as `primary-color`
negative-color	HSL	no	0 70 70
contrast-multiplier	number	no	1
text-saturation-multiplier	number	no	1
custom-css-file	string	no

`light`

Whether the scheme is light or dark. This does not change the background color, it inverts the text colors so that they look appropriately on a light background.

`background-color`

Color of the page and widgets.

`primary-color`

Color used across the page, largely to indicate unvisited links.

`positive-color`

Used to indicate that something is positive, such as stock price being up, twitch channel being live or a monitored site being online. If not set, the value of primary-color will be used.

`negative-color`

Oppposite of positive-color.

`contrast-multiplier`

Used to increase or decrease the contrast (in other words visibility) of the text. A value of 1.3 means that the text will be 30% lighter/darker depending on the scheme. Use this if you think that some of the text on the page is too dark and hard to read. Example:

`text-saturation-multiplier`

Used to increase or decrease the saturation of text, useful when using a custom background color with a high amount of saturation and needing the text to have a more neutral color. 0.5 means that the saturation will be 50% lower and 1.5 means that it'll be 50% higher.

`custom-css-file`

Path to a custom CSS file, either external or one from within the server configured assets path. Example:

theme:
  custom-css-file: /assets/my-style.css

Tip

Because Glance uses a lot of utility classes it might be difficult to target some elements. To make it easier to style specific widgets, each widget has a widget-type-{name} class, so for example if you wanted to make the links inside just the RSS widget bigger you could use the following selector:
.widget-type-rss a {
    font-size: 1.5rem;
}

Pages & Columns

Using pages and columns is how widgets are organized. Each page contains up to 3 columns and each column can have any number of widgets.

Pages

Pages are defined through a top level pages property. The page defined first becomes the home page and all pages get automatically added to the navigation bar in the order that they were defined. Example:

pages:
  - name: Home
    columns: ...

  - name: Videos
    columns: ...

  - name: Homelab
    columns: ...

Properties

Name	Type	Required
title	string	yes
slug	string	no
columns	array	yes

`title`

The name of the page which gets shown in the navigation bar.

`slug`

The URL friendly version of the title which is used to access the page. For example if the title of the page is "RSS Feeds" you can make the page accessible via localhost:8080/feeds by setting the slug to feeds. If not defined, it will automatically be generated from the title.

Columns

Columns are defined for each page using a columns property. There are two types of columns - full and small, which refers to their width. A small column takes up a fixed amount of width (300px) and a full column takes up the all of the remaining width. You can have up to 3 columns per page and you must have either 1 or 2 full columns. Example:

pages:
  - name: Home
    columns:
      - size: small
        widgets: ...
      - size: full
        widgets: ...
      - size: small
        widgets: ...

Properties

Name	Type	Required
size	string	yes
widgets	array	no

Here are some of the possible column configurations:

columns:
  - size: small
    widgets: ...
  - size: full
    widgets: ...
  - size: small
    widgets: ...

columns:
  - size: full
    widgets: ...
  - size: small
    widgets: ...

columns:
  - size: full
    widgets: ...
  - size: full
    widgets: ...

Widgets

Widgets are defined for each column using a widgets property. Example:

pages:
  - name: Home
    columns:
      - size: small
        widgets:
          - type: weather
            location: London, United Kingdom

Note

Currently not all widgets are designed to fit every column size, however some widgets offer different "styles" that help alleviate this limitation.

Shared Properties

Name	Type	Required
type	string	yes
title	string	no
cache	string	no

`type`

Used to specify the widget.

`title`

The title of the widget. If left blank it will be defined by the widget.

`cache`

How long to keep the fetched data in memory. The value is a string and must be a number followed by one of s, m, h, d. Examples:

cache: 30s # 30 seconds
cache: 5m  # 5 minutes
cache: 2h  # 2 hours
cache: 1d  # 1 day

Note

Not all widgets can have their cache duration modified. The calendar and weather widgets update on the hour and this cannot be changed.

RSS

Display a list of articles from multiple RSS feeds.

Example:

- type: rss
  title: News
  style: horizontal-cards
  feeds:
    - url: https://feeds.bloomberg.com/markets/news.rss
      title: Bloomberg
    - url: https://moxie.foxbusiness.com/google-publisher/markets.xml
      title: Fox Business
    - url: https://moxie.foxbusiness.com/google-publisher/technology.xml
      title: Fox Business

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
style	string	no	vertical-list
feeds	array	yes
limit	integer	no	25
collapse-after	integer	no	5

`style`

Used to change the appearance of the widget. Possible values are vertical-list and horizontal-cards where the former is intended to be used within a small column and the latter a full column. Below are previews of each style.

vertical-list

horizontal-cards

`feeds`

An array of RSS/atom feeds. The title can optionally be changed.

Properties for each feed

Name	Type	Required	Default
url	string	yes
title	string	no	the title provided by the feed

`limit`

The maximum number of articles to show.

`collapse-after`

How many articles are visible before the "SHOW MORE" button appears. Set to -1 to never collapse.

Videos

Display a list of the latest videos from specific YouTube channels.

Example:

- type: videos
  channels:
    - UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw
    - UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ
    - UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA

Preview:

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
channels	array	yes
limit	integer	no	25
video-url-template	string	no	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={VIDEO-ID}

`channels`

A list of channel IDs. One way of getting the ID of a channel is going to the channel's page and clicking on its description:

Then scroll down and click on "Share channel", then "Copy channel ID":

`limit`

The maximum number of videos to show.

`video-url-template`

Used to replace the default link for videos. Useful when you're running your own YouTube front-end. Example:

video-url-template: https://invidious.your-domain.com/watch?v={VIDEO-ID}

Placeholders:

{VIDEO-ID} - the ID of the video

Hacker News

Display a list of posts from Hacker News.

Example:

- type: hacker-news
  limit: 15
  collapse-after: 5

Preview:

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
limit	integer	no	15
collapse-after	integer	no	5
comments-url-template	string	no	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={POST-ID}

`comments-url-template`

Used to replace the default link for post comments. Useful if you want to use an alternative front-end. Example:

comments-url-template: https://www.hckrnws.com/stories/{POST-ID}

Placeholders:

{POST-ID} - the ID of the post

Display a list of posts from a specific subreddit.

Warning

Reddit does not allow unauthorized API access from VPS IPs, if you're hosting Glance on a VPS you will get a 403 response. As a workaround you can route the traffic from Glance through a VPN.

Example:

- type: reddit
  subreddit: technology

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
subreddit	string	yes
style	string	no	vertical-list
limit	integer	no	15
collapse-after	integer	no	5
comments-url-template	string	no	https://www.reddit.com/{POST-PATH}

`subreddit`

The subreddit for which to fetch the posts from.

`style`

Used to change the appearance of the widget. Possible values are vertical-list, horizontal-cards and vertical-cards. The first two were designed for full columns and the last for small columns.

vertical-list

horizontal-cards

vertical-cards

`limit`

The maximum number of posts to show.

`collapse-after`

How many posts are visible before the "SHOW MORE" button appears. Set to -1 to never collapse. Not available when using the vertical-cards and horizontal-cards styles.

`comments-url-template`

Used to replace the default link for post comments. Useful if you want to use the old Reddit design or any other 3rd party front-end. Example:

comments-url-template: https://old.reddit.com/{POST-PATH}

Placeholders:

{POST-PATH} - the full path to the post, such as:

r/selfhosted/comments/bsp01i/welcome_to_rselfhosted_please_read_this_first/

{POST-ID} - the ID that comes after /comments/

{SUBREDDIT} - the subreddit name

Weather

Display weather information for a specific location. The data is provided by https://open-meteo.com/.

Example:

- type: weather
  units: metric
  location: London, United Kingdom

Preview:

Each bar represents a 2 hour interval. The yellow background represents sunrise and sunset. The blue dots represent the times of the day where there is a high chance for precipitation. You can hover over the bars to view the exact temperature for that time.

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
location	string	yes
units	string	no	metric
hide-location	boolean	no	false

`location`

The name of the city and country to fetch weather information for. Attempting to launch the applcation with an invalid location will result in an error. You can use the gecoding API page to search for your specific location. Glance will use the first result from the list if there are multiple.

`units`

Whether to show the temperature in celsius or fahrenheit, possible values are metric or imperial.

`hide-location`

Optionally don't display the location name on the widget.

Monitor

Display a list of sites and whether they are reachable (online) or not. This is determined by sending a HEAD request to the specified URL, if the response is 200 then the site is OK. The time it took to receive a response is also shown in milliseconds.

Example:

- type: monitor
  cache: 1m
  title: Services
  sites:
    - title: Jellyfin
      url: https://jellyfin.yourdomain.com
      icon: /assets/jellyfin-logo.png
    - title: Gitea
      url: https://gitea.yourdomain.com
      icon: /assets/gitea-logo.png
    - title: Immich
      url: https://immich.yourdomain.com
      icon: /assets/immich-logo.png
    - title: AdGuard Home
      url: https://adguard.yourdomain.com
      icon: /assets/adguard-logo.png
    - title: Vaultwarden
      url: https://vault.yourdomain.com
      icon: /assets/vaultwarden-logo.png

Preview:

You can hover over the "ERROR" text to view more information.

Properties

Name	Type	Required
sites	array	yes

`sites`

Properties for each site:

Name	Type	Required
title	string	yes
url	string	yes
icon	string	no

title

The title used to indicate the site.

url

The URL which will be requested and its response will determine the status of the site.

icon

Optional URL to an image which will be used as the icon for the site. Can be an external URL or internal via server configured assets.

Releases

Display a list of releases for specific repositories on Github. Draft releases and prereleases will not be shown.

Example:

- type: releases
  repositories:
    - immich-app/immich
    - go-gitea/gitea
    - dani-garcia/vaultwarden
    - jellyfin/jellyfin

Preview:

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
repositories	array	yes
token	string	no
limit	integer	no	10
collapse-after	integer	no	5

`repositories`

A list of repositores for which to fetch the latest release for. Only the name/repo is required, not the full URL.

`token`

Without authentication Github allows for up to 60 requests per hour. You can easily exceed this limit and start seeing errors if you're tracking lots of repositories or your cache time is low. To circumvent this you can create a read only token from your Github account and provide it here.

You can also specify the value for this token through an ENV variable using the syntax ${GITHUB_TOKEN} where GITHUB_TOKEN is the name of the variable that holds the token. If you've installed Glance through docker you can specify the token in your docker-compose:

services:
  glance:
    image: glanceapp/glance
    environment:
      - GITHUB_TOKEN: <your token>

and then use it in your glance.yml like this:

- type: releases
  token: ${GITHUB_TOKEN}
  repositories: ...

This way you can safely check your glance.yml in version control without exposing the token.

`limit`

The maximum number of releases to show.

`collapse-after`

How many releases are visible before the "SHOW MORE" button appears. Set to -1 to never collapse.

Bookmarks

Display a list of links which can be grouped.

Example:

- type: bookmarks
  groups:
    - links:
        - title: Gmail
          url: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/
        - title: Amazon
          url: https://www.amazon.com/
        - title: Github
          url: https://github.com/
        - title: Wikipedia
          url: https://en.wikipedia.org/
    - title: Entertainment
      color: 10 70 50
      links:
        - title: Netflix
          url: https://www.netflix.com/
        - title: Disney+
          url: https://www.disneyplus.com/
        - title: YouTube
          url: https://www.youtube.com/
        - title: Prime Video
          url: https://www.primevideo.com/
    - title: Social
      color: 200 50 50
      links:
        - title: Reddit
          url: https://www.reddit.com/
        - title: Twitter
          url: https://twitter.com/
        - title: Instagram
          url: https://www.instagram.com/

Preview:

Properties

Name	Type	Required
groups	array	yes

`groups`

An array of groups which can optionally have a title and a custom color.

Properties for each group

Name	Type	Required	Default
title	string	no
color	HSL	no	the primary theme color
links	array	yes

Properties for each link

Name	Type	Required
title	string	yes
url	string	yes

Calendar

Display a calendar.

Example:

- type: calendar

Preview:

Note

There is currently no customizability available for the calendar. Extra features will be added in the future.

Stocks

Display a list of stocks, their current value, change for the day and a small 21d chart. Data is taken from Yahoo Finance.

Example:

- type: stocks
  stocks:
    - symbol: SPY
      name: S&P 500
    - symbol: BTC-USD
      name: Bitcoin
    - symbol: NVDA
      name: NVIDIA
    - symbol: AAPL
      name: Apple
    - symbol: MSFT
      name: Microsoft
    - symbol: GOOGL
      name: Google
    - symbol: AMD
      name: AMD
    - symbol: RDDT
      name: Reddit

Preview:

Properties

Name	Type	Required
stocks	array	yes
sort-by	string	no

`stocks`

An array of stocks for which to display information about.

Properties for each stock

Name	Type	Required
symbol	string	yes
name	string	no

symbol

The symbol, as seen in Yahoo Finance.

name

The name that will be displayed under the symbol.

`sort-by`

By default the stocks are displayed in the order they were defined. You can customize their ordering by setting the sort-by property to absolute-change for descending order based on the stock's absolute price change.

Twitch Channels

Display a list of channels from Twitch.

Example:

- type: twitch-channels
  channels:
    - jembawls
    - giantwaffle
    - asmongold
    - cohhcarnage
    - j_blow
    - xQc

Preview:

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
channels	array	yes
collapse-after	integer	no	5

`channels`

A list of channels to display.

`collapse-after`

How many channels are visible before the "SHOW MORE" button appears. Set to -1 to never collapse.

Twitch top games

Display a list of games with the most viewers on Twitch.

Example:

- type: twitch-top-games
  exclude:
    - just-chatting
    - pools-hot-tubs-and-beaches
    - music
    - art
    - asmr

Preview:

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
exclude	array	no
limit	integer	no	10
collapse-after	integer	no	5

`exclude`

A list of categories that will never be shown. You must provide the slug found by clicking on the category and looking at the URL:

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/grand-theft-auto-v
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

`limit`

The maximum number of games to show.

`collapse-after`

How many games are visible before the "SHOW MORE" button appears. Set to -1 to never collapse.

iframe

Embed an iframe as a widget.

Example:

- type: iframe
  source: <url>
  height: 400

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default
source	string	yes
height	integer	no	300

`source`

The source of the iframe.

`height`

The height of the iframe. The minimum allowed height is 50.

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Configuration

Intro

Preconfigured page

Server

Properties

host

port

assets-path

Examples

Theme

Themes

Properties

light

background-color

primary-color

positive-color

negative-color

contrast-multiplier

text-saturation-multiplier

custom-css-file

Pages & Columns

Pages

Properties

title

slug

Columns

Properties

Widgets

Shared Properties

type

title

cache

RSS

Properties

style

feeds

Properties for each feed

limit

collapse-after

Videos

Properties

channels

limit

video-url-template

Hacker News

Properties

comments-url-template

Reddit

Properties

subreddit

style

limit

collapse-after

comments-url-template

Weather

Properties

location

units

hide-location

Monitor

Properties

sites

Releases

Properties

repositories

token

limit

collapse-after

Bookmarks

Properties

groups

Properties for each group

Properties for each link

Calendar

Stocks

Properties

stocks

Properties for each stock

sort-by

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`host`

`port`

`assets-path`

`light`

`background-color`

`primary-color`

`positive-color`

`negative-color`

`contrast-multiplier`

`text-saturation-multiplier`

`custom-css-file`

`title`

`slug`

`type`

`title`

`cache`

`style`

`feeds`

`limit`

`collapse-after`

`channels`

`limit`

`video-url-template`

`comments-url-template`

`subreddit`

`style`

`limit`

`collapse-after`

`comments-url-template`

`location`

`units`

`hide-location`

`sites`

`repositories`

`token`

`limit`

`collapse-after`

`groups`

`stocks`

`sort-by`

`channels`

`collapse-after`

`exclude`

`limit`

`collapse-after`

`source`

`height`