Plugin for displaying current global foundation stats on an external site

[jcn]

This is a request from Dionne Mahaffey (Awesome Atlanta). The Awesome Atlanta page displays the current stats for Awesome (number of chapters and amount given out) on their homepage. However, this number is just updated manually every so often. It would be nice if there could be some kind of JS that could be embedded on a page that would dynamically pull from an endpoint on the global site.

An example of how this could work:

• Embed code on third-party site to display a stat:
• Link to a script to do the replacement on the page that would hit code on our site: <script src="..."></script>

Open questions:

• How does this work with cross-site scripting stuff? I assume there's a way around it, but it has to be considered
• What happens if the JS doesn't fire? How do we make sure the page continues to display something that makes sense?