Make hard coded content an external link to it... HELP!!

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I currently have a hard code in the channel that goes like the one below… However, how can I place this into an external website and then input a code that replaces all of this so it can load it from the website. Therefore, if I add new content I can simply update the external website.


Function loadConfig() as Object
    arr = [
'##### Format for inputting stream info #####
'## For each channel, enclose in brackets ## 
'{
'   Title: Channel Title
'   streamFormat: Channel stream type (ex. "hls", "ism", "mp4", etc..)
'   Logo: Channel Logo (ex. "http://Roku.com/Roku.jpg)
'   Stream: URL to stream (ex. http://hls.Roku.com/talks/xxx.m3u8)
'}
    
{
    Title: "Roku Example One"
    streamFormat: "HLS"
    Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
    Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
    Title: "Roku Example Two"
    streamFormat: "HLS"
    Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
    Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
    Title: "Roku Example Three"
    streamFormat: "mp4"
    Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
    Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
    Title: "Roku Example Four"
    streamFormat: "mp4"
    Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
    Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
    Title: "Roku Example Five"
    streamFormat: "mp4"
    Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
    Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
    Title: "Roku Example Six"
    streamFormat: "mp4"
    Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
    Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
    
    
    
'##### Make sure all Channel content is above this line #####    
    ] 
    return arr
End Function
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Are you doing this in a Scene Graph channel or using standard components?

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“belltown” wrote:
Are you doing this in a Scene Graph channel or using standard components?
scenegraph

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Take a look at the Task Markup example in the Control Nodes Markup Scene Graph tutorial (https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Control+Nodes+Markup), particularly the contentreader.xml file.