I finally got around to writing/documenting the Python script I use to grab external API data (in this case, from a Board Game Geek API) and layering the results into ANSI file. It's not really a mod, just commented code -- but if anyone cares to check it out:
https://bit.ly/apimenu
Could be adapted to whatever API data you need to grab. Not rocket science,
and I learned a lot from existing/similar news and weather scripts that have been floating around for a while.
If you want to see it in action, it's the main menu at cardandclaw.com:8888
Cheers,
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