Meta Widget
Almost any simple element can be parsed out of a website
- images, lists of similar articles, feeds or features. Use it for local papers, web comics, site statistics, analytics, account information, forums, threads, inbox status, weather maps, stocks, pics of the day and even Facebook pages!
Any widget created through Meta can be customized and automatically updated, or updated on user interaction.
★ Create widgets from almost any website element
★ Parse graphs and images
★ Extract statistics and information from authorized sites
★ Configure widgets (background, alignment, etc.)
★ Automatic updates
★ User defined click actions
★ Lots of other cool stuff
This app is now completely free. Enjoy.
INSTRUCTIONS:
To get started, add a Meta Widget to your home screen and navigate to the site you want to widgetize. Then, when you get to the page you want, check the box in the lower left corner and tap somewhere on the page. It'll surround that element in an orange box, after which you can move the selection tool around with the arrows at the bottom of the screen. When you find the element you want to put on your home screen, tap the plus sign and go to town configuring text colors, widget alignment, and more to make it look just right.
NOTE:
This method of creating widgets will not always work for every site and element. But it should work for many with the proper CSS corrections.
NOTE 2:
We only provide technical support for this app (if for example it stops working on a new Android version, we will fix this), but do not provide any direct help in creating widgets or formatting them.
Category : Productivity
Reviews (28)
UI is difficult for a beginner or even intermediate user but after you figure it out it works really well. Update: This app is pretty awesome for some phones. I had a Vivo and it wouldn't ever automatically update. I have a Note 10 Plus now and it doesn't allow me to go through the steps to add a widget. It keeps signing me out and once signed in, it doesn't allow me to click and the arrows for movement are missing. Please update, I would love to have this on my new phone.
This app really makes life easier with great customization. Just a suggestion that when we select the line it displays 'Use All as a list' and other similar lines. It could be better if I could select 2 lines out of 3 rather than creating multiple widgets. Update: this stopped working. Now when I click on widget to refresh. Its not doing anything. Just sits there.
Great solution for users with a little web tech, programming skill and patience. I use it to display the river water levels in my town so i can choose my route to work subject to floods. Choosing the page and the page element to display was a snap, and a little experimentation with the regex formatter allowed me to cut extraneous text from the retrieved info. Although i configured it to update every two hours, it doesn't. But i can tap the widget and hit update twice a day, no problem.
The app is far from intuitive. When I finally did get the info I wanted to display, the widget continuously freezes up. It'll stop updating, and the only way to make it respond again is to delete the widget and make a new one. This is within minutes of making it, btw. So, it's utterly worthless in that case.
Not able to "capture" anything. No matter what I did, nor in what "mode" I did it in, all I saw was the webpage. I could interact with it, like copy text; bit not "select" any part of it. Total failure. Android 12.
In "pick mode" for the reason unknown it reloads the page the very different way, without what you mean completely. Either erased, or invisible, you just cannot pick an element you want to. Btw, other products of this developer are abandonware absolutely. No and never support or bugfix.
Great app, but ... After I configure my webpage, the widget shows up, but after as little as one minute it will stop responding forever: no matter what actions are configured for tap, no update nor open widget works. All I can do is remove the widget from the screen. Can you PLEASE fix ? Then it will be 5 stars for sure.
App crashes every day with most recent android update on galaxy s7. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling. It worked for a day, then crashed. So sad, because i love this app for checking lake level and status of bike trails.
Recent update has broken this app, emailed the support address last week but no response. No widgets now display, it would be very easy to roll back to a prev working version but the dev's appear to ignore the many bad reviews and leave the app broken, why? Great pity as this used to be a useful app. It would be nice to get a response from the Dev's. Using: Android 7.1.1 & 5.0.2
Not sure why all the bad reviews. Sure it could use a bit more customization with font and what not, but be greatful that something like this even exists!
Very flexible and configurable. I had rated at five stars but it just stopped working for me. I will bump up the rating again if i can get it working.
So nearly brilliant. Does not refresh automatically and widgets fail after phone restart. Fix those 2 things and this is amazing.
Great potential but app does not update on its own like it should and when I restart my phone the widget disappears and you have to create it again. Would use if fixed its a good idea
This widget is great and very intuitive. The most recent update to my Samsung S10 rendered this widget non-working however. I hope to see an update soon.
It worked with my Note 9 Android Pie, but not sure why it's no longer working with my Note 10+ The app keeps crashing and therefore the widgets don't update.
For any of you that are complaining about the app freezing, go to your phone's settings and turn off the Optimise battery usage thing.
I made the widgets but its not updating by it self, i choose 1 min option to update, it upadte for some time and freeze now. Help me to resolve this problem
Was awesome, but latest update makes it unusable. Have contacted developers but received no response. Hope it gets fixed soon!
So much customisable. I think we can only choose specific frames within the page, not the whole web page.
android pie 9 - go into battery settings and allow the app to use battery in the background and it should fix your problems! mine is updating again!
Oh my god.. This is amazing. Thank you so much for this! I can finally make widgets that have information I want to display from websites, and have it update automatically!
Used to be an awesome app which I've used for years, but latest update broke it. Support is not replying. Paid user too.
Does as described except does not update automatically but does update when manually done. Would be great (5 star) if this were fixed.
Great idea, but the developer has clearly abandoned the project, leaving behind a defective mess.
Would be ready to pay for this if it was available on AndroidTV. We could display web content without bulky browser.
Broken app. Was going to contact support but it looks like many have already. I'll have to check back.
have to create a new widget after rebooting phone.... looks like support is dropped. if it worked, 5 starts...
This apps is truly useful, as it is more optimized than most web widgets (due to it's limitations, that's true, but that's also a strong point.) It really understands what parts of the websitezis imporant to the user. Though, It would have been cool to be able to make a refreshing list of images...