new_contents: import urllib2
  import json
  import time
  
  global lastID
  lastID = 0
  refresh = 15    #refresh time in secs
  urlRoot = "http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/1417/"
  
  #retrieve and load the JSON data into a JSON object
  def getJSON(url):
      jsonFeed = urllib2.urlopen(urlRoot + url)
      feedData = jsonFeed.read()
      #print feedData
      jsonFeed.close()
  
      data = json.loads(feedData)
      return data
  
  #use the JSON object to identify the colour in use,
  #update the last entry_id processed
  def parseColour(feed):
      global lastID
      print feed["created_at"], feed["field1"]
      lastID = getEntryID(feed)
  
  #read the last entry_id
  def getEntryID(feed):
      return int(feed["entry_id"])
  
  #main program
  
  #process the currently available list of colours
  data = getJSON("feed.json")
  for feed in data["feeds"]:
      parseColour(feed)
  
  #check for new colour requests
  while True:
      data = getJSON("field/1/last.json")
      
      if getEntryID(data) > lastID:   #Have processed this entry_id before?
          parseColour(data)
      time.sleep(refresh)
  
subject: Create console.py