Ok, there is a tiny size=.5 badge now as well.

I added a badge generator today. You will see a little red Rosette icon under your image on your profile page now. Or you can just go to /ba if you are logged in, or /ba/<your id> if you aren't.

I should probably add something smaller than size 1 as well. I'll work on that later.

I'm not that worried about load. My graphing code is pretty efficient and I cache the raw run data on my server so I don't have to hit the Nike backend. And yes, the graphing code can do this. I just haven't gotten around to documenting it. It's a bit geeky, but this is after all Slowgeek...

If you look at the link for an image, you will see it refers to a run id. If you replace the run id with you numerical user id, the grapher will graph the latest run for that user instead. Like this:

http://img.slowgeek.com/?u_id=672755839

There are a bunch of parameters you can pass to change the look. First, you can make it bigger:

http://img.slowgeek.com/?u_id=672755839&size=1.5

Valid sizes are 1, 1.5, 2 and 3

And the may not want your nike id cluttering up your graph, so add n=0 to get rid of that.

http://img.slowgeek.com/?u_id=672755839&size=1.5&n=0

Other parameters:

raw=0 disables the grey raw data line
yzero=1 forces the graph to start at 0 on the y-axis
unit=km forces the graph to km (unit=mi for miles)
hp=1 hides pauses
hc=1 hides clicks
hs=1 hides the split times
hd=1 hides run comment (the d is for Description which is what it is called in the data)

I'll add a badge-generator page to my todo list that dumbs what I explained down.

is there an approved way to embed my latest run info from slowgeek (specifically, an image, not some flash monstrosity) on my own html webpages?

Nike isn't supporting their flash-based badges anymore (the info about them has been taken off their site since they re-did it), and the datafeeds that existing ones use apparently have some Y2k10 bugs, since all my runs since new-years show up as from '00. See http://www.ryan.net/misc/skitch/nikebadge-20100201-133209.jpg for an example.

I'd love to link to a slowgeek image to embed on my homepage/blog , or have a url that means "most recent run image". If there's a concern about site-load or traffic costs, I'd accept (or prefer, actually) something I could scrape via cron.

I could do this now, actually, with a handful of requests and a little html parsing, but if there's an "official" way to do this that I missed in the FAQ, please let me know. Thanks!