River levels, flood and weather warnings, and council alerts — embedded directly in your articles and kept up to date automatically, the way a tweet or Instagram post embeds today. Designed for news agencies and websites to display live river levels and storm content.
Getting started is quick and easy. Once your domain is approved by our team, you're ready to start embedding live alerts on your site — a simple, one-time step, and you're all set. Get in touch and provide your domains or websites. We will do the rest.
Once your site is approved, getting a code for any individual alert is simple: alert items on the MapAlerter website now include an "embed" option, much like a tweet or a YouTube video. Click the embed code, copy to clipboard, and paste it into your article — no separate login or account is required. You can find examples by searching on the Live River Sensor or Bathing Water Quality pages.
Every embed is two lines: a placeholder and a script tag. It resizes itself to fit the content, only loads once a reader scrolls to it, and lets a reader tap the chart or map to view it enlarged.
<div class="mapalerter-embed" data-goid="a1b2c3d4e5f6..."></div>
<script async src="https://embed.mapalerter.ie/embed.js"></script>
If your website has a security setting called a Content Security
Policy, your developer may need to add embed.mapalerter.ie
to its script-src allowed list.
These are real, live alerts, exactly as they'd appear once pasted into your own page. They appear full width or stacked, depending on the available space.
It looks and behaves like a familiar social embed, but it's built specifically for live, location-based alerts. For example, river heights continually update on embeds so you do not have to add multiple embeds for the same topic during storms or periods heavy rainfall. Other interactive features include:
Something not working, or a change that would make this more useful for your newsroom? We'd like to hear it.