Instead of manually updating the Featured section if/when it gets updated by code.org, you can use this Library I just created to get the status of the public gallery. You can even get projects of a specific type.
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Oh, and for the Library section, AppInfo now includes information about the library (if it is one) under data.library
. An app with data.library.exists = true
is a library.