Throw the Mind [dot] Com » script http://throwthemind.com Wed, 23 May 2012 18:57:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 GeekTool Rss Script http://throwthemind.com/2007/09/20/geektool-rss-script/ http://throwthemind.com/2007/09/20/geektool-rss-script/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:44:52 +0000 Nathan http://throwthemind.com/index.php/2007/09/20/geektool-rss-script/ Here is a little script a friend help me put together. It it basically a caching RSS reader for GeekTool. I use it to display my Netflix query on my desktop, as well as My MeeVee listing. Just change the LOG, RSS lines and it will pull the title lines out of RSS feeds. If you want more you can change the curl lines. Have fun.

    #!/bin/sh
    LOG=/Users/Nathan/scripts/netflix_queue.txt
    RSS=”http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1414648916102002442351662043565655″
    size=$(ls -all $LOG | awk ‘{print $5}’)

    if [ ! -f $LOG ]; then
    curl -s $RSS | grep title | sed -E ‘s/<\/?title>//g’ > $LOG
    else
    age=$(echo $(date “+%s”) – $(stat -t “%s” $LOG 2>/dev/null | awk -F\” ‘{print $4}’) | bc -l)
    if [ "$age" -gt 3600 -o $size = 0 ]; then
    curl -s $RSS | grep title | sed -E ‘s/<\/?title>//g’ > $LOG
    fi
    fi
    cat $LOG

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