Upstart, update-identica and my blog
Hi friends,
‘Curl’ is one of the fantastic tool I’m using day to day. and Upstart is one good upgrade to the long standing ‘rc.*’ method to start and stop services. While learning TwitterAPI to interact with ‘identi.ca’, I got an idea to update my laptop’s CPU usage to the ‘identi.ca’ feed whenever my system starts and attach that feed into my blog. Well, It developed into something usable now. here is the script
#!/bin/bash
# update-identica - script to update my identi.ca feed
USERID=""
PASSWORD=""
BASEURL="http://identi.ca/api"
UPDATEAPIURL="/statuses/update.xml"
UPDATEURL="${BASEURL}${UPDATEAPIURL}"
MAXMESSAGES="10"
LOGFILE="/var/log/update-identica.log"
LOGFILESIZE=$(du -sb "${LOGFILE}" | awk '{print $1;}')
MAXLOGFILESIZE=$((1024 * 1024))
test "${LOGFILESIZE}" -gt "${MAXLOGFILESIZE}" && rm "${LOGFILE}"
INTERVAL=$((5 * 60))
destroymessages()
{
EXTRAMESSAGES=$((MESSAGECOUNT - MAXMESSAGES))
EXTRAMESSAGEIDS=$(curl -u "${USERID}:${PASSWORD}" "${BASEURL}/statuses/user_timeline.xml" 2>/dev/null |
grep '[0-9]\{7\}' | cut -d'>' -f2 | cut -d'/dev/null |
tee -a "${LOGFILE}"
done
}
while true
do
MESSAGE="status="
MESSAGE="${MESSAGE}[cpu:$(vmstat 1 2 | tail -1 | awk '{print $13+$14;}')%]"
MESSAGE="${MESSAGE} [uptime:$(uptime | cut -d',' -f1 | tr -d ' ')]"
curl -u "${USERID}:${PASSWORD}" -d "${MESSAGE}" "${UPDATEURL}" 2>/dev/null | tee -a "${LOGFILE}"
MESSAGECOUNT=$(grep '' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1)
test "${MESSAGECOUNT}" -gt "${MAXMESSAGES}" && destroymessages
sleep "${INTERVAL}"
done
Also call this script automatically by creating a event file /etc/events.d/update-identica
# update-identica # a small program to update this laptop's feed in # http://identi.ca start on update-identica-event start on runlevel 2 stop on runlevel [!2] exec /usr/bin/update-identica
Download: update-identica
Take a look at the feed titled ‘My laptop’s health’ in this blog, it is the feed which my laptop is updating every 5 minutes.
If you are interested in WebAPIs and accessing through ‘curl’, then here is link, ‘lucanica(identi.ca’s software)’ also using the same REST methods to give web services.
