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}" "${BASEURL}/statuses/user_timeline.xml" 2>/dev/null |
grep '[0-9]\{7\}' | cut -d'>' -f2 | tee -a "${LOGFILE}"
}
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
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.
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation
