I am looking for a solution (application) that would allow me to make a request to particular web page every x seconds and retrieve the number (the number is the only content there, no html, no xml or anything else) and display this number in the taskbar.
Is there such application out there?
Thank you
The following python snippet should work for you:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
import sys
import urllib2
from gi.repository import Gtk, GLib
from gi.repository import AppIndicator3 as appindicator
class MyIndicator:
def __init__(self):
# Create Indicator with icon and label
icon_image = "/usr/share/unity/icons/panel-shadow.png"
self.ind = appindicator.Indicator.new(
"MagicNumber",
icon_image,
appindicator.IndicatorCategory.APPLICATION_STATUS
)
self.ind.set_status(appindicator.IndicatorStatus.ACTIVE)
self.menu_structure()
# Menu structure
def menu_structure(self):
# GTK menu
self.menu = Gtk.Menu()
self.exit = Gtk.MenuItem("Exit")
self.exit.connect("activate", self.quit)
self.exit.show()
self.menu.append(self.exit)
self.ind.set_menu(self.menu)
content = urllib2.urlopen('http://askubuntu.com/questions')
questions = re.search('<div class="summarycount al">(.*?)</div>', content.read())
self.ind.set_label(str(questions.group(1)), "")
GLib.timeout_add_seconds(2,self.menu_structure)
def quit(self, widget):
sys.exit(0)
if __name__ == "__main__":
indicator = MyIndicator()
Gtk.main()
Just replace the url, the 2 second delay and the re.search pattern for your needs.
re.search('(.*)', content.read()) should work if your file only contains the number.
The above code displays the total questions on Askubuntu in your taskbar:
