Engine Light status endpoint script for www.codeforamerica.org

well-known-status.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from json import dumps
from time import time

try:
  lib_state = open('/var/run/library-state.txt').read().strip()

  if lib_state != 'OK':
    app_state = 'Library: ' + lib_state
  else:
    app_state = 'ok'
except Exception, e:
  app_state = 'App: ' + str(e)

print 'Content-Type: application/json\n'
print dumps({
  "status": app_state,
  "updated": int(time()),
  "dependencies": ["Github", "Travis-CI", "Amazon RDS"],
  "resources": []
  })