Tired of the Norwegian postal service (Posten/Bring) tagging shipments as "attempted delivered, nobody present/unknown address" without actually attempting to deliver the package? This script monitors the package tracking page and plays a siren sound/alert when the status changes. You can then call customer support and complain at +4721316234, i…

bring-monitor.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

'''
Tired of the Norwegian postal service (Posten/Bring) tagging shipments as 
"attempted delivered, nobody present/unknown address" without actually 
attempting to deliver the package? This script monitors the package tracking 
page and plays a siren sound/alert when the status changes. You can then call 
customer support and complain at +4721316234, if you're lucky they'll call the 
delivery driver and tell him to return and actually deliver the package.

Requires requests and BeautifulSoup to run.
'''

import subprocess
import sys
import time

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

while True:
	r = requests.get('http://sporing.bring.no/sporing.html', params=dict(q=sys.argv[1]))
	soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
	tooltip = soup.find_all('span', rel='tooltip')[0].string

	if tooltip != 'Sendingen er lastet opp for utkjøring':
		print('Fuck Posten/Bring!')
		subprocess.run(['mpv', 'siren.mp3'])
		break

	sys.stdout.write('.')
	sys.stdout.flush()
	time.sleep(10)