44con talks page watch

44con_talks_watch.sh

#!/bin/bash

OS=`uname` 
URL44CON="https://44con.com/44con/44con-2018/44con-2018-schedule/"
#SET this to rickroll or w/e just make sure your speakers are on full volume
YTALERT="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H91rPIq2mN4"

if [ "Darwin" == "${OS}" ]; then
    BROWSER="open";
elif [ "Linux" == "${OS}" ]; then
    BROWSER="sensible-browser" #Replace this with your browser of choice e.g. firefox
else
    echo "OS Detection FAILED :( Aborting"
    exit 1
fi

#If you have not already set your ~/.curlrc you will want to set -H "User-Agent: A_BROWSER_UA_STRING" flag to curl.
#sleep command is present to preseve Wheatons law, remove it and you are a dick.
echo "XXX The OS detected is ${OS} I will use ${BROWSER} to open the URLs"; #Uncomment this line to echo out the detected OS & browser
while true; do curl -s ${URL44CON} | grep 'Oops' || (${BROWSER} "${YTALERT}" && \
sleep 1 &&
${BROWSER} "${URL44CON}"); \
sleep 10; done

There may be some bugs, this was written quickly with coffee in hand so should be OK but YMMV :)

Fixed a few bugs, talks are up now FWIW the YT alert will play provided you have a fairly fast connection as I added a sleep for 1s between opening that and the Talks window :) As YT no longer plays in the BG afaict.

updated for 2018, at the time of writing page returns 404 so script greps for 'Oops' and in the absence of this will launch the page and YT alert video