Get the London tube status on your CLI & Conky

tube.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.6

import urllib
from xml.dom import minidom
from optparse import OptionParser

status_url = "http://api.tubeupdates.com/?method=get.status&lines=%s&format=xml"

def main(lines, show_message):
    url = status_url % ','.join(lines)

    dom = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(url))
    for line in dom.getElementsByTagName('line'):
        line_name = line.getElementsByTagName('name')[0].firstChild.data
        status = line.getElementsByTagName('status')[0].firstChild.data
		
        print line_name, status
        if cmp(status, "good service") and show_message:
            messages = line.getElementsByTagName('messages')[0]
            for message in messages.getElementsByTagName('message'):
                print message.firstChild.data

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = OptionParser()
    parser.add_option("-s", "--status",
                action="store_false", dest="status", default=True,
                help="Print only status and line name.")

    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    main(args, options.status)

related: http://www.unlogic.co.uk/blog/2012/06/tube-status/