Simple warranty parser based on the work done by glarizza ./warranty.py >foo.plist ; open foo.plist

warranty.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import ast
import plistlib
import urllib2
import subprocess
system_profiler = "/usr/sbin/system_profiler"

# Generic system_profiler parser
def systemReport():
  global spx
  spx = {} 
  # This is our key value schema
  SPHardwareDataType = {
    'serial': 'serial_number',
  }
  _dataTypes = {
   'SPHardwareDataType': SPHardwareDataType,
  }
  dataTypes = _dataTypes.keys()
  # run the system_profiler command with data types
  arguments = [system_profiler,"-xml"] + dataTypes
  getspx = subprocess.Popen(arguments, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
  spxOut, err = getspx.communicate()
  rootObject = plistlib.readPlistFromString(spxOut)
  # Parse datatype top level keys below
  for array in rootObject:
    for _dataType in _dataTypes:
      if array['_dataType'] == _dataType:
        _dataTypeSchema = _dataTypes[_dataType]
        for key in _dataTypeSchema:
          for item in array['_items']:
            # add a key to our dict per the schema
            spx[key] = item[_dataTypeSchema[key]]
# generate a xml plist so NSPropertyListSerialization is overkill here 
systemReport()
# Generate the URL by concatenating the string
url = 'http://selfsolve.apple.com/warrantyChecker.do?sn=' + spx['serial'] + '&country=USA'
request = urllib2.Request(url)
httpResult = urllib2.urlopen(request)
# remove the "^null" string to make tuple with dict inside
warranty = ast.literal_eval(httpResult.read()[4:])
# Just an example of how to parse the data
#for key in warranty: print "%s\t%s" % (key,warranty[key])
print plistlib.writePlistToString(warranty)