Openbox pipemenu and conky Python script to turn dropbox-cli on and off and return status of sync

menu-dropbox.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
'''
menu-dropbox.py

Display Dropbox daemon sync status and progress for Conky and Openbox menu.
Provide daemon toggle on / off options for Openbox menu.

Options:
-m Return minutes remaining: ${execbar ~/.config/openbox/menu-dropbox.py -m}
-o Return Openbox pipe menu
-d Return description: ${exec ~/.config/openbox/menu-dropbox.py -t}

Uses:
> dropbox-cli status
  Syncing "a" (13 mins left)
  Uploading "a" (134.3 KB/sec, 13 mins left)
  Dropbox isn't running!
  Up to date
  Syncing (8 files remaining) / Uploading 8 files...
  Syncing "test.png" (8 secs left) / Uploading "test.png" (965.5 KB/sec, 8 secs left)
  Syncing "test.png" (1 sec left) / Uploading "test.png" (259.5 KB/sec, 1 sec left)
  Syncing (2 files remaining, 53 secs left) / Uploading 2 files (77.2 KB/sec, 53 secs left)
  Syncing (2 files remaining, 2 mins left) / Uploading 2 files (33.2 KB/sec, 2 mins left)
  Syncing "test.txt" (1 min left)][Uploading "test.txt" (46,228 KB/sec, 1 min left)

Was:
cat << EOFMENU
<openbox_pipe_menu>
<separator label="`dropbox-cli status | head -1 | sed s/\"/\'/g`" />
<item label="Dropbox Start"><action name="Execute"><command>dropbox-cli start</command></action></item>
<item label="Dropbox Stop"><action name="Execute"><command>dropbox-cli stop</command></action></item>
</openbox_pipe_menu>
EOFMENU

Anil Gulati
10/02/2018
'''

import string
import sys
import subprocess

description = '[dropbox-cli status unknown]' # Default description.
minutes = 100 # Use 100 minutes as arbitrary maximum.
additional = '' # May not always have additional lines.

# Get the Dropbox client daemon status and pick a single line of text.
try:
    ran = subprocess.run(['dropbox-cli', 'status'], timeout=2, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, universal_newlines=True)
    additional = ran.stdout.splitlines() # Just catch all the lines here first.
    description = additional[0] or description # Grab first line of output or default if nothing.
    description = description.replace('"', "'") # Double quotes pollute Openbox menu.
    additional = len(additional) > 1 and additional[1] or '' # Get additional information line if available.
    additional = additional.replace('"', "'") # Double quotes pollute Openbox menu.
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
    description = '[Error: dropbox-cli timeout!]'
except:
    description = '[Error: dropbox-cli exception!]'

# Scrape the text for minutes left to sync.
number = 100 # In case can't find a number in preceding words.
tab = str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation) # Translate table to delete punctuation.
for word in description.split():
    word = word.translate(tab) # Remove punctuation to elicit number from ' (12 mins remaining) '.
    if word.isdigit(): number = int(word) # Cache any whole numbers found.
    if word == 'secs' or word == 'sec': minutes = 1 # Approximate conversion from seconds to minutes.
    if word == 'mins' or word == 'min': minutes = number # Previous number must be minutes.

# Convert frequently occurring scenarios.
if description == "Dropbox isn't running!": description, minutes = 'Sync off', 100
if description == "Up to date": description, minutes = 'Sync complete', 0

# Return request output.
if len(sys.argv) <= 1 or 'd' in sys.argv[1]: print(description) # -d returns simple description.
elif 'm' in sys.argv[1]: print(minutes > 100 and 100 or minutes) # Limit minutes to 100 for Conky bar graph.
else: # -o returns Openbox pipe menu.
    print((
    '<openbox_pipe_menu>'
    '<separator label="{description}" />'
    '{additional}'
    '<item label="Dropbox {command}"><action name="Execute"><command>dropbox-cli {command}</command></action></item>'
    '</openbox_pipe_menu>'
    ).format(
    description=description,
    additional=(additional and '<separator label="{0}" />'.format(additional) or ''),
    command=(description == 'Sync off' and 'start' or 'stop')
    ))