A little bash command line script to check Github's status with colored output!

gh_status.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Get status from Github
response=$(curl --silent https://status.github.com/api/last-message.json | sed "s/{//" | sed "s/}//")
IFS=',' read -a messages <<< "$response"

#Colors
red="\033[0;31m"
green="\033[0;32m"
yellow="\033[0;33m"

# Extract the status
msg_status=$(echo $messages[0] | sed 's/"//g' | sed 's/status://' | sed 's/\[0\]//')

# Color coding based on severity
if [ $msg_status = 'good' ]; then
  color=$green
elif [ $msg_status = 'minor' ]; then
  color=$yellow
elif [ $msg_status = 'major' ]; then
  color=$red
fi

# Output
echo -e "${color}${messages[1]}\033[0m" | sed 's/"//g' | sed 's/body://'