Gets a list of packages needed to update and pushes a notification to a pushbullet device.

rubybullet.rb

require 'net/https'
require 'uri'
require 'json'

PUSHBULLET_API_URL = "https://api.pushbullet.com/api/pushes"
PUSHBULLET_API_KEY = ""
PUSHBULLET_DEVICE_ID = ""

# make root only later

IO.popen("sudo apt-get update")
packages = `sudo apt-get upgrade -s`
parsed = packages.split("\n")

$new_pkgs = Array.new

parsed.each{ |l| $new_pkgs << l.split(" ")[1] if l[0..3] == "Inst" }

uri = URI.parse(PUSHBULLET_API_URL)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
req.basic_auth PUSHBULLET_API_KEY, ""
req.set_form_data(	"device_iden" => PUSHBULLET_DEVICE_ID,
					"type" => "list",
					"title" => "Update to packages needed",
					"items" => $new_pkgs)

res = http.request(req)

if res.code == 200
	puts res.body
else
	# Error reporting here
end