Watch for Apple event video posting

appleevent.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# encoding: utf-8

# Pings Apple events page until the video is posted
# Videos are usually live ~6 hours after official start time
#
# $ git clone https://gist.github.com/3711799.git appleevent
# $ ruby appleevent/appleevent.rb

require 'date'
require 'net/http'

url = "http://www.apple.com/apple-events/#{Date::MONTHNAMES[Date.today.month].downcase}-#{Date.today.year}/"
uri = URI(url)

STDOUT.sync = true
puts "Checking #{url}"

redirect_script = %[<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">location.href="/apple-events/"</script>]

1000.times do
  result = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)

  if result.code.to_i == 200 && result.body !=~ /http-equiv="refresh"/ && result.body.strip != redirect_script
    print "😄\n"
    %x(open -a Safari #{url})
    break
  else
    print '.'
    sleep 30
  end
end