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cd $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR
echo "Comparing/Updating main_post table in db to sync production to local"
./sqldiff db.sqlite3 $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR/data/db.sqlite3 --table main_post > update_db.sql
sqlite3 db.sqlite3 < update_db.sql

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from twitch.api.v3 import streams

# check stream w/twitch api https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/blob/master/v3_resources/streams.md#get-streamschannel
check = streams.by_channel('<replace channel name>')
# if stream None (not live) then type == dict is False (otherwise True when live)
air_status = type(check['stream']) == dict

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from lxml import html
import requests
    
#scrape periscope desktop page; meta tag token-id content is empty when not streaming
page = requests.get('https://www.periscope.tv/<replace username>')
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
air_status = tree.xpath('//*[@id="token-id"]/@content')

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from lxml import html
from selenium import webdriver

# scrape from mixlr page after js done (element won't exist otherwise)
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='<replace path>/phantomjs.exe') # another webdriver works fine
driver.get('http://mixlr.com/<replace username>')
tree = html.fromstring(driver.page_source)
air_status = tree.xpath('//*[@id="broadcaster_status"]/span[2]//text()')
driver.quit()