Nagios Plugin to check appengine's current system status by scraping https://code.google.com/status/appengine/

appengine_check.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# stdlib imports
import sys

# third-party imports
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


def fetch_status():
    url = 'https://code.google.com/status/appengine/'
    return requests.get(url).content


def parse_status(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
    statuses = soup.find_all(class_='ae-trust-col-now-prod')
    return set([x.text.strip() for x in statuses])


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(parse_status(fetch_status())) > 1:
        print "Appengine service interruption: https://code.google.com/status/appengine/"
        sys.exit(2)

    print "Appengine operating normally"
    sys.exit(0)