Poll the Apple Store for shipping status of the 12" MacBook

rmbstatus.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8

import json
import re
import sys

try:
    import urllib.request as _urllib
except ImportError:
    import urllib2 as _urllib


try:
    region = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
    region = 'sg_edu_4911'

r = _urllib.urlopen('http://store.apple.com/{0}/buy-mac/macbook/space-grey-256gb'.format(region))
html = r.read().decode('utf-8')
status_text = re.compile(r'^\s+window\.productSelectionController\.addData\((.*)\);$')

status_str = ''
for line in html.split('\n'):
    m = status_text.match(line)
    if m:
        status_str = m.group(1)
        break

status_block = json.loads(status_str)
for product in status_block['products']:
    print(
        '{0} {1} = {2}'.format(product['dimensionCapacity'], product['dimensionColor'], product['displayShippingQuote'])
    )