Contact's Apple's selfserve servers to capture warranty information about your product. Accepts arguments of machine serial numbers.

Apple GSX Warranty Info

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# File:  Warranty.rb
#
# Decription: Contact's Apple's selfserve servers to capture warranty information
#              about your product. Accepts arguments of machine serial numbers.
# Contributed by Gary Larizza

require 'open-uri'
require 'openssl'

# This is a complete hack to disregard SSL Cert validity for the Apple
#  Selfserve site.  We had SSL errors as we're behind a proxy.  I'm
#  open suggestions for doing it 'Less-Hacky.' You can delete this 
#  code if your network does not have SSL issues with open-uri.
# module OpenSSL
#   module SSL
#     remove_const:VERIFY_PEER
#   end
# end
# OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

def get_warranty(serial)
  serial = serial.upcase
  hash = {}
  open('https://selfsolve.apple.com/warrantyChecker.do?sn=' + serial.upcase + '&country=USA') {|item|
    item.each_line {|item|}
    warranty_array = item.strip.split('"')
    warranty_array.each {|array_item|
      hash[array_item] = warranty_array[warranty_array.index(array_item) + 2] if array_item =~ /[A-Z][A-Z\d]+/
    }
  }

  {:serial_number => hash['SERIAL_ID'],
   :product_description => hash['PROD_DESCR'],
   :purchase_date => hash['PURCHASE_DATE'].gsub("-","."),
   :coverage_end_date => !hash['COV_END_DATE'].empty? ? hash['COV_END_DATE'].gsub("-",".") : "EXPIRED",
   :days_remaining_in_coverage => hash['DAYS_REM_IN_COV']
  }
end

serials = []

if ARGV.size == 0 then
  puts "Without your input, we'll use this machine's serial number."
  serials << %x(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}').upcase.chomp
else
  serials << ARGV
end

serials.each do |serial|
  warranty = get_warranty(serial)
  
  puts "\nSerial Number:\t\t#{warranty[:serial_number]}\n"
  puts "Product Decription:\t#{warranty[:product_description]}\n"
  puts "Purchase date:\t\t#{warranty[:purchase_date]}"
  puts "Coverage end:\t\t#{warranty[:coverage_end_date]}\n"
  puts "Days Remaining in Cov:\t#{warranty[:days_remaining_in_coverage]}\n"
end