Loadshedding Bitbar plugin

LoadShedding.10m.sh

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# <bitbar.title>Loadshedding Status</bitbar.title>
# <bitbar.version>v0.2</bitbar.version>
# <bitbar.author>Ronald Langeveld</bitbar.author>
# <bitbar.author.github>ronaldlangeveld</bitbar.author.github>
# <bitbar.image>https://i.imgur.com/JA7S0t7.png</bitbar.image>
# <bitbar.desc>Shows the current Loadshedding 💩 status</bitbar.desc>
# <bitbar.dependencies>python</bitbar.dependencies>
#

import json
import time
from datetime import datetime

try:
    # For Python 3.0 and later
    from urllib.request import urlopen
except ImportError:
    # Fall back to Python 2's urllib2
    from urllib2 import urlopen


try:
    body = urlopen("http://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/LoadShedding/GetStatus").read()
    obj = json.loads(body.decode('utf-8'))

    # for testing purposes
    # obj = 5

except:
    obj = 9999

if obj == 1:
    print("⚡")
    print("---")
    print("Currently not loadshedding")

if obj == 2:
    print("Stage 1 😑")
    print("---")
    print("Loadshedding in progress")

if obj == 3:
    print("Stage 2 😑")
    print("---")
    print("Loadshedding in progress")

if obj == 4:
    print("Stage 3 😔")
    print("---")
    print("Loadshedding in progress")

if obj == 5:
    print("Stage 4 😔")
    print("---")
    print("Loadshedding in progress")

if obj == 6:
    print("Stage 5 😵")
    print("---")
    print("Loadshedding in progress")

if obj == 7:
    print("Stage 6 🤮")
    print("---")
    print("Loadshedding in progress")

if obj == 8:
    print("Stage 7 🤮")
    print("---")
    print("Loadshedding in progress")

if obj == 9:
    print("Stage 8 🖕")
    print("---")
    print("Utterly Fucked")

if obj == 999:
    print("update failed")
    print("---")
    print("seriously time to upgrade your servers eskom")