get_plugin_data.py

import requests
import plistlib
from sys import stdout
import codecs
streamWriter = codecs.lookup('utf-8')[-1]
stdout = streamWriter(stdout)

headers = {
    # 'User-Agent': 'Quicksilver/3932 OSX/10.6.8 (x86)', # Snow Leopard
    # 'User-Agent': 'Quicksilver/3932 OSX/10.7.4 (x86)', # Lion
    # 'User-Agent': 'Quicksilver/3933 OSX/10.8.1 (x86)', # Mountian Lion
    # 'User-Agent': 'Quicksilver/4000 OSX/10.9.0 (x86)', # Mavericks
    'User-Agent': 'Quicksilver/4000 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8; en-us) (like Safari)',
    # 'User-Agent': 'Quicksilver/4000 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0; en-us) (like Safari)',
}
params = {
    'qsversion': '16384',
    'type': 'dev',
    # 'sids': 'com.blacktree.Quicksilver.QSEventTriggersPlugIn',
}

r = requests.get('http://qs0.qsapp.com/plugins/check.php', headers=headers, params=params)
if r.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
    # web_data = plistlib.readPlistFromString(r.text)
    # print web_data.keys()
    stdout.write(r.text)
else:
    print 'Error downloading data: {0}'.format(r.status_code)