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Watch a specific petition (assumes you have toilet (figlet) installed
#!/usr/bin/python3
#
# This is a quick and dirty script to watch the petition, and back off when there's failures
# It also tries to resync back to checking once every 5 minutes.
# It also logs the data
# There's some hardcoded stuff. Deal with it.
#
# Accessing the json feed for this data is likely to be less disruptive.
#
import os
import requests
import sys
import time
def log(data):
f = open("/home/michael/petition_data.log","a+")
f.write(str(time.time()))
f.write("|")
f.write(str(time.asctime(time.localtime() ) ))
f.write("|")
f.write(str(data))
f.write("\n")
f.close()
def monitor_petition():
result = requests.get("https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584.json")
if result.status_code != 200:
print("FAILED", time.time(), time.asctime(time.localtime()) )
return False
os.system("clear")
data = result.json()
sigs = str(data["data"]["attributes"]["signature_count"])
log(sigs)
print("Petition - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584")
print(data["data"]["attributes"]["action"])
print()
print(data["data"]["attributes"]["background"])
print()
os.system("toilet -f mono12 " + sigs)
t = time.localtime(time.time())
print('As of %02d:%02d %s signatures' % (t.tm_hour, t.tm_min, sigs) )
os.system('espeak "As of %02d:%02d %s signatures"' % (t.tm_hour, t.tm_min, sigs) )
return True
os.system("clear")
pref_delay = 300 # five minutes
sleep_time = pref_delay # Current delay
back_off = 1.8
resync = 1.2
while True:
result = monitor_petition()
if result:
if sleep_time > pref_delay:
sleep_time = int(sleep_time/resync)
print("resync:")
if sleep_time < pref_delay:
sleep_time = pref_delay
else:
sleep_time = int(sleep_time * back_off)
print("backoff:")
print("------------------")
os.system("tail -5 /home/michael/petition_data.log")
print("------------------")
print("sleep until:", sleep_time, time.asctime(time.localtime(time.time()+sleep_time)) )
time.sleep(sleep_time)
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