Poll CS:GO blog for new blog posts.

csgoblog.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import time
import requests
import smtplib
import email.message
from lxml import html

SMTP_HOST = 'localhost'
SMTP_PORT = 25
SMTP_FROM = 'lol@valve.com'
SMTP_TO = SMTP_FROM

def sendinfo(title, url):
    mail = email.message.EmailMessage()
    mail.set_content('New CS:GO Blogpost: ' + url)
    mail['Subject'] = title
    mail['From'] = SMTP_FROM
    mail['To'] = SMTP_TO
    smtp = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_HOST, SMTP_PORT)
    smtp.send_message(mail)
    smtp.quit()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    res = requests.get('http://blog.counter-strike.net/')
    doc = html.fromstring(res.text)
    for i, container in enumerate(doc.find_class('inner_post')):
        post = container.getchildren()[0]
        title = post.getchildren()[0].text_content()
        url = post.getchildren()[0].get("href")
        if i is 0 and title != 'Blue Skies':
            print('[' + time.asctime() + '] NEW BLOGPOST RELEASED:', title)
            sendinfo(title, url)
            sys.exit(0)
    print('[' + time.asctime() + '] Nothing changed, yet...')
    sys.exit(1)

do_bash

while true;do /tmp/csgoblog.py && break;sleep 600;done

do_crontab

*/10 * * * * /tmp/csgoblog.py | tee -a /tmp/csgoblog.log