GeekTool Scripts using Ruby?

[cinematicme]

I was wondering if there is a possible way to make a geeklet able to scrape my monthly aggregate data meter, since Comcast has a 250GB cap I'd like to avoid going over it. (Really close this month)

According the the FAQ Comcast has about its bandwith cap, only 1% of users go over 250GB and that general users use roughly 4-6GB a month.

I call bull on that one, especially in this day and age. Even netflix uses roughly 0.7GB per hour of video, over 1GB if its in HD, not to mention data syncing services and steaming youtube/vimeo/soundcloud then theres misc file downloads, program trials, etc etc

But yeah I only have 7GB left til i hit my cap haha.

There is a Ruby script for it

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

URL_LOGIN = 'https://login.comcast.net/login?continue=https://login.comcast.net/account'
URL_USERS = 'https://customer.comcast.com/Secure/Users.aspx'

abort "Usage: #{$0} <username> <password>" unless ARGV.length == 2

agent = Mechanize.new

agent.follow_meta_refresh = true
agent.redirect_ok = true
agent.user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6'

login_page = agent.get(URL_LOGIN)

login_form = login_page.form_with(:name => 'signin')
login_form.user = ARGV[0]
login_form.passwd = ARGV[1]

redirect_page = agent.submit(login_form)
redirect_form = redirect_page.form_with(:name => 'redir')

abort 'Error: Login failed' unless redirect_form

account_page = agent.submit(redirect_form, redirect_form.buttons.first)

users_page = agent.get(URL_USERS)
usage_text = users_page.search("div[@class='usage-graph-legend']").first.content

puts usage_text.strip

However the script has no output to desktop, is there something i need to install? (ruby 1.8?)

 

[xtacocorex]

I was wondering if there is a possible way to make a geeklet able to scrape my monthly aggregate data meter, since Comcast has a 250GB cap I'd like to avoid going over it. (Really close this month)

According the the FAQ Comcast has about its bandwith cap, only 1% of users go over 250GB and that general users use roughly 4-6GB a month.

I call bull on that one, especially in this day and age. Even netflix uses roughly 0.7GB per hour of video, over 1GB if its in HD, not to mention data syncing services and steaming youtube/vimeo/soundcloud then theres misc file downloads, program trials, etc etc

But yeah I only have 7GB left til i hit my cap haha.

There is a Ruby script for it

However the script has no output to desktop, is there something i need to install? (ruby 1.8?)

I don't use Comcast, but if you read the page you linked to, there is a note that as of 04/03/2011 this ruby script no longer works due to the Comcast page using javascript for something.

There may still be a way to do it, but I don't know how.