Get notified when the game status changes on SaskatoonUltimate.org

scape.js

// install some dependencies
// npm install jsdom request growler
// 
// run: node scrape.js
var jsdom = require('jsdom'),
    request = require('request'),
    growler = require('growler');

console.log('init');

var status = false;

var myApp = new growler.GrowlApplication('Ultimate Scraper');
myApp.setNotifications({
    'Changed': {}
});

myApp.register();

function checkit() {
  console.log('requesting');
  request({uri: 'http://saskatoonultimate.org/'}, function(err,response,body) {
    console.log('request got');
    var self = this;
    self.items = new Array();

    if ( err && response.statusCode !== 200 ) { console.log("Request error"); }

    jsdom.env({
      html: body,
      scripts: ['http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.min.js']
    }, function(err, window) {
      var $ = window.jQuery;
      var new_status = $('#block-block-5').find('p').html();
      if ( status == false ) {
        status = new_status;
        console.log('first status: ' + status);
        myApp.sendNotification('Changed', {
            title: 'Ultimate Scaper Started',
            text: status,
            sticky: true
        });

      } else if ( status != new_status ) {
        console.log('changed');
        myApp.sendNotification('Changed', {
            title: 'Ultimate Scaper Change',
            text: status,
            sticky: true
        });
      }
    });
  });
  setTimeout(checkit, 30000 );
}

checkit();