Sanity check of video.ft.com

ft-video-monitoring.rb

require 'net/http'

def fetch(uri_str, limit = 10)  
  raise ArgumentError, 'too many HTTP redirects' if limit == 0
  response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI(uri_str))
  case response
  when Net::HTTPSuccess then
		response.body()[/<span class="video\-length">\s*(\d+:\d+ min)\s*<\/span>/]
	when Net::HTTPRedirection then
		location = response['location']
		warn "redirected to #{location}"
		fetch(location, limit - 1)
	else
		response.value
  end
end

print fetch('http://video.ft.com')