Script to display/email btcguild bitcoin miner progress on current round, and detect any idle workers

btcguild.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# https://gist.github.com/gists/1007083
# Donate: 1BdWJEUCkm6on231iX2ThXZHXZDfQny69R
from __future__ import division
import json
import urllib2
from smtplib import SMTP
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from cStringIO import StringIO
from pprint import pprint


API_URL = "http://www.btcguild.com/api.php?api_key=%s"
ALERT_EMAIL = "REPLACE"
IDLE_THRESHOLD = 600 # seconds
EMAIL_INFO = {
	"host" : "smtp.gmail.com",
	"port" : 587,
	"user" : "REPLACE",
	"passwd" : "REPLACE"
}

def send_email(email):
	msg = MIMEText(email["body"])
	msg["Subject"], msg["From"], msg["To"] = email["subject"], email["from"], email["to"] 
	server = SMTP(EMAIL_INFO["host"], EMAIL_INFO["port"]) 
	server.ehlo()
	server.starttls()
	server.ehlo()
	server.login(EMAIL_INFO["user"], EMAIL_INFO["passwd"])
	server.sendmail(email["from"], [email["to"]], msg.as_string())
	server.close()

def main(args):
	if len(args) < 2:
		print "usage: %s api_key" % args[0]
		return
	data = urllib2.urlopen(API_URL % args[1]).read()
	if data[0] != '{':
		print "ERROR", data
		return
	stdout = sys.stdout
	sys.stdout = StringIO()
	p = json.loads(data)
	pool = p["pool"]
	total = { "hash_rate" : 0, "round_shares" : 0 }
	idles = []
	for w in p["workers"].values():
		last = map(int, w["last_share"].split(":"))
		idle = last[0] * 3600 + last[1] * 60 + last[2]
		total["hash_rate"] += w["hash_rate"]
		total["round_shares"] += w["round_shares"]
		percent_shares = 100*w["round_shares"]/pool["round_shares"]
		print w["worker_name"], w["hash_rate"], "%.4f%%"%percent_shares, idle, "seconds"
		if idle > IDLE_THRESHOLD:
			idles.append((w["worker_name"], idle))
	percent_shares = 100*total["round_shares"]/pool["round_shares"]
	print "total", total["hash_rate"], "%.4f%%"%percent_shares
	if idles:
		pprint(idles)
	output = sys.stdout.getvalue()
	sys.stdout = stdout
	print output
	#send_email({
	#	"to" : ALERT_EMAIL,
	#	"from" : EMAIL_INFO["user"],
	#	"subject" : "btcguild report",
	#	"body" : output,
	#})

if __name__ == '__main__':
	import sys
	main(sys.argv)