Small growl+pushalot notifier for detecting when a user on reedit posts an Hearthstone giveaway thread. Can apply to any thread if you change URL to check and keywords to detect. Works only on OSX.

GiveAwayNotifier.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import feedparser
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.ERROR)
import gntp.notifier
import time
from httplib import HTTPSConnection
from urllib import urlencode

def Honk(title, body):

	http_handler = HTTPSConnection("pushalot.com")

	data = {'AuthorizationToken': "pushalot_token",
	        'Title': title,
	        'Body': body }

	http_handler.request("POST", "/api/sendmessage", headers = {'Content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}, body = urlencode(data) )

	growl.notify(
	    noteType = "New Messages",
	    title = title,
	    description = body,
	    sticky = False,
	    priority = 1,
	)

growl = gntp.notifier.GrowlNotifier(
    applicationName = "My Application Name",
    notifications = ["New Updates","New Messages"],
    defaultNotifications = ["New Messages"],
    hostname = "localhost", # Defaults to localhost
    password = "" # Defaults to a blank password
)
growl.register()

honked = {}

while True:
	d = feedparser.parse('http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/new/.rss')

	title = d.entries[0].title
	link = d.entries[0].link

	hotWords = [ "give", "away", "take", "key", "free", "beta" ]

	found = [i for i, hotWord in enumerate(hotWords) if hotWord.lower() in title.lower()]

	if found and not honked.get(title):
		Honk(title, link)
		honked[title] = True
		print title
	else:
		print "»"
	
	time.sleep(15)