heist_parse.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Grab the width of the macheist bar.
# Run using:
#   while true; do sleep 60; python heist_parse.py >> heist_countdown; done 

import urllib2
import re
import time

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

url='http://mainframe.macheist.com/'

page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
page = ''.join(page.readlines())
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)

desc = soup.fetch('div',{'class':'progress'})[0]['style']
print time.time(), '\t', re.search(r'^width: (.*)px$', desc).group(1)