README.md

couchdb active tasks desktop widget with geektool

• for the "Success" image you might want to use couchdb logo
• and for the "Failure" image an transparent gif

couchdb-geektool.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z $1 ]; then
	echo "usage: $0 NAME URL [ NAME URL ... ]"
	echo " e.g.: $0 LOCAL http://127.0.0.1:5984"
	echo "   or: $0 DB01 http://user:pass@db01 DB02 http://user:pass@db01"
	exit 1
fi

(
	while [ ! -z $1 ]; do
		NAME=$1; shift
		URL=$1; shift
		curl -qs "$URL/_active_tasks" | python -mjson.tool | awk "{print \"$NAME: \"\$0}"
	done
) | sed -e 's/  */ /g' -e 's/[",]//g' | grep -E 'status|task'

couchdb.png

geektool-couchdb.png