A super quick & dirty shell script to monitor the status of the Apple Online Store for any country

apple_store_check.sh

#!/bin/bash

# A super quick & dirty shell script to monitor the status of the Apple Online Store for any country.
# It does so by checking the HTTP status code returned upon requesting the main page (503 when it's down).
# When the store comes back online you get alerted through the speaker, in case you were sleeping :)
# You could probably easily change that to send an email or whatever instead.

APPLE_STORE_URL=http://store.apple.com/nl/buy-iphone/iphone6
STATUS=503

while [ $STATUS != 200 ]
do
    echo "`date` Checking..."
    STATUS=`curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '%{http_code}\n' $APPLE_STORE_URL`

    if [ $STATUS == 503 ]; then
        echo "Nope, still closed!"
        sleep 10;
    else
        echo "Status: $STATUS"
    fi

done

echo "Apple Store is OPEN!"


# it's late and I'm probably sleeping... wake myself up!
say Hey Wake Up, Hey Wake Up, Hey Wake Up, Hey Wake Up, Hey Wake Up,