gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby 

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'optparse'
 
class BagOfCrap
  
  def initialize(args)
    @url = "http://www.woot.com"
    @standard_sleep = 15
    @sold_out_sleep = 3
    @break_loop = false
    trap('INT') { @break_loop = true }
    trap('TERM') { @break_loop = true }
    
    @options = {}
    opts = OptionParser.new 
    opts.on('-T', '--talk') { @options[:talk] = true }
    opts.on('-V', '--verbose') { @options[:verbose] = true }
    
    opts.parse!(args) rescue return false
  end
  
  def run
    while(true) do
      break if @break_loop
      doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(@url).read)
      current_item = doc.at('h2').inner_html
      last_item ||= nil

      if current_item != last_item
        puts "#{Time.now.strftime('%T')} - #{current_item}" if @options[:verbose]
        # system "say \"#{current_item}\"" if @options[:talk]
      end

      if doc.at('h2').to_s =~ /Random Crap/
        system "epiphany http://www.woot.com"
        break
      elsif doc.css('a.soldOut').length > 0
        sleep @sold_out_sleep
      else
        sleep @standard_sleep
      end
      last_item = current_item
      break if @break_loop
    end
  end
  
end

BagOfCrap.new(ARGV).run