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This is a script for retrieving the songs played by Absolute Radio from their main website. It writes the songs out to a log and opens up a browser with an alert if they play the same song twice. I wrote this to test their 'no repeat guarantee'. They weren't lying!
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| require 'rubygems' | |
| require 'nokogiri' | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| require 'date' | |
| require 'fileutils' | |
| def show_alert | |
| File.open('alert_file.html', 'w') do |file| | |
| file.puts "<html><head><title>PAY ATTENTION</title></head><body onload=\"alert('They played the same song! Check the logs!');\"></body></html>" | |
| end | |
| system("open -a safari alert_file.html") | |
| end | |
| def check_currently_playing | |
| puts "Checking..." | |
| filename = Time.now.strftime("%Y_%m_%d") + "_absolute_radio.log" | |
| page = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://absoluteradio.co.uk/absolute-radio/")) | |
| currently_playing = page.css('#flexslide-item-0 a').first['title'].strip | |
| if File.file?(filename) == false | |
| FileUtils.touch(filename) | |
| end | |
| most_recent = IO.readlines(filename)[-1].strip | |
| puts "Most recent: #{most_recent}" | |
| unless most_recent == currently_playing | |
| File.open(filename, 'a+') do |file| | |
| # search for this track in the file already | |
| file.any? do |line| | |
| if line.strip == currently_playing | |
| puts "FOUND THE SAME TRACK!" | |
| puts "No repeat violated." | |
| show_alert | |
| end | |
| end | |
| # add this track to the file | |
| file.puts currently_playing | |
| puts "Added #{currently_playing} to file." | |
| end | |
| else | |
| puts "Most recent matches currently playing." | |
| puts "They wouldn't play the same song twice in a row!" | |
| end | |
| end | |
| while true | |
| check_currently_playing | |
| puts "Will check again in 60 seconds at #{Time.now + 60}." | |
| sleep 60 | |
| end |
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