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willxtreme

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[SOLVED] Arch Linux's ranking on distrowatch via Conky

This is more a request

I'd like to have a python script that simply returns Arch Linux ranking on distrowatch.com to display on conky

When I check the code of distrowatch the part of the code concercing Arch's ranking is:
        <tr>
          <th class="News">9</th>
          <td class="News"><a href="arch">Arch</a></td>

          <td class="News" style="text-align: right" title="Yesterday: 794">796<img src="images/other/aup.png" alt=">" title="Yesterday: 794"></td>
        </tr>

Last edited by willxtreme (2010-01-14 15:54:13)

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willxtreme

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux's ranking on distrowatch via Conky

Okay solved :D:D
in 3 steps

1) Download Beautiful Soup for Python & copy BeautifulSoup.py to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages

2) Create ranking.py containing:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

address = "http://distrowatch.com/"
try:
    website = urllib2.urlopen(address)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(''.join(website))
    rankings = soup.find(text= "Page Hit Ranking").findParent("table").find(text="Arch").findParent("tr").find("th").string
    print rankings
except:
    print "N/A"

3) Add in .conkyrc

Distrowatch's Ranking: $alignr ${execi 7200 python ~/.scripts/ranking.py}

credits to iggykoopa

Last edited by willxtreme (2010-01-14 16:08:30)

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wbeyda

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux's ranking on distrowatch via Conky

could we sticky this for the day? pleae mods I want to try this as soon as I get home. but stuck at work on windoze machines :-/

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux's ranking on distrowatch via Conky

I'm sure you have email...

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willxtreme

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux's ranking on distrowatch via Conky

And it's added in the wiki

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wbeyda

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux's ranking on distrowatch via Conky

And it's added in the wiki

NICE!