Another post from the "Useless Script" department
A while back I wrote some nodejs that mish-moshed email and web 2.0 long-poll action into a very ugly, but fairly up-to-date showing of debian changes. That is over on my server here.
The code's fairly simple, so I also wrote a python consumer here.
Since it's so simple, I've pasted it below, too.
Feel free to use (but please not abuse) my server :)
#!/usr/bin/env python import time import urllib import json service = "http://pault.ag:8080/tail" lastts = 0 def loop(): global lastts while True: f = urllib.urlopen("%s?since=%s" % (service, str(lastts))) msgs = json.loads(f.read()) for x in msgs['messages']: print x['text'] if lastts < x['timestamp']: lastts = x['timestamp'] loop()