Conky Support Scripts: Show us your "Scripts" & Screenshots of what they do.

[Bruce M.]

OK, the mega thread Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots has been hijacked by Conky Calendars, to the point that people asking for help with other aspects of conky are having their requests for help buried in an avalanche.

So today I though why not a Conky "Script" Support Thread? Obviously if you are showing your Conky screenshot and the files that did it the scripts will accompany it on the other thread.

But if you see a "script", bash, python, perl - who cares, that you can "touch up" copy it here and have at it with various other "script junkies" (meant in a good way), after all we all win! Or if you have a NEW script for conky you are working on bring it here.

I ask that each post here has a link to Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots if the script came from there or when the "CCCC" script writers agree that it's done as best it can be, a post on the mega thread explaining what the script does with a screenie and a link to the post here to get the script.

What do you think?
Have a nice day.
Bruce

[dk75]

There could be a BASH script yes?

[Bruce M.]

There could be a BASH script yes?

Absolutely for example:

${execpi 8 hddtemp /dev/sda | cut --characters 34-37 | xargs ~/Conky/scripts/ColorTempHDD.sh}

calls the bash script: ColorTempHDD.sh a modified version of Crinos'512's colorize.sh;

#!/bin/bash
# colorize.sh
# by: Crinos512

COOL=45
WARM=56

if [[ $1 < $COOL ]]
   then echo "\${color7}"$1    # COOL
elif [[ $1 > $WARM ]]
   then echo "\${color9}"$1    # HOT
else echo "\${color8}"$1       # WARM
fi

exit 0

CHIMO!
Bruce

[guriinii]

What a fantastic idea! Bruce you legend.

Right... curl and rss feeds, can somebody give some me some guides, tips or help?

Thanks in advance

[dk75]

why... did it need to be curl?

sudo apt-get install python-feedparser

there is web page with all available commands: Universal Feedparser

and there is my example code

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
##############################################################
# parse RSS feed
# RSS.py rss.url no._of_entry_to_parse
##############################################################

import sys
import feedparser
d = feedparser.parse(sys.argv[1])
print
print d.entries[int(sys.argv[2])].title.replace('<br />' , '\n').replace('<p>' , '\n\t').replace('</p>' , '\n')
print
print d.entries[int(sys.argv[2])].description.replace('<br />' , '\n').replace('<p>' , '\n\t').replace('</p>' , '\n')
print
e = d.entries[int(sys.argv[2])]
print ('Link: '),e.link
print
print d.entries[int(sys.argv[2])].category
print
print d.entries[int(sys.argv[2])].status
print
quit()

[mobilediesel]

Excellent idea! I wish I'd thought of it!
as a reply to one of your posts in the conky mega-thread:

BASH Beginner's Guide
and
Writing Shell Scripts

and this script I'll post here isn't even mine:
conky-rss.sh

#!/bin/bash
# RSS Display Script by Bill Woodford (admin@sdesign.us) v1.0
#
#RSS Setup - Don't change unless you want these values hard-coded!
uri=$1                                                  #URI of RSS Feed
lines=$2                                                #Number of headlines
titlenum=$3                                             #Number of extra titles
#Script start
#Require a uri, as a minimum
if [[ "$uri" == "" ]]; then
        echo "No URI specified, cannot continue!" >&2
        echo "Please read script for more information" >&2
else
        #Set defaults if none specified
        if [[ $lines == "" ]]; then lines=25 ; fi
        if [[ $titlenum == "" ]]; then titlenum=2 ; fi

        #The actual work
        curl -A "Mozilla/5.0" -s --connect-timeout 30 $uri |\
        grep -io "<title>[^<]*"|\
        sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//'|\
        head -n $(($lines + $titlenum)) |\
        tail -n $(($lines))
fi

[Bruce M.]

Excellent idea! I wish I'd thought of it!

OK you though of it, no biggie.

THANK YOU for the links.

CHIMO!
Bruce

[guriinii]

why... did it need to be curl?

It doesn't, that is all I knew really.
I'll give it a go
Cheers.

[mobilediesel]

Here's a fairly simple script to display a normal calendar with conky. It shows the last few days of the previous month as well as the first few days of the next month.

You can have the month/year line a different color and the days of the week line a different color.

#!/bin/bash
date=$(date '+%F')
DAY=${date:8:2}
DAY=${DAY/#0/}
cal=$(cal)
prev=$(cal $(date '+%-m %Y' --date="${date:0:7}-15 -1 month")|sed 's/ *$//;/^$/d'|tail -1)
next=$(cal $(date '+%-m %Y' --date="${date:0:7}-15 +1 month")|sed '/^ *&/d;1,2d;s/^ *//'|head -1)
if [ ${#next} == 19 ] ;then next=$'\n'"\${color9} $next"
else next="\${color9}  $next"
fi
if [ ${#prev} == 20 ]; then prev="$prev"$'\n '
else prev="$prev  "
fi
echo -e "\${color7}${cal:0:21}\${color4}${cal:21:21}\${color9}$prev\${color}$(echo "${cal:42}" | sed -e '/^ *$/d' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/$/ /' -e 's/^ *1 / 1 /' -e /" $DAY "/s/" $DAY "/" "'${color3}'"$DAY"'${color}'" "/ -e 's/^ //' -e 's/ *$//')$next"

screenshot2009-12-20T16:13:48-0500.png

I did it this way to limit the number of calls to cal as I was calling it a few times. Now it's just 3.

[guriinii]

can I put an image on my conky from an RSS feed? For example: http://xkcd.com/