Soupson Time

Few web scrapers which print menu for the current week of Marche Soupson.

Bash

Simple one-liner using curl, grep and tr:

$ soupson.sh
Monday: Root Vegetable Medley
Tuesday: Tomato, Kale and Lentil
Wednesday: Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato
Thursday: Green Vegetable Sou
Friday: Mushroom, Wild Rice and Leek

Python

You need to have requests and Beautiful soup installed:

$ apt-get install python-requests
$ apt-get install python-bs4

The menu could be printed to the output:

$ python soupson.py
Monday: Beet and Fennel
Tuesday: Sweet Potato and Lentil
Wednesday: Classic Split Pea Soup
Thursday: Green Vegetable Medley
Friday: HARIRA!

or to the file by providing file name as an option:

$ python soupson.py menu
$ cat menu
Monday: Beet and Fennel
Tuesday: Sweet Potato and Lentil
Wednesday: Classic Split Pea Soup
Thursday: Green Vegetable Medley
Friday: HARIRA!

Node

Install dependencies and then just run it:

$ npm install
$ node soupson.js
.-----------------------------------------.
| Weekly menu from October 3 to October 7 |
|-----------------------------------------|
| Monday    | Beet and Fennel             |
| Tuesday   | Sweet Potato and Lentil     |
| Wednesday | Classic Split Pea Soup      |
| Thursday  | Green Vegetable Medley      |
| Friday    | HARIRA!                     |
'-----------------------------------------'

Ruby

$ gem install nokogiri
$ ruby soupson.rb
Monday: Beet and Squash
Tuesday: Sweet Potato and Red Lentil
Wednesday: Potato and Turnip
Thursday: Tomato, Lentil and Spinach
Friday: Green Vegetable Medley

Conky integration

One of these scripts could be easily used in conky widget:

...
${execpi 3600 TDY=`date '+%A'`; cat /home/usrnm/.conky/menu | sed s/$TDY/'${color 46B5D3}'"$TDY"'$color'/}
...