[CentralOH] not as sexy as efloehr's cloud graphing....

[Eric Miller]

...but, still chuckleworthy I hope.

http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/31hk2g/realtime_graph_to_predict_the_ultimate_heat_death/

Please excuse the lazy error handling, lack of comments, and the obvious
need to make functions in at least two places.  I was just screwing
around...

from lxml import htmlimport requestsimport timeimport librato

user = 'yourLibratoEmail at gmail.com'
token = 'your_____API____________key'
api = librato.connect(user, token)
while True:
        try:
                page = requests.get('http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton')
                tree = html.fromstring(page.text)
                participants =
tree.xpath('//span[@class="thebutton-participants"]/text()')
                numbers = tree.xpath('//span[@class="number"]/text()')

                page = requests.get('http://www.reddit.com/about')
                tree = html.fromstring(page.text)
                dailyStats = tree.xpath('//div[@class="value"]/text()')

                pressers = participants[0]
                subcribers = numbers[0]
                activeViewers = numbers[1]
                dailyRedditUsers = dailyStats[4]

                pressers = pressers.replace(',', '')
                subcribers = subcribers.replace(',', '')
                activeViewers = activeViewers.replace(',', '')
                dailyRedditUsers = dailyRedditUsers.replace(',', '')

                api.submit("pressers", pressers)
                api.submit("subcribers", subcribers)
                api.submit("activeViewers", activeViewers)
                api.submit("dailyRedditUsers", dailyRedditUsers)

                print pressers
                print subcribers
                print activeViewers
                print dailyRedditUsers

                time.sleep(5)
        except:
                continue
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