TextBar-Recipes

What?

Recipes for TextBar app (www.richsomerfield.com/apps).

Contributions

Please submit pull-requests so that I can add your ideas/scripts.

Latest Features (New in 1.5.174)

• ANSI escape coloring (see below for an example)
• Multi-line scripts (see below for an example)

Recipies

What is my Local IP address?

ifconfig | grep inet | grep -v inet6 | cut -d" " -f2 | tail -n1

What is my external IP address?

curl http://ipinfo.io/ip

How much disk space am I using?

df / | awk '{ print $5 }' | tail -n 1

What is the time in a different country (e.g. UK)?

UKDATE=\`TZ=GB date +"%H:%M %p"\` ; echo "UK: $UKDATE"

Is my website running?

ALIVE=\`curl -Is www.google.com | grep -q "200 OK"\` && echo "Google Alive" || echo "Google Dead"

Smiley

echo '😀'

Easiest way to see other emoji is; Open TextEdit, then "Edit > Emoji & Symbols". Then just copy and paste into TextBar.

What is my battery charge?

ioreg -n AppleSmartBattery -r | awk '$1~/Capacity/{c[$1]=$3} END{OFMT="%.2f%%"; max=c["\"MaxCapacity\""]; print (max>0? 100*c["\"CurrentCapacity\""]/max: "?")}'

Show CPU 'graph'

$HOME/scripts/CPUSpeed.sh

Download CPUSpeed.sh to your machine (to ~/scripts), and then add this to TextBar. Note: This is fairly basic. It is very slow to use top to calculate the CPU, but, I've not come across a better way yet.

Show CPU 'graph' - version 2

$HOME/scripts/cpubar.sh

Download cpubar.sh to your machine (to ~/scripts), and then add this to TextBar. Requires TextBar 1.5.174 or later.

What song (and artist) is playing in iTunes?

osascript -e 'if application "iTunes" is running then' -e 'tell application "iTunes"' -e 'if player state = playing then' -e '(get name of current track) & " – " & (get artist of current track)' -e 'else' -e 'return ""' -e 'end if' -e 'end tell' -e 'else' -e 'return ""' -e 'end if'

If iTunes is running and a song is playing, this will display the current song name and artist name.

What song (and artist) is playing in Spotify?

osascript -e 'if application "Spotify" is running then' -e 'tell application "Spotify"' -e 'if player state is playing then' -e 'return "♫ " & (artist of current track as string) & " - " & (name of current track as string)' -e 'end if' -e 'end tell' -e 'end if'

If Spotify is running and a song is playing, this will display the current song name and artist name.

Weather

curl -s 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Manchester,UK&units=metric' | python -c 'import sys, json; data=json.load(sys.stdin); print("{} : {:.1f}°C".format(data["weather"][0]["main"], data["main"]["temp"]))'

Don't refresh too frequently as this service is rate limited. You'll need to change "Manchester,UK" to your location, unless you actually live in Manchester :-).

Unicode Weather

curl weather.mar.cx/Manchester,_UK | grep "<title>" | cut -d'>' -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1

This is likely to break as it isn't entirely robust. Edit the location to get your weather.

Show (Local) Git Repo Status

$HOME/scripts/git_status.sh TextBar "$HOME/Code/TextBar"

Download git_status.sh to your machine (to ~/scripts), and then add this to TextBar. Requires TextBar 1.5.174 or later

Unread Emails in Outlook

osascript $HOME/scripts/CheckOutlookMail.scpt

Download CheckOutlookMail.scpt to your machine (to ~/scripts), and then add this to TextBar.

Next Meeting in Outlook

osascript $HOME/scripts/OutlookNextMeeting.scpt

Download OutlookNextMeeting.scpt to your machine (to ~/scripts), and then add this to TextBar. Edit OutlookNextMeeting.scpt if you want the text formatted differently. Note: This only looks 60 mins into the future. You can edit OutlookNextMeeting.scpt if you want longer.

Show the clipboard (text)

pbpaste | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//;s/[[:space:]]$//' | sed -E 's/^(.{10}).+$/\1.../'

This looks more complex than you might imagine. It; strips leading and trailing whitespace, displays only 10 chars (and if it exceeds 10 characters, it'll display the ellipsis). Obviously, if you 'Copy to Clipboard' on this, you'll get the truncated text - but, as it is already on the clipboard, you don't need to copy it :-).

Character Count of current clipboard

pbpaste | wc -c

Mouse and Keyboard Battery Status

echo "M: "`ioreg -c BNBMouseDevice | grep '"BatteryPercent" ='  |  sed 's/[^0-9]*//g'`"%"
echo "B:" `ioreg -c AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard | grep '"BatteryPercent" ='  | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g'`"%"

Add these as two separate items.

Stackoverflow Reputation

json=$(curl -s http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/22656.json) && echo $json | sed 's/,//g;s/^.*reputation...\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/'

(replace 22656 by your SO account number)

Vagrant

VBoxManage list runningvms | egrep -oh '[a-z]+_default' | awk -F'_' '{print $1}' | paste -s -d", " -

Show all currently running vagrant boxes (VirtualBox only)

Show Selected File in Finder

osascript $HOME/scripts/SelectedFinderFile.scpt

Download SelectedFinderFile.scpt to your machine (to ~/scripts), and then add this to TextBar.

ANSI Escape Colors

echo 'Normal \e[41m Other '

This is an example. Requires TextBar 1.5.174 or later

Multi-line Scripts

echo 'Hello' ; echo 'World' ; echo '!'

Requires TextBar 1.5.174 or later

HTML

From v1.3.3, TextBar can render basic HTML into your TextBar item. The text must begin with <html>, or end with </html> - must be in lowercase! - for it to be renderred as HTML.

The HTML support is fairly limited, it supports text and images. The text can be styled using embedded CSS, the images can't. Images should be resized to about 14x14.

Hello World

echo '<html><b>Hel</b>lo <i>wor</i>ld</html>'

Display Image

echo '<html><img src="http://www......."/></html>'

You can't resize the image, so make sure it is 14x14 pixels for it to show correctly.

CSS Styled Text

cat '$HOME/scripts/apple.html'

Download apple.html to your machine (to ~/scripts), and then add this to TextBar.

Is my External drive mounted (with HTML Styled Text)?

[ -d /Volumes/MyExtDrive ] && echo "<html><font face=\"helveticaneue-thin\"> MyExtDrive mounted</font></html>" || echo "<html><font face=\"helveticaneue-thin\">MyExtDrive <font color=red><b>not</b></font> mounted</font></html>"

Preferences

Requires TextBar v1.4.9 (or later)

I'm working on a UI screen for preferences, but, until then you can set the Default Font/Font-Size, and Shell using defaults write

How to set the default Font

defaults write com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultFontName -string "HelveticaNeue-UltraLight"

Requires a restart of the TextBar app

How to set the default Font-Size

defaults write com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultFontSize -int 10

Requires a restart of the TextBar app

How to set the default Shell

defaults write com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultShell -string "/bin/sh"

Requires a restart of the TextBar app

How to set the default Max Width of textbar items

defaults write com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultMaxWidth -int 100

Requires TextBar v1.4.47 (or later)

Requires a restart of the TextBar app

Note: This is in points. Use '0' for unlimited.

Note: This only works on OS X Yosemite (10.10)

How to use your own images

defaults write com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultAdditionalImagesFolder -string "/Users/rich/images/png"

Requires TextBar v1.6.1 (or later)

Requires a restart of the TextBar app to read the folder

Note: Only loads 'png' files

Note: This will be moving to a new preferences UI when I get time to implement it

To remove use:

defaults delete com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultAdditionalImagesFolder

How to set the default TextBar image size

defaults write com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultImageSize -int 18

Requires TextBar v1.6.19 (or later)

Requires a restart of the TextBar app

How to set the default TextBar preferences image size

defaults write com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultMenuImageSize -int 18

Requires TextBar v1.6.19 (or later)

Requires a restart of the TextBar app

How to set the default TextBar notification image size

defaults write com.RichSomerfield.TextBar DefaultNotificationImageSize -int 18

Requires TextBar v1.6.19 (or later)

Requires a restart of the TextBar app