This is a command-line utility which monitors Blizzard's Ribbit server, primarily to store product configuration updates in a Git repository.
This is run by the author on a server to power other tools, such as this Ribbit repository, a web-based Ribbit mirror, a live Ribbit updates tool, Bluesky Ribbit bots, and more.
Clone this repository.
Create a directory there called current. If you will want to push Ribbit updates to a git repository, initialize a repo there.
Run ./go.sh. This will populate the directory structure within current to match the products in the Ribbit summary, and make sure everything is working.
To keep things updated, run this script in a cron every 5 minutes:
*/5 * * * * ribbit.sh/go.sh cron >> ribbit.sh/run.log 2>&1
This is still a little bit hacky. I should probably set it up to be a systemd daemon instead of a repetitive cron, do something better with run.pid, etc. It ain't pretty, but it works.
This project was possible only by the documentation at the WoWDev wiki. Thanks to those who contribute there!
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