Twidge, twitter, mrtg and a little shell scripting to graph workouts

Here’s a script using Twidge, twitter, mrtg and a little shell scripting to graph workouts.

Twidge, twitter, mrtg and a little shell scripting to graph my workouts

I decided to start working out.  Ok, you can get off the floor now. I am working out. I have a really cool, entry level elliptical, the Schwinn 420.

The only problem with the Schwinn 420 is that it’s electronic console does NOT connect to the web. I decided to combat this by tweeting my workouts and having my linux box grab that data and dump it into some mrtg graphs.

First thing I did was setup a new twitter account (@johnsworkout) and follow it with my @beck_on_tech account.

Then I setup twidge, the command line twitter client, on my linux box using my @johnsworkout account.

When I workout I send a message to @johnsworkout with my weight, time on elliptical, distance and calories burned or wtdc as I remember it.

I run a script from cron every 2 hours.

# crontab -l
15 */2 * * *  /home/jbeck/scripts/workout-tweet.sh

# vi worktout-tweet.sh

#!/bin/sh
TWEETDATA=`twidge lsrecent -su |grep -i johnsworkout`
if [ “$TWEETDATA” != “” ]; then
    echo $TWEETDATA > /tmp/workout.txt
else
    exit 1
fi

As always, if you’ve got recommendations or a better way, I’m all ears

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