TeamTrees counter

[msvelev]

Hi!

I thought someone besides me might be interested in getting a TeamTrees counter set up.

 

1) I created a simple shell script which retrieves the number of trees which will be planted so far:

curl -s https://teamtrees.org/ | grep id=\"totalTrees\" |egrep -o '[[:digit:]]+' | head -1

With this you can choose your way to display it, e.g. a digital screen, a notification, an widget or whatever.. I chose a MacOS notification.

 

To do this I put the script in MacOS automator application like so:

Changed the icon to a random tree found in google.

And saved it to the Applications folder.

 

2) Then to run hourly I added a plist file to ~/Library/LaunchAgents named org.teamtrees.plist

With the following content: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>org.teamtrees</string>

  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/bin/open</string>
<string>-W</string>
<string>/Applications/Trees.app</string>
</array>

  <key>StartInterval</key>
  <integer>3600</integer>

  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

 

3) Loaded it using:

launchctl load org.teamtrees

 

And now I get a notification like this one hourly: 

 

GL HF!

[mcilie]

Nice, this looks really neat. Personally, Im not too familiar with macOS automator, so I'd use the terminal command to display applications (cant remember it off the top of my head, but you could find it with a google search)