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Woot.com Item of the Day on your Desktop

The first thing I check in my browser everyday is what’s for sale on woot.com. Its a site that features one deal per day and charges 5 bucks for shipping no matter what the product is.

This morning I decided to write a script to stick the deal in my conky. Having it sit on my desktop means one less thing to manually check in my browser :)

If you don’t know what conky is here’s my conky tutorial
I used the same method as I do in the rest of my scripts…set flags around our data, extract the info between the flags and shoot it out to conky.
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