Sometimes it's good to be able to code :)
This ruby script checks the "when are we going to ship your laptop"; part of the Dell Homepage (Germany) for changes and notifies you via jabber when a change occured.
No exception handling —> if anything breaks, it's gone :P

require ‘rubygems'

require ‘open-uri'

require ‘hpricot'

require ‘xmpp4r'





#CONFIG

bestellnummer = "123456789";

kundennummer = "DE1234567";

bot_jabberid = "[email protected]";

bot_jabberpass = "secret_bot_password";

user_jabberid = "[email protected]";

#END OF CONFIG




myurl = "http://support.euro.dell.com/support/order/emea/OrderStatus.aspx?c=de&l=de&s=gen&on=#{bestellnummer}&cn=#{kundennummer}";

current_status = ""

while true




doc = Hpricot(open(myurl))
(doc/"a";).each do |a|
if a.to_s.include?("order_status";)
if current_status != a.inner_text
puts "checking: NEW STATUS: " + a.inner_text
client = Jabber::Client.new(Jabber::JID.new(bot_jabberid + "/dellbot";))
client.connect
puts "jabber: connected";
client.auth(bot_jabberpass)
puts "jabber: authenticated";
presence = Jabber::Presence.new
presence.set_show(:chat)
presence.set_status(‘notifying')
presence.set_priority(-1) #we don't want to be top priority… the message might get to the bot
client.send(presence)
puts "jabber: set presence";
sleep 1
msg = Jabber::Message::new(user_jabberid, "Dell Status changed!\nNew Status: #{a.inner_text}";)
msg.type=:chat
client.send(msg)
puts "jabber: sent message";
client.close!
puts "jabber: disconnected";




ok, we sent that notification, so we can change our current status




current_status = a.inner_text
else
puts "checking: nothing new to see here, keep going!";
end
end
end
sleep 600




end