Today DigitalOcean.com will be reaching a million droplets created. The user who spins the millionth droplet and sends a tweet will receive 10.000$ in hosting credit!

But I don’t want to waste time refreshing the page, nor come back and see the million has been reached. So I made a small script with node.js to email me every 1000 droplets =)

This is the basic scraping part of the script, just for fun haha

var request = require('request');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');

var url = 'https://digitalocean.com/';
request(url, function(err, resp, body) {
        if (err)
                throw err;
        $ = cheerio.load(body);
        //web scraping
        var digits = [];
        var digit;
        $('.servers_launched .count').each(function() {
                digit = parseInt($(this).html(),10);
                if (!isNaN(digit)) {
                        digits.push(digit);
                }
        });
        //now we have the array of digits, translate it into a number
        var droplets = 0;
        for (var i=0; i<digits.length; i++) {
                droplets += (digits[i]*Math.pow(10,digits.length-1-i));
        }
        console.log(droplets);
});

Enjoy, and good luck!

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