Reddit user information check script

#!/bin/bash
# A shell script that checks a given user's
#  link and comment karma. Also checks
#  whether or not the user has new messages
#  and displays an image when they do

# http://www.redditstatic.com/cake.png
# http://www.redditstatic.com/mail.png

# initialize karma to zero
L_KARMA=0
C_KARMA=0

# set username to null
U_NAME="null"

# set mail to false
MAIL="false"

# sets the day created to 0 (don't know
#  why. Just cause.
CREATED=0

getInfo() {
 # just so the output isn't shown
 tempStore=`curl -s -b $HOME/.redditCookie http://www.reddit.com/api/me.json | grep '"has_mail": true'`

 # checks to see if grep exited with an error code. If it didn't
 #  then the user has no mail.
 if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
     MAIL="true"
 else
     MAIL="false"
 fi

 # gets the json file, then gets the username and then takes out
 #  all of the non usable characters that exist (quotes, etc)
 U_NAME=` curl -s -b $HOME/.redditCookie http://www.reddit.com/api/me.json | sed 's/:/\n/g' | grep -A 1 '"name"' | tail -n 1 | sed 's/created//g' | sed 's/[^0-9a-zA-Z]*//g'`

 # gets the json file, and gets the values for karma, then sets
 #  them to the vars.
 L_KARMA=`curl -s -b $HOME/.redditCookie http://www.reddit.com/api/me.json | sed 's/:/\n/g' | grep -A 1 '"link_karma"' | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g' | tail -n 1`
 C_KARMA=`curl -s -b $HOME/.redditCookie http://www.reddit.com/api/me.json | sed 's/:/\n/g' | grep -A 1 '"comment_karma"' | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g' | tail -n 1`

 # gets the time your account was created, and converts it from
 #  Unix time to 'real' time and sets it up to compare to the
 #  current time
 CREATED=`curl -s -b $HOME/.redditCookie http://www.reddit.com/api/me.json | sed 's/:/\n/g' | grep -A 1 '"created"' | sed 's/,//g' | tail -n 1 | sed 's/[^0-9.]//g'`
 CREATED_MONTH=`date -d @$CREATED | sed 's/  /\n/g' | sed 's/ /\n/g' | head -n 2 | tail -n 1`
 CREATED_MONTH="$CREATED_MONTH `date -d @$CREATED | sed 's/  /\n/g' | sed 's/ /\n/g' | head -n 3 | tail -n 1`"
 CREATED_YEAR=`date -d @$CREATED | sed 's/  /\n/g' | sed 's/ /\n/g' | tail -n 1 | bc`

 # gets the current month and year, converting them into the right
 #  formats to compare against the created values
 cakeDay_month=`date | sed 's/  /\n/g' | sed 's/ /\n/g' | head -n 3 | tail -n 2`
 cakeDay_year=`date | sed 's/  /\n/g' | sed 's/ /\n/g' | tail -n 1 | bc`



 case $1 in


    # prints the console version of the output (for terminal)
     --con)
      # if it has been a year since the creation of your reddit account
      #  it wishes you a happy cake day
      if [ "$CREATED_MONTH" == "$cakeDay_month" ] ; then
         if [ "`echo "scale=2; $cakeDay_year.00 - $CREATED_YEAR.00" | bc | sed 's/[^.00]//g'`" == ".00" ] ; then
             echo "Happy CakeDay!"
         fi
      fi

      # prints out the user's link and comment karma
      echo "Link Karma: $L_KARMA"
      echo "Comment Karma: $C_KARMA"

      # if you have new mail, a message is printed out saying
      #  you have mail
      if [ "$MAIL" != "false" ] ; then
          echo "You have unread messages."
      fi;;




     # prints the XML version of the output (for the panel)
     *)
          # if it has been a year since the creation of your reddit account
          #  a cake image is shown next to your account name in the panel.
         if [ "$CREATED_MONTH" == "$cakeDay_month" ] ; then
             if [ "`echo "scale=2; $cakeDay_year.00 - $CREATED_YEAR.00" | bc | sed 's/[^.00]//g'`" == ".00" ] ; then
                 echo "<img>$HOME/.redditCakeDay.png</img>"
             fi
         fi

         # logged in user, tooltip is karma values. Karma formatting in code
     #  is bad, but makes the newline appear in the tooltip (which is
         #  what I wanted)
         echo "<txt>$U_NAME</txt>"
         echo "<tool>Link Karma: $L_KARMA
Comment Karma: $C_KARMA</tool>"

         # if mail is not false, also display the new mail image and makes
         #  the image clickable. Once clicked, the image takes the user to
         #  the url of unread messages (assumes the user is logged in).
         if [ "$MAIL" != "false" ] ; then

          if [ "$MAIL" != "" ] ; then
          echo "<img>$HOME/.redditNewMail.png</img>"
          echo "<click>/usr/bin/exo-open http://www.reddit.com/message/unread</click>"
          fi

          fi;;

esac

} # getInfo func

# script to get the login cookie for reddit
scriptSetup() {

# checks to see if the cookie exists
 if [ ! -f  $HOME/.redditCookie ] ; then

     # gets the user's username and password
     echo "What is your reddit username?"
     read user
     echo "What is your account password?"
     read pass

     # no errors yet
     ERRORS="false"

     # uses the user inputted name and password to
     #  retrieve a login cookie. Output is piped to
     #  a temp file
     curl -s -d user=$user -d passwd=$pass -c $HOME/.redditCookie http://www.reddit.com/api/login > /tmp/redditScript

     # checks the temp file for any error messages
     temp=`grep error /tmp/redditScript`

     # if there were any, then the temp file is moved
     #  to the home directory for the user to read.
     #  If there were none then the temp file is
     #  removed
     if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
         rm $HOME/.redditCookie
         ERRORS="true"
     mv /tmp/redditScript $HOME/RedditScriptErrors.log
     else
     rm /tmp/redditScript
     fi

 else
     echo "Set up has already been run!"
 fi

 # if the .png images for cakeday and mail are there
 #  then don't downoad them, otherwise get them.
 if [ ! -f $HOME/.redditNewMail.png ] ; then
     curl -s http://www.redditstatic.com/mail.png > $HOME/.redditNewMail.png
 fi

 if [ ! -f $HOME/.redditCakeDay.png ] ; then
     curl -s http://www.redditstatic.com/cake.png > $HOME/.redditCakeDay.png
 fi

 # if there were any errors then make sure the user knows
 #  otherwise tell them how to add it to an XFCE gen-mod panel
 if [ "$ERRORS" == "true" ] ; then
     echo ""
     echo "Setup finished with errors. Check the error log in your home directory for more details, then re-run this script with --setup option."
 else
     echo ""
     echo "Setup finished! To run as a XFCE Panel General module plug-in, run with --genmod option."
 fi

} # scriptSetup

# to test if there is an internet connection
ping -c 1 google.com > /dev/null


if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then

    case $1 in
    --genmon)
        getInfo;;
    --setup)
        scriptSetup;;
    *)
        getInfo --con;;
    esac
else
    case $1 in
    --genmon)
        echo "<txt>NETWORK ERROR</txt>";;
    --setup)
        echo "Network Connection";;
    *)
        echo "Network Error";;
    esac
fi