#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib
import pynotify
from time import sleep, time
from simplejson import loads

server = 'http://localhost:5984/'

pynotify.init('couchmon')

n = pynotify.Notification(server)

while True:
    tasks = loads(urllib.urlopen('%s_active_tasks' % server).read())
    if tasks:
        n.props.body = "\n".join(["%s (%s): %s" % (t['type'], t['task'], t['status']) for t in tasks])
        n.show()

        
    sleep(5)