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Comment by madmod | Hacker News Reader

For the impatient. I would make a gist but...

  while true; do curl -s https://status.github.com/api/status.json | grep good && tput bel || echo -n .; sleep 1; done

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Here is a version which uses OSX's say command for a spoken announcement of "github is up again". It also checks once every minute instead of once a second.

    while true; do curl -s https://status.github.com/api/status.json | egrep 'good|minor' && say -r 160 "github is up again" || echo -n .; sleep 60; done

Edit: accept a status of minor as an indication of up-ness.

say "github" does not get the pronunciation right. say "git hub" is the way to go!

I'm not sure how ddos'ing github would help with the outage.

runs script

Judging by the fact that their status page is still up I'd say that the service is pretty independent of the rest of the site. If my one-liner gets popular enough to do damage to Github when China can't then I will be extremely proud of myself. :D

Ah, I like yours better for GitHub specifically, but for any website, my .bashrc got this as its latest addition tonight:

  # watch for a website to come back online
  # example: github down? do `mashf5 github.com`
  function mashf5() {
      watch -d -n 5 "curl --head --silent --location $1 | grep '^HTTP/'"
  }

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