Zwift gnome desktop widget

[glennvl]

I often find myself...

• waiting for the latest zwift release to actually become available after it is announced on the zwift forums
• visiting ZwiftInsider to check the climb/route/workout of the week

So I created a little gnome widget that pulls the above information and shows it on my desktop.

Want to try this yourself?

Install the Desktop Widget Gnome Extension and add a custom widget with the following configuration.

Create a new custom widget

Go to the Desktop Widget settings page and add a new custom widget.

Add the logo

Add a new element of type logo. This is the image I used.

Add the zwift version

Add a new element of type command. The command to fetch the latest zwift version is:

echo "v$(wget --no-cache --quiet -O - http://cdn.zwift.com/gameassets/Zwift_Updates_Root/Zwift_ver_cur.xml | grep -oP 'sversion="\K.*?(?=")' | cut -f 1 -d ' ')"

Add the climb/route/workout of the week

Add a new element of type command. The command that fetches this information from the ZwiftInsider article is:

curl --max-time 10 --retry 3 -s "https://zwiftinsider.com/weekly-challenges/" | hxclean | hxselect -c -s '\n' 'table.calendar-table td.current-day span.spiffy-title' 2>/dev/null | sed 's/ ([0-9]\+XP)//g' | awk 'NR==1{climb=$0} NR==2{workout=$0} NR==3{route=$0} END{print "Climb: " climb "\nWorkout: " workout "\nRoute: " route}'

Note that to parse the html and extract the date the hxclean and hxselect commands are used. Those can be found in the html-xml-utils package (install with sudo dnf install html-xml-utils or sudo apt install html-xml-utils).

[glennvl]

Apparently there is not necessarily a climb, workout, and route every week. So we cannot rely on the three being present when extracting the information from the zwift insider calendar.

Updated command:

bash <<-EOF
  EVENTS_OTW=\$(curl --max-time 10 --retry 3 -s "https://zwiftinsider.com/weekly-challenges/" | hxclean | hxselect 'table.calendar-table td.current-day span.spiffy-event-group' 2>/dev/null)

  for category in "Climb:370" "Workout:369" "Route:367"; do
    IFS=":" read -r label id <<< "\$category"
    event=\$(echo "\$EVENTS_OTW" | hxselect -c "span.category_\$id span.event-title" | sed 's/ ([0-9]\+XP)//g')
    [ -n "\$event" ] && echo "\$label: \$event"
  done
EOF