Series Timer
scrapes the list of episodes of any series from wikipedia (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_House_episodes)
Download
https://rubygems.org/gems/series_timer
Usage
./bin/seriestimr -[lanf] <series names>
-l = last episode on air
-a = list all episodes
-n = next episode
-f = force a cache update
ex:
./bin/seriestimr -nf House "The Big Bang Theory" "Dexter"
Next episode
./bin/series_timer -n "The Mentalist" Californication
[The Mentalist] S05e13 Red is the New Black 2012-02-02 (4 days)
[Californication] S05e04 Waiting for the Miracle 2012-01-29 (0 days)
Last episode on air
./bin/series_timer -l House Dexter
[House] S08e09 Better Half 2012-01-23
[Dexter] S06e12 This Is the Way the World Ends 2011-12-18
All Episodes
./bin/series_timer -a "Game of Thrones"
[Game of Thrones] S01e01 Winter Is Coming 2011-04-17
[Game of Thrones] S01e02 The Kingsroad 2011-04-24
[Game of Thrones] S01e03 Lord Snow 2011-05-01
[Game of Thrones] S01e04 Cripples 2011-05-08
[Game of Thrones] S01e05 The Wolf and the Lion 2011-05-15
[Game of Thrones] S01e06 A Golden Crown 2011-05-22
[Game of Thrones] S01e07 You Win or You Die 2011-05-29
[Game of Thrones] S01e08 The Pointy End 2011-06-05
[Game of Thrones] S01e09 Baelor 2011-06-12
[Game of Thrones] S01e10 Fire and Blood 2011-06-19
Authorship
Written by Adriano Bacha for Mendicant University's January 2012 core skills course.
License
Copyright (c) 2012 Adriano Bacha
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.