If you’re not a member of the Swedish community ungdomar.se or any of the other sites from the same company (e.g. gameplayer.se) this article will be of very little use to you. However, if you are a member of said community, I will show you how to get data from there onto your desktop using a little bit of Bash magic combined with the power of Conky. Even if you don’t care about ungdomar.se, the same techniques that I’m going to show you could be used to fetch wheather information, the TV guide, stock prices, or pretty much anything else.

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