Query videocache queue?

--- videocache/videocache.py
+++ videocache/videocache.py
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ class VideoIDPool:
             return self.queue[video_id]
         return False
 
+    def get_queue_size(self)
+        return len(self.queue)
+
     def remove_from_queue(self, video_id):
         """Dequeue a video_id from the download queue."""
         if video_id in self.queue.keys():

#!/bin/sh
# get videocache queue size
VCACHE='videocache.domain.tld'
 
tmp=`mktemp -t vc`  #|| exit 1
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<methodCall>
    <methodName>get_queue_size</methodName>
    <params>
    </params>
</methodCall>" > $tmp
 
size=`cat $tmp | wc -c`
 
msg=`mktemp -t vc`
echo "POST / HTTP/1.1
Content-length: $size
" > $msg
 
cat $tmp >> $msg
rm $tmp
cat $msg | nc $VCACHE 9100 | sed -ne '/value/p' | grep -o '[0-9]'
rm $msg