Then no need to adapt it, anyone can just install screenlets and just paste the script like it says here. It could be installed as web application/widget.
Somehow im not sure if this is that easy, can you try to do that please?
It's a super primitive and short JavaScript that I wrote today within a few minutes after I noticed that those gadgets are written in JavaScript. It's basically just a simple Ajax call performed with setInterval every 30 seconds. Feel free to take and modify the script for other platforms or whatever.
I also extended the page behavior to make this possible without parsing any HTML pages from the U.S.G.N.! The link www.unrealsoftware.de/usgn.php?getcount=cc displays the Carnage Contest server count (same works for cs2d by replacing the cc with cs2d)
Tested on my Windows 7 Home Premium tablet-PC and it worked perfectly.
But now for my XP desktop, I use Rainmeter, can't any one port that app to there? Shouldn't be hard, I guess.