gmichokostas / my-monzo

Get a txt message at your phone every time you use your Monzo card.

my-monzo

Sends txt messages using Twilio's API every time you use your Monzo card for payments.

Quick how-to

For deploying to Heroku have a look at the Heroku branch https://github.com/gmichokostas/my-monzo/tree/heroku

1. First you need to own a Monzo card.

2. Install Go at your machine.

3. Get the source code with go get github.com/gmichokostas/my-monzo

4. Create a webhook using Monzo's API pointing to your URL.

5. Create a Twilio Account.

6. Grab your Twilio's credentials, configure Twilio with your $EDITOR and you're ready to go:

   $ cp twilio/config.json.sample twilio/config.json
   
   $ $EDITOR config.json
   

Configuration

The configuration file contains JSON. The following keys can be defined and all are required:

• APIURL – To send a new outgoing message, make an HTTP POST to your Messages list resource URI.
• From – A Twilio phone number for the type of message you wish to send.
• To – The destination phone number.
• Username – Basic HTTP Auth username.
• Password – Basic HTTP Auth password.

Project Purpose

The original motivation for creating this project was firstly to be able to get notified every time I use my Monzo card in case I don't have access to the internet through my phone and second to learn the Go language.