grburgess / grbfunk

A notifier for reading the GCN VOEvents and blasting them out

GRB Funk

Broadcasting mad GRB vibes to your earholes... well your phone holes. Thanks to amazing era of multi-messenger astronomy, the original GCN system's email distribution has made my email useless for following GRB alerts. Thus, I made this little tool to bump things to telegram thanks to the pygcn package.

grbfunk is highly customized for what I want to see, but feel free to use it as your own model.

Installation

pip install grbfunk

Usage

Note that this will not work out of the box as it looks for a telegram bot token and chat_id to transmit the messages. Of course, you do not have to use the software this way as it can serve as a clean wrapper around GRB notifications or as a backend pipeline. However if you desire to use it as is, you need a telegram bot and then:

	$> mkdir ~/.grbfunk
	$> cd ~./grbfunk
	$> touch access.yaml
	$> emacs access.yaml

token:
	<your bot token>
chat_id:
	<your chat_id>

Note: if you do not use emacs this will still work. Unless you use vim. You should never do that.

Then you can simply run

	$> grbfunk

and this will listen for GRB alerts and broadcast their funk to telegram.