quinnlangille / pad-patrol

Get SMS alerts when apartment listings update

🕵🏠 Pad Patrol

Find your next place faster

Pad Patrol is a small tool that watches a list of supplied URLs for changes. When it sees a change, it will send an SMS to your phone with the changed URL, meaning you won't need to endlessly refresh pages ever again 😎

Note Pad Patrol is in a serious infancy, and currently only works with Kijiji links. Feel free to make any contributions if you end up adapting it for other sites 🚀

Usage

To get started, you'll need to sign up for a twilio account (They offer a free trial that should accomodate the duration of your apartment hunt).

Once that's done, you'll need clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/quinnlangille/pad-patrol.git

Because most of the info involved with Twilio is user confidential, we use .dotenv to keep private info safe. To use it you'll add some envionmental variables to the .env file in the root of this project

Finally, once your ENV's have been added, finish with the usual

$ yarn install // or npm install
$ yarn start

That's it - Happy hunting 🕵!