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 🚀
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 🕵!