/vax-scraper

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Techno-dystopian vaccine availability tracker/scraper

  1. Set up an account at twilio.com
  2. Gather the account SID, and API key from the Twilio developer console
  3. Create a new file under the name .env (duplicate .env.sample to make your life a bit easier), filling in the credentials from the previous step, plus the phone number you want to receive the SMS notification
  4. Run npm install in your console to grab all the necessary dependencies
  5. Run npm start in your console to start the scraper, which runs at a 1-minute interval (customizable in cron.js) and will shoot off a notification SMS if the website yields a response indicating there might be vaccine slots available!

Good luck! 🤞🤞