node-toogoodtogo-watcher

Node.js cli tool for monitoring your favorite TooGoodToGo businesses. Notifications are shown when the stock of any of the businesses changes. The following notification types are supported:

Desktop notification
Console output
Telegram chat message

Updates

12 dec. 2021

Fixed new authentification login through email confirmation
Fixed security issue (packages updates)
General improvements

See below for Docker usage.

Installation

Install Node.js 8.x or higher (Windows | Linux | OSx).
npm install -g toogoodtogo-watcher
toogoodtogo-watcher config. Fill in your TooGoodToGo account details. Optionally enable / disable certain notifications. See Configuring Telegram notifiations for instructions on setting up the Telegram notifications.
toogoodtogo-watcher watch

CLI documentation

New telegram interface !

Usage: toogoodtogo-watcher <command>

Commands:
  login         To login to your account
  config        Edit the config file.
  config-reset  Reset the config to the default values.
  config-path   Show the path of the config file.
  watch         Watch your favourite busininesses for changes.

Options:
  --help     Show help                                                 [boolean]
  --version  Show version number                                       [boolean]

Telegram documentation

Usage: /<command>
Example: /help

Features:
- Scanning your favorite markets list when product is going to be sell.
- Scanning top markets around you with products to sell.

Commands:
  /startFav            To start sending notifications when products are available on your favorites markets.
  /stopFav             To stop scanning your favorite markets list.
  send your location   Send your map location to be notify when a top ranked market has products to sell.
  /stopLoc             Stop scanning top ranking markets around you.
  /stop                Stopping everything, and turn off all notifications
  /status              To know which scanning process is turn on/off
  /help                Show the helper menu

Displaying the notifications in the Windows notification center

By default Windows doesn't display the notifications in the notification center. You can enable this by doing the following steps.

Go to 'notifications & actions settings' (Windows key, type 'notifications', enter)
Click on the 'toast' app at the bottom of the screen.
Enable the 'show in action center' checkbox.

Configuring Telegram notifiations

Open a Telegram chat with BotFather.
Follow the instructions to create your own bot.
Copy the token and enter it in the configuration via toogoodtogo-watcher config, and set enabled to true.
Start the application toogoodtogo-watcher watch
Click the t.me/BOTNAME link from the BotFather chat message.
Press BEGIN.
Your bot should greet you, and show a notification about your favorites. Note: the bot will show the favorites which you configured. Multiple people can connect to the bot to get updates about these favorites.

Docker

Create a directory config and copy the config.defaults.json to config/config.json. See above for instructions on how to configure the application.

Docker run

docker run \
 --name toogoodtogo-watcher \
 -v /full/path/to/config:/home/node/.config/toogoodtogo-watcher-nodejs \
 marklagendijk/toogoodtogo-watcher`

Docker Compose

docker-compose.yaml:

version: "3"
services:
  toogoodtogo-watcher:
    image: marklagendijk/toogoodtogo-watcher
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./config:/home/node/.config/toogoodtogo-watcher-nodejs

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