Watchpage heroku

Has a website changed? The provided shell script deploys on heroku and will poll for changes and notify you when they occur. Currently notifications via SendGrid (mail) and Twilio (SMS) are supported, but you could easily add custom ones by modifying the script.

Installing on heroku

Download and unzip archive
git init && git add . && git commit -m "Created watcher"
Run heroku create --buildpack http://github.com/ryandotsmith/null-buildpack.git
git push heroku master

Configure the site you want to watch and the polling interval:

 heroku config:set \
 URL=http://inserturltoyoursitehere.com \
 SLEEP_MINS=12

(Optional) Configure SMS notifications. Register for a Twilio account to receive SMS/Call notifications. The TWILIO_FROM variable used below must be a number you can use for sending SMS and must be configured in your account. SMS_RECIPIENTS should be a space separated string with numbers your application has access to send to.
```
 heroku config:set \
 TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=<insert> \
 TWILIO_TOKEN=<insert> \
 TWILIO_FROM=<insert> \
 SMS_RECIPIENTS="+4712345678 +47987654321"
```

(Optional) Configure Call notifications. In addition to registering on Twilio as described above, you must request access to call the desired countries. Test via Twilio's pages first, then configure notifications with:

 heroku config:set \
 TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=<insert> \
 TWILIO_TOKEN=<insert> \
 TWILIO_FROM=<insert> \
 TWILIO_CALL_RESPONDER=<http://yourdomain.com/someurl/answer.xml> \
 CALLER_RECIPIENTS="+4712345678 +47987654321"

Where answer is a static/dynamically generated file with the following contents (example):

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <Response>
     <Say voice="woman">Site has changed</Say>
 </Response>

(Optional) Configure email notifications (more info and implementation details)

 heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter
 heroku config:set MAIL_RECIPIENTS="to[]=person1@mail.com&to[]=person2@mail.com"

heroku ps:scale worker=1 (can be stopped by setting worker=0. Check the current status with heroku ps)
Run heroku config:set TEST_SEND_ON_START=true. You should receive a notification if the configuration is working. If it's working, run heroku config:unset TEST_SEND_ON_START to avoid receiving notifications after config changes and reboot/deploys.

Tips

Download nezumi from App Store and remote control your app - change settings, view logs, stop/start.

Credit

Inspired from http://github.com/ryandotsmith/null-buildpack

mobmad/watchpage-heroku

Watchpage heroku

Installing on heroku

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