Check If It Is The Weekend Web Scraping App

This is a Ruby on Rails web app that scrapes once a day isittheweekend.com to find out if today is the weekend and sends an update to all subscribers via SMS using the Vonage SMS API.

Prerequisites

• Ruby on Rails
• A Vonage account
• A Vonage phone number

Installation

To install this application:

• Clone this repository locally
• Run bundle install and rake db:migrate from the command line

Usage

Running Locally

To use this application:

• Set up a Vonage account
• Purchase a Vonage phone number
• Start your ngrok server from the command line
• Update your number's webhook address in the Vonage Dashboard to your ngrok URL
  • i.e. https://my-ngrok-url.ngrok.io/webhooks/event
• Copy the .env.sample file to .env and fill in the values for the variables
  • VONAGE_API_KEY: Your Vonage API key
  • VONAGE_API_SECRET: Your Vonage API secret
  • FROM_NUMBER: Your Vonage provisioned phone number
• Run whenever --update-crontab from the command line to set up the daily scraping task
• Start your Rails server
• Visit localhost:3000 in your browser and add your phone number on the form
• As long as your web server is running you will receive a once-daily SMS message

Deploying to Heroku

• Click the Deploy to Heroku button on the top
• Set up the environment variables when prompted and complete set up
• Once it is set up, schedule the Rake scraper:check_site_update task using the Heroku Scheduler

License

This project is under the MIT License