Comment by kej
2 years ago
Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would check the site every five or ten minutes and then ping me as soon as the result changed to something besides PENDING.
In the course of that I stumbled on https://ntfy.sh/ which solved the notification problem without needing Twitter, and I've used it since then to let me know when long-running scripts complete.
That looks great! I'm not sure it was available in 2018 when I looked. I tried a few options, but posting to twitter & subbing to the account was the quickest hack that worked reliably.