watching for my amateur radio license to appear in the FCC's database!

.last-uls-search-hash

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README.md

Just a quick script to search FCC's the license database and check whether my amateur radio license has appeared yet.

Requires terminal-notifier.

Docs for this API are here.

The plist goes in your ~/Library/LaunchAgents/.

com.cdzombak.watch-for-my-ham-license.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.cdzombak.watch-for-my-ham-license</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/Users/chris/code/watch-for-my-ham-license.sh</string>
	</array>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>
	<key>StartInterval</key>
	<integer>600</integer>
	<key>WatchPaths</key>
	<array>
		<string>/Users/chris/.last-uls-search-hash</string>
	</array>
</dict>
</plist>

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watch-for-my-ham-license.sh

#!/bin/bash

LAST_HASH=`cat $HOME/.last-uls-search-hash`
NOW_HASH=`curl -s -o - "http://data.fcc.gov/api/license-view/basicSearch/getLicenses?searchValue=dzombak&format=json" | md5`

if [ $LAST_HASH != $NOW_HASH ]; then
    /Applications/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier -message "The ULS DB search results for 'dzombak' have changed." -open "http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAmateur.jsp" -title "ULS DB Search Results"
    echo "$NOW_HASH" > $HOME/.last-uls-search-hash
fi