Dave Liu daliu
daliu
/ check_vaccine.py
Created
April 14, 2021 19:29
— forked from samliu/check_vaccine.py
Find CVS appointments for COVID-19 vaccine, and get them texted to your phone.
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| """check_vaccine.py | |
| Checks CVS for vaccine appointment availability and sends text messages if they show up. | |
| Requires paid account on Twilio. You can fund $5 and it'll be plenty, a SMS is less than 1 cent. | |
| Assuming you use a *nix system with Python 3 and want to deploy via crontab, you can do something like this: | |
| 1. `which python` Record the output. (It's nice to give crontab the full path of your python binary.) | |
| 2. `export VISUAL=vim` (For `crontab -e` to use vim; my personal preference.) | |
| 3. `crontab -e` to create a new line in your crontab. Next line is an example: |