scrape-cafe

A thingy to broadcast application decisions from GradCafe to a Telegram channel

telegram.me/scrapecafe

Configuration

Configuration is handled by settings.py

• KEYWORDS: Declare the keywords to search GradCafe
• TELEGRAM_BOT_API_KEY: Specify the Telegram bot API key. Ask the BotFather to create one for you.
• TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_NAME: Set the channel name where updates will be broadcasted. Channel names start with a @

Usage

Create a cron job to run the crawler periodically, like every 5 minutes:

*/5 * * * * cd ~/scrape-cafe && /usr/local/bin/scrapy crawl gradcafe

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License: MIT