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I have a script that gets a bunch of data and emails it to me and some co-workers every day at 7AM. Stuff includes: high temperature/probability of precipitatio
by timpark 10y ago
I have a script that gets a bunch of data and emails it to me and some co-workers every day at 7AM.
Stuff includes: high temperature/probability of precipitation for the day, bitcoin price, iTunes/Google play sales/rating values, number of "diff" lines in web pages, number of followers on Facebook/Twitter/Google+. The latter isn't entirely a vanity thing... some co-workers manage multiple social media accounts and it's nice to know if readership is going up or down.
Part of the point was a) to aggregate everything in one report to reduce the temptation of looking at something multiple times per day, b) to avoid visiting multiple pages in order to find all the information, and c) to find changes in things that I may have forgotten about since they rarely change.
I've thought about making it available for others, but it'd take a bunch of work, and I'm not sure what the demand would be like.
- dflock 10y agoNeat! IFTTT also does this - you can create whatever events and add and output to a daily/weekly digest email, which is sent at a configurable time, if it has any content.
- timpark 10y agoThanks. :) I've been meaning to look at IFTTT more, but you know, scratch your own itch, etc. I'm not sure if it could do a sparkline like I do, but maybe if you add to a Google sheet or something. (The characters in my example got filtered out, but they look like https://github.com/sindresorhus/sparkly-cli https://github.com/sindresorhus/sparkly-cli ) eg: 12.20 (-1.60) temp