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A few years back, my car was one of the millions with an airbag recall. For months, they sent letters saying it was my turn, but if I called to book an appointm
by adrianmonk 5y ago
A few years back, my car was one of the millions with an airbag recall. For months, they sent letters saying it was my turn, but if I called to book an appointment, they'd say they didn't have the part in for me yet, and I had to check a web site to see if it was really my turn.
So I wrote a script that would poll the web site using curl and notify me via Slack if the status had changed. I put that in cron, and every day it would give me the airbag report.
One day it told me that status had changed, so I called and they booked the appointment.
- jacobmischka 5y agoI did something similar for the Walgreens website for my mother when vaccines were new and appointments were hard to come by, it worked pretty perfectly and we were able to schedule her an appointment shortly after she was eligible. Though, somewhat humorously, very soon afterward eligibility was expanded to everyone in my state and vaccination appointments were much easier to find.