Summarizing quote: “We are going to build a web scraper that monitors the Toastmasters web portal and notifies me as soon as roles for an upcoming meeting become available for selection.”
Interesting, I don't know javascript though. In chrome I use the Automa extension, which is connecting lines with blocks (and you still have to pick up some js. I didn't even know what an 'element' was when I started). Even a beginner can do something useful after an hour of study or so. YMMV.
For some reason this submission was stopped showing up anywhere on Hacker News a couple of hours after I published it. Perhaps because the link was broken for a little while this triggered some automatic moderation.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 26.2 ms ] threadSummarizing quote: “We are going to build a web scraper that monitors the Toastmasters web portal and notifies me as soon as roles for an upcoming meeting become available for selection.”
Thanks for reposting a working link. The link should be back up and working now.
I was messing around with my new blogging tool (Notion + Super) and must have broken something.
Note to self don't start randomly changes website settings after posting to HN.
https://github.com/AutomaApp/automa
https://docs.automa.site/
There's a library of scripts you can copy from
https://www.automa.site/workflows
Personally I would love to see a Dalle 2 for automation. Would be great to just be able to write.
1. Go to toastmaster website
2. Find next meeting
3. Check if I have selected a role
4. Send SMS
And it magically works. Ahhh maybe one day.