So there’s this website where they sell limited amounts of something at a very good price. Someone gave me a hint that something is going to be sold there that’s worth a lot of money on the open market, and since all the items on the website are priced according to class we know what this object will sell for.
The only problem is that manually checking the site might take too long and we might miss the boat.
So how do we solve this?
A few weeks ago I wrote about how I’m using ntfy.sh as a self-hosted notification service. After configuring my self-hosted instance on my VPS, I create an auth-token to secure the instance even further. Now I have a service that has been generalised for sending all kinds of messages.
Combining this with my rusty Python skills I used the requests package as well the html-parsing package BeautifulSoup4 and basic regex to implement the following solution on my Debian 12 VPS using a crontab entry that activates thrice a day every day to see if any new item has been uploaded.
