How hard is it to make something using h.e or raspberry pi to alert me when something is in stock?

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I’ve been trying to get into this Iptv site for 2 years. Randomly every couple month they change that negative number to a positive number for like an hour. Any way to be notified when it does Shopping Cart - ETERNAL HOSTING

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Seems like a LOT of work for something that you could easily do with https://changetower.com/ https://onwebchange.com/ or any number of other services that detect website changes for free and in about 5 minutes.

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I see, but they all cost like $5+ a month

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Both of those have a free version that can run a couple of checks a day. You can certainly do it with an rpi and HE but it seems like a lot of work to me. You have to setup a cronjob on the pi that will use curl to download the webpage, write a script to run a regex against it, then use MakerAPI to send details over to HE... just seems like a lot.

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Thank you. Free won’t work unfortunately as they only open for like 20 mins

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Gotcha, then you'd either need to setup a cronjob on an rpi or build an app on HE to poll the website and search for the string you want and send a notification out. Not "hard" but I don't know your level of programming experience.

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What the world would something like this possibly have to do with Hubitat?

How is anyone supposed to help you without having any clue what your level of programming is?

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I was asking how hard it was because I pay a programmer to do stuff like this on fiver. I just wanted to see how involves this was. And connect h.e to send the notifications

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The part of hitting the website using a pi would be pretty trivial, I would probably hit a rule using Hubitat api that would send a notification/ turn on a light/ make a announcement. Then it’s just a matter of having the code detect a change in the site and hit the Hubitat api url

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Thank you

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I'd just build it in HE directly, why involve an rpi? No need to make it extra complex. As a ballpark for you (since you said you're paying someone) if someone asked me to build this I'd charge $50 (hence why that $5/month doesn't sound so bad!)

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Thank you, if I paid you to build this, how hard would it be for me to change the “parameters”.. it would be worth if I could change the site and “item” watched.

I buy and sell things for a living, I’d pay a couple hundred actually