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# rfd-notify
This tool looks for matches on [RedFlagDeals.com forums](https://forums.redflagdeals.com/hot-deals-f9/) and will send push notifications via [apprise](https://github.com/caronc/apprise).
This was originally written before [alerts](https://www.redflagdeals.com/alerts/) existed. With rfd-notify, alerts never expire and support regular expressions.
## Prerequisites
- either [poetry](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry), docker, or github actions
- for email notifications [see supported providers](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_email#using-built-in-email-services)
## Usage
The simplest way to get started is to clone this repo, and run with docker:
```sh
docker run -it -v "$(pwd)/examples/config.yml:/app/config.yml" ghcr.io/davegallant/rfd-notify:1
```
To run the code with [poetry](https://python-poetry.org/), clone this repo and run the following:
```shell
poetry install
poetry run python rfd_notify/cli.py -c examples/config.yml
```
### Environment Variables
The following environment variables are required:
| VARIABLE | DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| APPRISE_URL | See [notifications](https://github.com/caronc/apprise#productivity-based-notifications). |
## Example Configuration
Pass a list of expressions to be used for discovering deals:
```yaml
# config.yml
expressions:
- pizza
- starbucks
- price error
```
## Github Actions (and Gitea Actions)
> Commiting the pickled data (previous_matches) back into the repository is a bit of a hack, but allows for a simpler setup.
An action can be setup to scan for deals, send a notification and store previously found deals in the repo.
The following workflow requires an `APPRISE_URL` [secret](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/reference/encrypted-secrets).
```yaml
# .github/workflows/rfd-notify.yml
on:
schedule:
- cron: "*/5 * * * *"
jobs:
rfd_notify:
name: rfd-notify
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
sparse-checkout: |
config.yml
previous_matches
- name: git pull
run: git pull
- name: Run rfd-notify
uses: davegallant/rfd-notify@main
env:
APPRISE_URL: ${{ secrets.APPRISE_URL }}
- name: Commit and push changes
run: |
git config --local user.email "actions@github.com"
git config --local user.name "RFD Notify"
git add previous_matches
git commit -m "Update previous_matches" -a || true
git push
```
## Gitlab Pipelines
> Create a [scheduled pipeline](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/schedules.html) to run on a regular interval.
With Gitlab Pipelines, the following configuration works:
```yaml
#.gitlab-ci.yml
default:
image:
name: ghcr.io/davegallant/rfd-notify:1
entrypoint: [""]
run:
cache:
- key: previous_matches
paths:
- previous_matches
script:
- python /app/rfd_notify/cli.py -c config.yml
```