PHQ Text Notifier

Using Twilio & PredictHQ, this program to sends a text message with an area's top events of the day.

Currently set to include the top 5 events in an area.

To Run

Download the project...

git clone https://github.com/hhheath/phq-text-notifier.git

Create and start a virtual environment...

Note: This step is not required if you plan to run this as a CRON job. Instead, the requirements will need to be installed for the system user that will be running the cron.

python -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

Install requirements...

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create .env file from example env...

cp .example.env .env

Then fill out the fields in the .env file. Where POI takes the following form (see the PredictHQ Docs for more on within):

<radius><unit>@lat,long

After requirement installation, it's really up to you on how you want to run it. The preferred method is to run a cron job. In this example, I've cloned the project into my home directory ~/.

Add the following to your crontab (this runs the script every day at 9am)...

0 9 * * * python3 ~/phq-text-notifier/main.py

Future Improvements

• offer other ways to send messages instead of just SMS
  • email
  • webhook
• use Temporal to spawn text message workflows on a schedule instead of relying on cron.
  • this would enable the ability to "productize" this a bit more so you could send text messages to many different numbers rather than just one at a time.

If you have any ideas, please feel free to open an issue!