A notification system

WaniKani API And Third-Party Apps
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I am extremely active on discord and am trying to create a system to remind me everytime I have reviews on discord. I successfully created it and hosted it on GCP, but just a day of running it where it checked for reviews every 30 minutes costed money (it was a very small amount tbf). Would anyone know any ways of hosting this for free? I ideally do not want to spend any money on this because its just a QOL feature. This is just a python script sending a get req to the API every 30 minutes. If it sees a review, it sends a post req to a discord webhook that posts a message on a personal discord server.

Edit: I was using a scheduler and a cloud run func

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Not super relevant but aren’t reviews updated every hour?

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Yep they are, but i want to be reminded every 30 minutes, which is why I have set things up this way.

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I think oracle cloud (as much as recommending the lawnmower sucks) has a free tier that has some basic compute resources. You’d need to deploy a VPS and use something like a systemd timer to launch your script rather than higher level cloud APIs though.

Zapier also has a wanikani integration in a ifttt like service, but not sure their free tier includes everything you need.

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Ill try oracle out then

I tried this but it has a limit of 1000 messages after which it just stops.

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How about things like Travis CI, Circle CI or GitHub Actions?

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How about a wristwatch and turn the beep on that happens every hour

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Would those work for my use case? Arent they tools used for deployment? Im not sure im asking.

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iirc, it can be set to run every hour (though not sure about Actions).

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but do they have the ability to execute scripts and allow for http reqs?

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I might end up just doing this haha, everything just looks painfully complicated here to me

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I haven’t tried doing such an app, but I’m wondering whether Amazon Lambda might support such a thing in their free tier (or other ‘serverless’ systems).

I believe that you can run a python script - and use a repeating rate time-based event trigger - but I’m unsure of whether you could invoke the API calls.

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I’ll try looking into this

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IFTTT can send messages to Discord, but I can’t tell from the web site if you can make a custom trigger, or if you’re limited to the services they already have.

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Thanks for the suggestion ill look into it!