aws-urlwatch

An AWS-based urlwatch running on ECS which periodically runs the program to scan for any updates to select web-pages.

Architecture

cloud-urlwatch

cloud-urlwatch contains the AWS-SAM template which outlines the different applications for the project.

docker-urlwatch

docker-urlwatch contains the docker template and configuration files for urlwatch.

Usage

1. Update the urls.yaml with the URL's to be tracked, as defined in the urlwatch documentation.
2. Create a secret named cloud-urlwatch/email-details to AWS Secrets Manager, and add the following key/value secrets:
   • EmailHost: The SMTP host used to send emails from
   • EmailPort: The SMTP port used to send emails from
   • EmailUser: The username used to send emails over the SMTP host
   • EmailPass: The password for the EmailUser
   • EmailFrom: The email address the urlwatch mail comes from
   • EmailRcpt: The recipient of the urlwatch mail
3. Create a pushover application to send push notifications to a phone on errors.
4. Create new parameters within AWS Parameter Store named pushoverToken and pushoverUser containing the user and token created in the previous step.
5. Navigate to cloud-urlwatch and run the command below, ensuring to update the parameters with those set up in the previous steps, which can all be found in samconfig.toml. Note the S3 bucket will be different after running the command: sam build --use-container && sam deploy --guided