Corotos-Pet-Finder

With Corotos-Pet-Finder you can set up searches for specific pets on the corotos web site (a craigslist-like website in the Dominican Republic) via text message and get a text notification when someone posts a matching offer. This service saves you multiple visits to the site in order to find the pet of your dreams.

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Contents

• Overview
• Technologies & Stack
• Features
• Screenshots

Overview

Corotos-Pet-Finder helps you find a pet on the Corotos Web Site:

• by creating a subscription via text message
• scraping the Corotos Website and notifying the subscribers via text message if there is a match
• storing multiple subscriptions on Redis
• summing up multiple matches per scrape into one text message

Technologies and stack

Backend

Python, Beautiful Soup, Redis

APIs:

Twilio.

Features

• Set up pet search through text message

• Scrape Corotos Website with Beautiful Soup for matches.

• Store subscriptions via Redis.

• Receive matches summed up in a single text message

APIs

• Twilio API integration allows users to set up their search via text message and also receive the notification for matches.

Screenshots

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You'll need your own API keys for Twilio!

pip install -r requirements.txt

create a secrets.py which contains the following variables:
	twilio_account_sid = "[YOUR TWILIO ACCOUND SID]"
	token = "[YOUR TWILIO TOKEN]"
	my_number = "[YOUR TWILIO NUMBER]"

redis-server

(If you want to monitor the calls) redis-cli >> monitor

You can use ngrok (https://ngrok.com/) to create a public URL to a local webserver on your machine

Set up the messaging web hook for your twilio number to your ngrok url + "/sms"

python sms_handler.py

Send a text message to your Twilio number with the type of pet you're searching for e.g. "Shihtzu"

python scraper.py