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Powerpath

If you want to automate your astrology...this is a simple node.js web scraper that can be invoked from command line. I subscribe to The Power Path monthly horoscope, but I got sick of following the link to the website and manually copy-pasting the part I was interested in every month :P

This project was based on a Scotch.io web scraper example so I could start learning Node.js and jQuery.

Features:

  • Date calculation to determine the proper URL
  • Traverses the DOM to locate the "Dates and Time Frames" section
  • Extracts and formats the data & sends via Mailgun

Prerequisites

Install

git clone https://github.com/jfrench206/powerpath/ && npm install

Run

This project uses Mailgun for sending email, because it's way easier than messing with Gmail security.

Mailgun setup

  1. Sign up for a free account here.
  2. Add at least one email recipient here.

Edit the credentials.js file

  1. Open the credentials.js file (found in your local /powerpath directory) in a text editor.
  2. Follow this link and click on your domain name (e.g. sandboxXYZ.mailgun.org).
  3. Select "API" from the screen that follows, and copy the API key. Paste it into the "apiKey" section of the credentials.js file.
  4. Go back to Mailgun, hit the back button, and select the "SMTP" section. Copy these values: "Username" into credentials.js "from" section...
  5. ...and the part after the @ sign of "Username" into the credentials.js "domain".
  6. Finally, enter the same recipient address that you added in step 2 of "Mailgun setup" into the "to" field.

Phew! Now you should be all set. Run the app using

$ node server.js

If all goes well, you should get a confirmation like this:

{ id: '<timestamp@sandboxXYZ.mailgun.org>',
  message: 'Queued. Thank you.' }

Woohoo! Next up is to automate the script each month using a cron job or similar. Stay tuned...

Authors

  • Jesse French - Modification and customization - jfrench206

Acknowledgments

  • Hat tip to kukicado for the "Scraping the the Web with Node.js" tutorial on Scotch.io, which this project is based on.
  • Thanks to bbugh for coaching and guidance