address_checker

A stupid but hacked way of persistently checking address-level balances for monitoring.

Prereq's

• Can type stuff into terminal.

Installaion

1. Clone this repo.
2. Get your automator PATH and the PATH for the file address_checker.workflow. This can be done by which automator and pwd respectively.
3. Run the command crontab -e and paste in the following information:

# Check addresses at 10:10 every day
10 10 * * * /usr/bin/automator /<PATH>/address_checker.workflow

^ This above can be changed to a schedule of your choice, a great website for the schedule you want is crontab.guru.

4. Take the <PATH> and also paste this into the file address_checker.sh.

5. Open automator and also take this <PATH> into the "Run AppleScript" tab.

The reason for this automator stuff is that any text output to stdout will come up as an apple notification much like slack (for example).

Note: As you can see in the source code the API requests are being sent to blockchair and you can easily become IP-blacklisted from too many requests. Occaisonal requests are best.

Adding your addresses

Head to the file address_checker.py, there is a simple dict structure which holds the address, ticker and a string of your choice. Fill in much like the example commented out.

Rooms for improvement

Loads.