kevquirk
Automating regular website checks
If I understand the FAQ correctly, regular website checks are done manually, but did you consider automating these ?
Sorry for the delay in reply - only just saw this.
We kinda do. We have scripts we run to check them, but it's still fairly manual. If you have any ideas to fully automate it, I'd love to hear them. Unfortunately, a lot of the services out there that can do this kind of thing cost money.
So you're paying for the GTMetrix API ?
Otherwise I would suggest performing measurements using a headless browser.
No, we're not at the moment, because it's so manual. If we wanted to fully automate checking for both size changes and whether they're still up, we'd need to (I think).
I think this thread is relevant: #749
I'll dig into that later today, it's been a while.
A headless browser can do these as well.
this is def possible and can be done easily in a gh action. ( i could spin up a pr for it)
https://github.com/kevquirk/512kb.club/pull/1390 should close this I think
Well, the script has yet to be automatically ran on a schedule, e.g. using GitHub Actions (in which case the authentication parameter must be moved into an environment variable).
Oh! I did not realize that. I may be able to assist writing an action, or with providing a server to run it from that has some spare bandwidth.
@moebrowne just submitted #1830 which solves a lot of this. I just need to find the time to look at their 512-check repo and start using it myself.
