Request your homepage via a cron job

This is intended to run on some 'always on' device running linux/macos. Personally I'm using it on a raspberry pi to keep power consumption to a minimum however any linux device will work.

To install and use: I assume you have python 3 and pipenv installed on your machine.

git clone [email protected]:Jompra/pingu.git Pingu
cd Pingu
pipenv shell
pipenv install
sudo python3 pingu.py

sudo is required to edit the cron jobs. You may need to enter yourr password or press okay on a dialogue box.

Pingu creates a cron job to run a script that will request your homepage and then do nothing with it. It's handy for keeping sleepy servers alive.

Initally intended to run on a raspberry pi with raspbian but ultimately can run on any mac/linux machine, just make sure it's always on.

This was a super quick rush together so please send me a PR with any improvements.

You can stop the process working by simply removing the pingu directory: CD to the directory where Pingu is saved and carefully type:

rm -rf Pingu

however to remove the cron job do the following:

sudo env EDITOR=nano crontab -e

Delete any lines ending with Pingu/ping.py Control o, enter, then control x. Press okay on any dialogue box

Please feel free to fork the repo and add any clever functionality that you have.