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A tiny Python program to scrape Koodo Mobile's prepaid billing dashboard and return data therein as a JSON blob (or CSV) over HTTP. Super rough, lightweight, and brittle. Currently only fetches data about usage - how many minutes and how many megabytes you have left on your mobile "Boosters."

Includes a D3.js graph that you can look at to view your usage over time, as well as a cronjob that can automatically fetch data from Koodo.

Runs well (and for free) on Heroku:

##Local installation

git clone https://github.com/psobot/koodo-prepaid-api.git
cd koodo-prepaid-api
pip install -r requirements.txt

To run the server locally:

python koodo.py --server

To fetch a single data point from Koodo:

python koodo.py --fetch

##Configuration

Important variables - like the username and password you use to log into Koodo's prepaid billing dashboard - need to be stored somewhere. What better place than in environment variables?

• KOODO_USERNAME stores the user name (i.e. email address) used to log into your Koodo prepaid account.

• KOODO_PASSWORD stores the password you use to log into your Koodo prepaid account. (super secure)

• DATABASE_URL stores the DB connection string used to connect to some sort of a database. If you don't provide this, a SQLite DB called koodo.db will be created in the current directory and used instead. (Note that SQLite won't work on Heroku.)

##Heroku Setup The one-click "Deploy to Heroku" button above should do almost everying required to set this app up on Heroku, but there are still a couple steps that need doing.

• Log into the Heroku Scheduler Dashboard and add a single recurring task that calls python koodo.py --fetch every hour. (This task shouldn't take longer than 30 seconds to fetch a single data point from Koodo, which means that running the task hourly won't exceed your monthly free dyno allotment.)

##TODO

Tons of cool stuff could be done with this data. Scrape another page to find out things like:

• How much am I actually spending on my Koodo prepaid account, on average?
• Is Prepaid still cheaper than Postpaid, given my usage patterns?