paybybot 0.0.4

Notifications for https://www.paybyphone.fr/

Simple bot that sends you an email when you didn’t pay your parking on https://www.paybyphone.fr/

Installation on a Raspberry PI (about 30 minutes)

Install Chromium

Firefox doesn’t support headless mode on Debian yet.

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Install Chromedriver

1. Go to the page of the latest armhf build on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/chromium-chromedriver

2. Use this link in

   wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/361669488/chromium-chromedriver_65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_armhf.deb

3. Install gdebi

   sudo apt-get install gdebi

4. Install chromedriver

   sudo gdebi chromium-chromedriver*.deb

5. Put chromedriver in your path

   sudo mv /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver

Sources:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/selenium/comments/7341wt/success_how_to_run_selenium_chrome_webdriver_on/

• https://superuser.com/a/196867/541587

Install pip

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Install paybybot

pip3 install paybybot
# next line is there to find the paybybot command
echo 'export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH' >> .bashrc

Configure your credentials

In ~/.paybybot:

{Your phone number}:{PayByPhone password}

In ~/.email-creds:

{Your email address}:{Email password}

For your email account, I advise you to use an app password. See here to configure one in Gmail.

Add a cron task

crontab -e

and write

50 8 * * * ~/.local/bin/paybybot

to run paybybot everyday at 8:50

Configure your timezone correctly

For both crontab and the logs.

sudo raspi-config

then Localisation Options > Change Timezone