Upcoming Oddbox Deliveries Scraper

Get the upcoming contents of your Oddbox. A small personal project for learning, and because I just want to know what's in the damned box.

Intro blog post

AWS Set Up

This project runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You can create an account here. Though this project assumes some familiarity with AWS.

• You need a User in an AWS account with sufficient permissions to create and modify AWS resources (see both main.tf and main.data.tf for a list). Create an access and secret key for this User and store the details in your local AWS Config Files (official config file docs). This profile is referenced by the aws_profile variable.
• This project uses AWS SES (simple e-mail service) to alert you of upcoming deliveries. To do this you must have at least one verified domain in SES. There are many way to do this.

Set Up Terraform

• You must create a .tfvars file (e.g. main.tfvars) locally and specify the following values:
  • email_address_from : the sender of the notifying e-mail (e.g. Oddbox Scraper Notification <example@gmail>)
  • email_address_to : the e-mail that will receive the notification of the upcoming Oddbox delivery contents
  • email_address_reply_to : if you decide to reply to the e-mail, where is it going
  • aws_profile : The name of the AWS profile set up in your local config which will deploy the resources.
  • aws_region : self explanatory, e.g. eu-west-1

Local Set Up

• Make sure you have node and NPM installed, then install yarn (npm i -g yarn)/
• Download the dependencies (yarn) and build the functions (yarn build)
• Create your Terraform varaibles file in the root directory (e.g. main.tfvars)
• terrafom plan -var-file="main.tfvars to view the changes Terraform will make and deploy
• terraform apply -var-file="main.tfvars to actually deploy those to your cloud environment