epicgameswebscraper

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EpicGamesWebScraper

EpicGamesWebScraper is a CLI Go app that visits Epic games store and sends information about the free weekly game via Slack.

Getting Started

Running program

• The simplest way is to download the binary from GitHub Releases and run it (only windows).

Building from source

Requirements:

• Go 1.17 or newer

$ git clone "https://github.com/ahmedmansourxyz/EpicGamesWebScraper.git"
$ cd EpicGamesWebScraper/
$ go mod init github.com/ahmedmansourxyz/EpicGamesWebScraper
$ go mod tidy
$ go build

Executing program

• For a UNIX Operating system:

$ ./EpicGamesWebScraper

• For Windows:

 ./EpicGamesWebScraper.exe

Using program

Requirments:

• Generating an incoming webhook URL by following Slack API documentation
  

Now you can simply execute the program, enter your webhook URL and finally specify the rate in which the slack message is sent.

Please note that the format of input for this rate should be like the following: An integer followed by the unit of time.
Examples: 12 sec, 5 d, 30 min

Screenshot of successful execution of program

Author

Ahmed Mansour

Version History

• 0.1
  • Initial Release

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details