I got distracted by this toot: A bot that automatically does stock trades … … by identifying trades being done by US politicians … … who probably have inside (I.e. and thus basically illegal-to-act-upon) knowledge of market-moving government info … … and doing the same trades He’s up 20% since May 2022 The idea

Dave pointed out this weird trick some years ago: using Github actions as a free engine for checking websites and sending you email alerts when they change. I use it fairly frequently to track things online. The code in that repo assumes the web page is available on the public