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In the series “this wouldn’t have been possible six months ago” I was on my way to a track and field meeting this morning. I’m a coach so I need to monitor results for several athletes. …

Results are published on a website. All coaches, athletes, and parents are constantly refreshing the webpage during meets waiting for the published results for each event throughout the day. It’s annoying. …

Driving towards the venue, I asked my son, who was travelling with me, to type what I dictate to my agent. By the time I got to the track, I had a cron running every five minutes… …

…scraping the results page, finding new results, finding our club’s athletes, and sending a message to a Telegram channel with their result. I made some adjustments (via my agent, of course) while I was at the meet. All using my phone to talk to my agent. …

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No more refreshing webpages all day. We also get a nice summary at the end of the day when the meet is over. Now my agent is tidying up to make it easy to launch at the start of every meet.