I want to start being more active with signing petitions that I agree with that are open for signatures on the Our Commons website. The annoying thing is, while I do want to be active and be on top of things, I also don't want to have to check the website every day to see if anything new has popped up.

I've checked the site to see if there's an email subscription to be made aware of new petitions available, or if there's an RSS feed available there, but neither seems to be the case. Does anybody know off hand how I can be notified of new petitions, or am I SOL?

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[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

You are not SOL, I have learnt python just for this and every new petition will be posted here some time in the morning of any new petition created over the last day. Not entirely sure how cron.daily works, I know how crontab works but cron.daily is a mystery to me yet.

When I say I learnt I mean I looked up guides and had Claude check my work, but AI is horrible at writing code.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would suggest write a script or have an AI write you a script to send you emails about new petitions.

I may have to look into this, I enjoy seeing petitions and trying to decide if I support them or not, or if the representative asking for signatures can go to hell!

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If you do write one, have it post on Lemmy. This is the kind of automated feed I'd like to see here.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It’s Alive

I am not to terribly familiar with python but after several hours of trial and error I got the script! I even created a new account and told admin that is what it is for, and they let me open the account.

I wrote the script and had Claude just check it over for me every time I came into an error. I think I learnt more python from Claude’s F ups on what I asked for help with than Claude actually helping.

I hate languages that require exact spaces, growing up I taught myself html and I was happy with not needing to know spaces and I could understand everything. Wish I also taught myself some more useful languages but here we are.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I got into some trouble with posts being automated here because for whatever reason the script I was using was posting stuff three four times, but I will see what I can do.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The Federal Canadian government still uses "X" (formerly twitter) and Facebook for communications. I hope it's not one of those. Good luck! If you find out, let the rest of us know.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

New petitions should be posted every morning by my python bot. Here is hoping at least.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It looks like ourcommons.ca has an RSS feed.

*edit: looks like the RSS feed is bogus or at least I could not find it, easily.