endamolloy / workflowy-backup-bot

A bot, built using chrome puppeteer, that emails you a copy of your workflowy lists periodically.

workflowy-backup-bot

A puppeteer bot that scrapes your workflowy lists and sends you a copy. The bot is deployed on heroku and the frequency of scrapes is set by a custom heroku scheduler.

Getting Started

• Mailgun is used to send an email with your scraped data, you can signup for a free Mailgun sandbox account here.

  From mailgun, you will need both your STMP Login and password. If using the free default options, these credentials will look like the below format. Yes, these are fake!

  • Default SMTP Login: [email protected]
  • Default Password: c0c9sfsdfwetwesdgsdd6f4b48feab0cb

• If you want to deploy to the cloud, there are a number of options each with there own advantages and disadvantages. Check out the puppeteer troubleshooting doc for more details. Heroku is used in this example. To deploy to Heroku you need to download the Heroku CLI. Note: If you do not wish to deploy your bot you could set up a local cron or anacron job.

Install

git clone [email protected]:EndaMolloy/workflowy-backup-bot.git

npm install

Deploy

Create new Heroku bot:

heroku create YOURAPPNAME

Add the puppeteer heroku buildpack (Note: The node version is specified in package.json so the node buildpack gets added automatically):

https://github.com/jontewks/puppeteer-heroku-buildpack.git

Deploy to Heroku:

git push heroku master

Heroku Settings

Your bot should now be sucessfully deployed and hopefully both Node and Chrome frameworks show up in your bot settings on the Heroku dashboard

Finally, this is a bot not a web app, you need to make some changes to the default dyno settings under the resources tab. Disable the web process and enable the clock process.

That's it, you should now have a working puppeteer bot.