Domestic Automation Adventures: An Inventory Tracker
summary
PowerShell code polls the Shopify API for specific product URLs, parses JSON that often includes inventory quantity and option variants and matches sizes/colors from a CSV, then sends real-time Telegram and Pushover alerts (used Invoke-RestMethod and the PSPushover module). Demo shows 5‑minute polling, wildcards for sizes, and a removed “add to cart” shortcut; it works, has one outage from a header/name bug and a BotFather health‑check expiry, and was practical enough to stop when Shop added native restock notifications.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:13Why we built tracker
- 3:39Nursing wear shortage
- 6:28Latched Mama notifier
- 9:38Shopify API discovery
- 12:04PowerShell coding
- 13:50Demo: notifications
- 18:25Future plans
- 20:30Project obsolescence
- 21:56Second-hand success
- 23:43Q&A
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