Kimsufi/So-you-Start Avaliability Crawler

Crawler that will notify you when Kimsufi servers (or So-you-Start, or OVH) become available for purchase.

TL;DR

git clone https://github.com/MA3STR0/kimsufi-crawler.git
cd kimsufi-crawler
cp config.json.example config.json
vim config.json   # edit config.json file to set up your nofitication preferences
sudo pip install "tornado>=4.0.0"
python crawler.py

About

Dedicated servers on Kimsufi and So you Start have amazing prices, however they are always out of stock. This crawler will notify you as aoon as servers are available for purchase; it can send emails, show Mac OS notifications, open popup windows, or even trigger sms. Then hurry up, you have around 2 minutes to complete your order :)

Set it up

Runs on Linux and Mac with Python 2.7+ or Python 3.4+

• Clone this repo (git clone https://github.com/MA3STR0/kimsufi-crawler.git) or download and unpack archive

• Taking config.json.example as a template, create a file config.json and correct configuration according to your preferences:

  • servers: list of servers that should be tracked, eg ["KS-1", "KS-2 SSD", "GAME-2"] etc. All supported server names can be found in mapping file mapping/server_types.json as values)

  • region: desired location of server, canada or europe

  • notifier: notification mechanism, choose between:

    • "email": default, requires additional email account settings
    • "popup": simple popup window, platform-independent
    • "osx": Mac OS-X desktop notifications (using terminal-notifier)
    • "smsapi": sms through smsapi.pl gateway, requires account
    • "xmpp": send jabber/xmpp message, requires account - needs xmpppy

  • to_email: your email to receive notifications

  • from_email: email account of the crawler.

  • from_pwd, from_smtp_host: smtp configuration of crawler email account

  • xmpp_jid, xmpp_password, xmpp_recipient, xmpp_send_test: xmpp configuration of sending jabber account

• Crawler runs on Python 2.7+ and Tornado framework 4.0+. Assuming that you already have Python/pip, just get Tornado with sudo pip install "tornado>=4.0.0". You can also set up virtualenv if you like.

• Run with python crawler.py

• It's a good idea to register an account on Kimsufi/OVH in advance; just pick any available server on www.kimsufi.com and sign up without paying. This way later you will only need to log in and enter payment details, which saves a lot of time.

• Get and enjoy awesome cheap servers!

Config check

Crawler makes an initial check of the config file during startup, so if you have any syntax errors or missing software dependencies - console logs will let you know.

Advanced configuration

You can add more options to the config.json if you need:

• "crawler_interval": 8 // overriding default periodic callback timeout in seconds (10 by default, should be more than 7.2)
• "from_smtp_port": 25 // use non-standard smtp port (587 by default)
• "use_starttls": true // forcing encrypted SMTP session using TLS (true by default)
• "use_ssl": false // forcing encrypted SMTP session using SSL (false by default)
• "from_user": "[email protected]" // if smtp user is different from from_email
• "from_smtp_port": 587 // if you have non-standard (587) smtp port

Versions

These instructions are based on Version 2 of the crawler. You can access last stable release of v1 by browsing through release history