Hoot

This is Hoot! Hoot is a simple command line tool to alert you when a Terminal process has finished, with a push notification right to your device!

Hoot! Your process has finished! Come back!

Hoot is currently command line only, so you can't use it in your own project.

To install hoot, simply execute:

sudo gem install hoot

Hoot uses a Node.js middleware server that I've dubbed hedwig. Hoot simply posts the email and password you used to sign up in the iOS app -- and sends a notification to that device using Parse.

Because of the current setup Hoot is intended just for a simple computer to iPhone alert, to come back and visit your completed process.

Hedwig is also open source, and can be found at ruddfawcett/hedwig.

Hoot may in the future transition over to a npm module.

Hoot is not very fancy...

When you first install hoot, you will need to authenticate yourself using the email and password you used in the iOS app.

Execute hoot login, and you will be prompted to enter your credentials. To logout, hoot logout (you'll still have to remove all traces of Hoot form ~/.netrc, though your hashed password and email are wiped).

To use, you can do something like the following,

sh my-long-process.sh && hoot

After your scraping tool/parser/long task has been completed, you'll get an alert on your phone, such as the default message.

Hoot! Your process has finished! Come back!

If you want to use a custom message, you can use a familiar git syntax.

hoot -m "Your custom message."

To add features, I'd recommend also using your own branch of hedwig (ruddfawcett/hedwig). You can hack on Hoot with your local copy of Hedwig, and enable development mode using the following:

DEV=true hoot

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ruddfawcett/hoot.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.