The Forex Agent is an open-source app designed to fetch the daily forex rate of a certain currency pair and send it as a WhatsApp message. The agent runs entirely on DBOS cloud and is scheduled to execute daily at 9:00 AM using Twilio for WhatsApp notifications. This project is lightweight, cost-effective, and ideal for staying updated with forex rates.
- Fetches JPY to INR forex rates from Google Finance via web scraping.
- Sends daily WhatsApp alerts using Twilio API.
- Scheduled execution at 9:00 AM every day using DBOS cloud.
- Fully automated and open-source.
- Twilio : Provides programmable communication tools for making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving text messages, and performing other communication functions using its web service APIs
- DBOS Cloud : Deploys the app and executes the forex alert communication based on the specified time intervals
- Python: Version 3.8 or higher.
- Twilio Account:
- Sign up for Twilio and set up a WhatsApp sandbox.
- Get your Twilio Account SID and Auth Token.
- DBOS Cloud Account:
- Create an account on DBOS cloud to host and schedule the script.
- Dependencies:
- requests
- beautifulsoup4
- twilio
For questions or support, please contact:
- Name: Tejdeep Reddy Hunabad
- Email: teja1494reddy@gmail.com
- GitHub: tejdeep94