Get notified when your Taiwan Gold Card Application status changes

taiwan-gold-card-status-check.sh

#!/bin/bash

LAST_DUMP_FILE=./last_dump
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M` 
FILENAME="dump_"${DATE}
EMAIL='xxx@gmail.com'


function check_status () {
    ## Each curl is specific to a given user. You can get the proper curl via the Chrome dev tool in network tabs -> copy -> copy curl 
    curl 'https://coa.immigration.gov.tw/coa-frontend/todo/tab-1?_=1623997345783'   -H 'Connection: keep-alive'   -H 'Pragma: no-cache'   -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache'   -H 'sec-ch-ua: " Not;A Brand";v="99", "Google Chrome";v="91", "Chromium";v="91"'   -H 'Accept: */*'   -H 'DNT: 1'   -H 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest'   -H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0'   -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.101 Safari/537.36'   -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin'   -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors'   -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty'   -H 'Referer: https://coa.immigration.gov.tw/coa-frontend/home'   -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,fr;q=0.8,zh-CN;q=0.7,zh;q=0.6,ru;q=0.5,ja;q=0.4,zh-TW;q=0.3'   -H 'Cookie: JSESSIONID=XXXXXXXXX'   --compressed > $FILENAME
}

check_status

if test -f "$LAST_DUMP_FILE"; then
    echo "Comparing..."
    if diff $FILENAME $LAST_DUMP_FILE  &> /dev/null ; then
        echo "Files are the same"
    else
        echo "Files changed:"        
        OUTPUT=$(diff $FILENAME $LAST_DUMP_FILE 2>&1)
        echo $OUTPUT
        echo "Gold Card Application changed: $OUTPUT" | mail -s "Gold Card Application status just changed" ${EMAIL}
    fi
    cp $FILENAME $LAST_DUMP_FILE
else
    echo "$LAST_DUMP_FILE NOT exists. Creating the file. We don't need to diff"
    cp $FILENAME $LAST_DUMP_FILE 
fi