Scrapes the City of Vancouver's website for rezoning and development applications, then notifies people of any changes via Slack and/or Bluesky. It's a simple standalone app using SQLite as a data store, runs on any major OS. Just copy the app (1 file, no dependencies) to a server and run it with a cron job, no further steps needed.
Download a binary from the releases page or build it from source (install Rust then run cargo build --release).
Run it; on the first launch it will download all ShapeYourCity projects without posting any. On subsequent launches, it will post to Slack and/or Bluesky if credentials are set via argument or environment variable.
Bluesky functionality uses Claude for summarizing projects; you will also need to specify an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY via environment variable.
❯ ./rezoning-scraper --help
Usage: rezoning-scraper [OPTIONS]
Options:
--slack-webhook-url <SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL>
A Slack Incoming Webhook URL. If specified, will post info about new+modified rezonings to this address. [env: SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=]
--bluesky-user <BLUESKY_USER>
Bluesky username. Required for posting to Bluesky [env: BLUESKY_USER=]
--bluesky-password <BLUESKY_PASSWORD>
Bluesky password. Required for posting to Bluesky [env: BLUESKY_PASSWORD=]
--api-cache
Use cached API responses (up to 1 hour old) when available
--skip-update-db
Skip updating the local database (useful for testing)
-h, --help
Print help
-V, --version
Print version
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