[KuhlMensch]

Doing a bit of low-stakes monitoring of webpages lately. It started (as I'm assuming it often does) with right-clicking a network request in Chrome and selecting "copy as curl"

Then graduated to JavaScript for surrounding logic e.g. data transformation

I had assumed I'd quickly give up and move to a headless browser, BUT I can't bring myself to move away from tiny CPU utilization of curl.

Throwing together a "plugin" probably takes me less than 20 minutes normally.

I'll probably have a look at using prowl to ping my phone.

And if I get more serious I'll look at auto authenticate options on npm. But I'm not sure if the overhead of maintaining a bunch of spoofy requests will be worth it.