Reverse engineering · Python
2023
Parking watcher
The office parking app wouldn't tell me when a spot opened up. So I made it tell me.
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A small script with no UI — the “interface” is a Telegram ping when a spot frees up.
A small problem, met with a disproportionately satisfying fix.
What it does
Finding a free spot in the building was a daily guessing game. This watches for one and pings me on Telegram the moment something opens up, so I stop circling and just go.
How it works
I reverse-engineered the parking app's private API, then wrote a small Python script that polls it on a schedule, watches for availability, and fires off a Telegram message when a space appears.
Nothing clever — just a stubborn refusal to accept a solved problem staying unsolved.
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