Hi everyone,
I’d like to hear some ideas for my use case.
I’d like to use HA to collect and display some information I’m scraping from the web. The information is a daily menu from a restaurant in my area.
I’ve immediately excluded the Scrape platform since the data requires a little bit of looping on the selectors, so I’ve ended up with a python script using BeautifulSoup.
Now I have a python script that does what I wanted and I was thinking about what would be the best way to plug this in HA.
I’ve considered multiple ways:
a. command_line
sensor
b. pyscript
c. custom_component
(eventually)
But I’ve faced a blocking issue from the very with solution a
, the simplest one:
my data exceeds the limit of 255 characters.
I’ve read that I attributes are not bound to this 255 chars limit, and that could be a way, but facing this limit made me wonder if I’m taking the wrong approach and I shouldn’t create a Sensor at all.
Ideally, I’d like to do multiple things with this data, although I haven’t yet decided the details:
- display the data in the UI
- send the data (or a subsection of it to Telegram)
- send the data to Alexa (or ask Alexa to read the data)
Do you have any ideas on how I should approach this task?