Websites and APIs go down more often than we’d all like. Wouldn’t it be great to get a WhatsApp notification when your favorite or most-used services are experiencing downtime?

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up automated monitoring for your favorite services and receive WhatsApp notifications when the status of your services change. We will use Notion for the database, Twilio’s WhatsApp Business API for receiving notifications, GitHub actions for running our job on a schedule, and we’ll code everything in Python. Let’s get to it!

Prerequisites

To follow this tutorial you will need the following:

• Python 3.6+. If your operating system does not provide a Python interpreter, you can go to python.org to download an installer.
• A Twilio account. If you are new to Twilio, click here to create a free account.
• A Notion account. If you don't have one, click here to create a …