scheduling Scenario 5 — Auction Bid Monitor with Notification

Written by RTILA X Engineering Team

Advanced ~10 min

Prerequisites: scheduling/3 scheduling/4

What You'll Learn

Monitor scheduled jobs and handle failures

Real-World Use Case

Building resilient automation systems

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Auction Bid Monitor

Record bid metrics, wait for the update, and alert on a new bid.

Vintage Watch Collection

Current Bids: 12$450.002h 34m remaining

EXPECTED OUTPUT

Auction Metrics

{
  "title": "Vintage Watch Collection",
  "initial_bid_count": 12,
  "updated_bid_count": 13,
  "initial_price": "$450.00",
  "updated_price": "$475.00"
}

RTILA X PROJECT JSON

RTILA X Automation Project

auction-bid-monitor.json

{
  "name": "Auction_Bid_Monitor",
  "settings": {
    "urls": [
      "https://learn.rtila.com/scenarios/scheduling/5"
    ]
  },
  "commands": [
    {
      "command": "get_text",
      "params": {
        "selector": "css=.bid-count",
        "output_variable": "initial_bids"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "get_text",
      "params": {
        "selector": "css=.current-bid",
        "output_variable": "initial_price"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "wait",
      "params": {
        "timeout": 5000
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "get_text",
      "params": {
        "selector": "css=.bid-count",
        "output_variable": "updated_bids"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "get_text",
      "params": {
        "selector": "css=.current-bid",
        "output_variable": "updated_price"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "if",
      "params": {
        "condition": {
          "type": "script",
          "expression": "parseInt(String(document.querySelector('.bid-count').textContent).replace(/[^0-9]/g, ''), 10) > 12"
        },
        "then": [
          {
            "command": "comment",
            "params": {
              "text": "Send Telegram notification: new bid detected"
            }
          }
        ],
        "else": [
          {
            "command": "comment",
            "params": {
              "text": "No new bids"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Bid monitoring can be scheduled to check an auction periodically. This example records the initial bid metrics, waits five seconds, reads the updated values, and alerts if the bid count increased.

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