Radio-alert is a project mainly written in Ruby, it's free.
Send a text when your favorite band is on the radio
Send an SMS alert when your favorite band is playing on the radio.
Radio alert polls radio stations using the Yes API and sends SMS alerts using the Twilio API.
I really like the radio. These is something special about doing something collectively with thousands of other people. Plus it's really simple.
I also wanted to play with the Twilio and Yes APIs.
Very beta but works. I wrote this code back when I knew even less than I know now. For some reason, using the existing Twilio gems wasn't working as quickly as I had hoped. That said, I learned something using curl.
This script is a bit difficult to kill. Ctrl-C won't do it--you're going to have to kill the process via PID.
This may be interesting as a simple web app--pick a few artists (or songs) and a few stations and sign up for some alerts.
A shout out to Yes, Twilio, Github and radio stations everywhere!