jordandalton/laravelduskautopay

How I used Laravel Dusk to automatically pay my bills.

Auto Payments Using Laravel Dusk

Okay, so Laravel dusk is pretty amazing. The other day I was making my utility payment online which I encountered my monthly frustration of "Why don't these fools have an autopayment option?" If only I could emulate my steps to making the payment. Then it dawned on me—I could use Laravel Dusk!

It took me about 15 minutes to write the browser test that submits the payment (see UtilityPayment.php).

The next step was to setup my Mac to run php artisan dusk. To do this we will use Automator which comes with all Macs

Step #1: Open Automator, Select "Application"

Step #2: Select "Run Apple Script"

Step #3: Enter the following code, then save the application. I called mine "Pay."

on run {input, parameters}
	tell application "Terminal"
		activate
		do script with command "cd ~/Code/Projects/dusk && php artisan dusk"
	end tell
end run

Step #4: Create calendar alarm

Step #5: Select "Launch Application"

Step #6: Select the the Pay application we created.

Step #7: Go into your calendar and adjust your calendar event to match.

That's it!.

laravelduskautopay's Issues

absolute url must be set in .env file

I don't know if this is a new feature of Laravel Dusk 2.0 but it took me a while to figure out why I couldn't reach an external website using Dusk and basing it off your Payment page example

turns out the only way I could get it to work is by setting the APP_URL to the absolute url