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 # screeps_notify
+
+This project allows players to send text message alerts from inside their
+Screeps scripts.
+
+
+## Requirements
+
+This project depends on twilio for sending SMS. You will need an account, which
+will end up costing $1 a month plus an additional $0.0075 per text message.
+
+
+## Settings
+
+The settings file is a yaml file. Begin by copying the settings.dist file to
+.settings.yaml in the directory you will be calling `notify.py` from.
+
+```
+cp .settings.dist.yaml .settings.yaml
+```
+
+The settings file is in yaml and takes various authentication tokens.
+
+```yaml
+# Copy this to .settings.yaml and fill it out.
+
+# Screeps account info
+screeps_username:
+screeps_password:
+screeps_ptr: false
+
+# Your Account SID from www.twilio.com/console
+twilio_sid:
+
+# Your Auth Token from www.twilio.com/console
+twilio_token:
+
+# You SMS number from twilio. https://www.twilio.com/console/phone-numbers/dashboard
+sms_from: '+15555555555'
+
+# This should be your phone number.
+sms_to: '+15555555555'
+```
+
+
+## Running
+
+To run the program simply call notify.py from the directory your local settings
+are in. You may simply wish to add this to a cronjob.
+
+```bash
+$ ./screeps_notify/notify.py
+```
+
+## Sending Notifications from Screeps
+
+This project includes a javascript module named 'Notify' that is used to queue
+messages to be sent.
+
+```js
+Notify = require('notify.js')
+
+// Will send immediately
+Notify('Test Message')
+
+// Will send immediately, but only once every 100 ticks.
+Notify('Rate Limited Message', 100)
+```
+
+
+## Cleanup
+
+In order to make the rate limiting work copies of rate limited messages are kept
+in memory. The `Notify` module has a function to clean this up.
+
+```js
+Notify = require('notify.js')
+Notify.clean()
+```
+
+## Thanks!
+
+Special thanks to dhzu for putting together the python code to access the
+Screeps API .