JobNotifier

Polls GitHub repos tracking Canadian tech internships and sends new postings to Discord.

Monitored Repos

• negarprh/Canadian-Tech-Internships-2026
• hanzili/canada_sde_intern_position

Setup

npm install
cp .env.example .env
# Add your Discord webhook URL to .env

Usage

# Seed state (skip initial flood of notifications)
npm start -- --seed

# Run the notifier (polls every 15 min)
npm run dev        # local (loads .env)
npm start          # cloud (env vars injected)

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Description
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL	Yes	Discord channel webhook URL
GITHUB_TOKEN	No	Increases GitHub rate limit (60/hr to 5000/hr)
POLL_INTERVAL_MINUTES	No	Poll interval in minutes (default: 15)

Deploy (Railway)

1. Connect repo on railway.app
2. Add DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL in service Variables
3. Set start command to npm start -- --seed, let it run once
4. Change start command back to npm start