SIRO is a joint venture between Vodafone and ESB. The aim of SIRO is to roll out high-speed, fibre-to-the-home broadband network across the Republic of Ireland. While most properties in the selected areas have access to the SIRO network, others don't have access to such benefits yet. Newly built properties in Ireland frequently fall within the latter group. Many services across the country heavily rely on the Eircode system to uniquely identify addresses. If a property doesn't have an Eircode it can be extremely difficult to avail of basic services. SIRO and most internet service providers are no exception. Having an Eircode assigned to a property is the first step towards getting access to fibre-to-the-home broadband network in an area. After that, the next logical step is to check if SIRO is available. At this point, some people find out that SIRO is not yet available at their address...
Currently, there is no way to determine what the exact SIRO rollout plans are for individual properties, so the only solution is to keep checking the availability on the SIRO website. Taking into consideration that many individuals work from home and/or have families that require decent internet connection at home, the waiting time can seem like an eternity. The reason I created this web scraper (bot) is to automate the process of continuously checking for availability related to one's Eircode.
- Fork the repository to your GitHub account
- Create a repository secret with name
EIRCODEand value set to the target Eircode:Settings>Secrets and variables>Actions>New repository secret - Enable the
checkworkflow:Actions>check>Enable workflow - Run the
checkworkflow manually and verify it worked:Actions>check>Run workflow - From now on, GitHub Actions will automatically trigger the
checkworkflow every 6 hours - Email notification will be sent in the following cases:
- SIRO is available at your address
- The
EIRCODErepository secret is not set - Unexpected error occurred (open new issues to report failures)