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title: "Getting PagerDuty's Latest vCard with curl and awk — Nick Janetakis"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-pagerduty-s-latest-vcard-with-curl-and-awk-nick-janetakis-p830ih8qk
source_url: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/getting-pagerduty-latest-vcard-with-curl-and-awk
type: article
source: "Nick Janetakis"
published: 2026-08-04T11:31:39.371Z
updated: 2026-08-04T11:32:00.137Z
tags: ["infrastructure", "crawling", "shell", "bash", "curl"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Getting PagerDuty's Latest vCard with curl and awk — Nick Janetakis

**[Nick Janetakis](https://daily.dev/sources/nickjanetakis)** · 7 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A practical walkthrough of using curl and awk to check whether PagerDuty has updated their vCard (contact file containing all their notification phone numbers). The author creates a shell alias that fetches PagerDuty's support page, parses the HTML with awk's match function and a regex to extract the last-updated date, and runs it weekly to know when to re-download the vCard. The post explains the awk regex in detail and also outlines a more robust automated approach using checksums, a cron job, and Slack/email notifications.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/getting-pagerduty-latest-vcard-with-curl-and-awk>

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