A cron that watches the ChargePoint stations near you and emails you the instant a charger frees up.
Get an email the moment a ChargePoint charger near you becomes available. Name a location and radius and this watches the stations around it from your own Google account, emailing you the second one flips from in-use to open — so you can claim the spot before someone else does. Filter to free chargers and to Level 2 or DC Fast, and limit alerts to your work hours. Runs on the schedule you pick, and every opening is logged to a Sheet you own. Independent tool — not affiliated with or endorsed by ChargePoint, Inc.
A background job on a daily trigger — no surface to visit.
Connect Google, configure, and spin it up — it lives in your Drive. No servers, no subscription.
What lands in your Google account
A Drive folder
Holds this app — yours to browse, share, or delete.
A Google Sheet
The app’s database — rows you own.
An Apps Script web app
Deployed as you — a URL plus a daily trigger.
What you configure
- Alerts onMaster switch. Turn off to pause all checks and alerts without deleting the app; turn back on to resume.
- Location to watch *An address or place near the chargers you care about — e.g. your workplace, "Whole Foods Redwood City", or "Denver Public Library". Coordinates as "lat, lon" or a ChargePoint map link also work.
- Search radius (miles)How far around the location to watch. Keep it tight so you only hear about chargers you would actually drive to.
- Alert email *Where the "a charger just opened up" email is sent.
- Only watch free chargersOn: ignore paid stations and only alert on free ones. Off: watch every station in range.
- Charger levelAny watches all speeds. Level 2 is the common workplace/overnight speed; DC Fast is high-power road-trip charging.
- Only these stations (optional)Leave blank to watch every charger in range. Enter text to narrow to stations whose name or address contains it.
- Check frequencyHow often ChargePoint is polled. More frequent means you hear about an opening sooner; every minute is the fastest but the heaviest on ChargePoint, so use it only when you are actively waiting for a spot.
- Only alert on weekdaysOn: no alerts on Saturday or Sunday.
- Only alert fromStart of the hours you want alerts. Leave "from" and "until" the same to be alerted any time of day.
- Only alert untilEnd of the hours you want alerts. Leave "from" and "until" the same to be alerted any time of day.
Permissions
Beyond its own Sheet, this app requests script.send_mail, script.external_request, script.scriptapp. You authorize the script once, after it deploys into your account.