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#1 2008-01-18 02:04:13
- iBertus
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website change detection
Hey guys and gals,
I'm wondering what the best way to monitor a few important websites for changes might be? I need something that'll check every hour or two for changes and then send me a SMS or e-mail as notification. I found a few web services that only seem to offer day-to-day change monitoring and not hour-by-hour.
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#2 2008-01-18 02:50:07
- Allan
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Re: website change detection
How about specto in AUR
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=8367
Edit: I'm not sure it has email/SMS notification though. Probably best to set up a cron job that downloads the web page, compares it to a cached version and send a message if different. Shouldn't be too hard to script.
Last edited by Allan (2008-01-18 02:51:38)
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#3 2008-01-18 07:20:50
- phrakture
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Re: website change detection
If you want to code it, you can use libdownload to fetch a file, while comparing the 'mtime' to that on disk. 8)
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#4 2008-01-18 10:13:11
- cactus
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Re: website change detection
http://page2rss.com/
there is another one, but i cant remember the name.
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