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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

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.

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,385

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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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phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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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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cactus

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Registered: 2004-05-25

Posts: 4,622

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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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