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RaptorRed

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Registered: 2009-03-26

Posts: 30

Looking for a way to monitor forums for a text string.

Hi as the subject says I'm looking for a way to monitor various forums for a list of text strings and give me a link to the post. I'm have tried googling but cant find anything specific enough I've tried looking at methabot but am unsure as to if this is the right sort of program, anyone with any experience or ideas in this area would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance.

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Looking for a way to monitor forums for a text string.

you could write a daemon method which would, every so often, search the forums for the keyword.

Better yet, you can use google's "site: bbs.archlinux.org keyword format to do your search.

But, be sure not to do it too often. If you keep banging a particular forum website too often, your ip might get banned.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Looking for a way to monitor forums for a text string.

> I'm have tried googling but cant find anything specific enough
So "site: bbs.archlinux.org keyword" isn't enough for you?

RaptorRed

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Registered: 2009-03-26

Posts: 30

Re: Looking for a way to monitor forums for a text string.

thanks for the advice sorry for being unclear

site:www.example.com keyword

works fine but ive got 10 or so forums to check and 20 odd phrases, so some form of scripting would be nice, of course i would only check once a day or less dont want to annoy anyone.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Looking for a way to monitor forums for a text string.

"some form of scripting"? You can do it anyway you want it: shell, perl, python - anything will do :-)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: Looking for a way to monitor forums for a text string.

How about this google syntax + wget+grep/awk/sed+cronjob?

RaptorRed

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Registered: 2009-03-26

Posts: 30

Re: Looking for a way to monitor forums for a text string.

thanks everyone sorry about the noobish request will get to work scripting