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Please remind me of the website
I remembered someone once posted a website on LET that has the ability to monitor any webpage (including where login is required) and if the website is updated, it will send you an email with the updated content.
Could anyone please share that site again? Thanks a bunch.w
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it would take a few lines of code to write a script for this, sir
True, I guess sometimes I am just being lazy since it is almost midnight
http://www.changedetect.com/
No it won't.
Have you ever used PHP or heard of the fsock, MySQL and mail functions? Get contents from a page, store in DB, run checks daily to see if content has changed. Around 10-20 lines which would include any SQL.
are you having a giggle?
oh, and OP didn't even specify how complex it was
Generate a SHA1 hash of the content and store that instead, use curl, you don't need mysql.
Can easily be done in 5-6 lines, but yeah - use changedetect.
python ftw
http://rberenguel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Bash/PageDiffs.sh
Thanks, exactly what I am looking for.
How quick are their notifications? As in, how frequent are their checks for changes?
Anyone who have used their services?
Ah, looks like they don't support HTTPS on the free plan, and paid plan start at 25 bucks a year, now I need to do my own coding then I guess...
It depends how sensitive your detection needs to be. Some sites put the date at the top, random news feeds, social, or rotating ads. Then you consider and updated layout but the same content. You really don't want this in 5 lines of code