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Track website changes in logged in area?
So I take it there are a lot of online tools out there that can notify you if a website changes but none seems to be able to check URLs where you need to log in to see the actual site. For explanation: I wanna monitor when the courses of my University are available for signup as it is first come first serve. However the courses will appear throughout the day and in an area where you would have to be logged in in order to access which is why external trackers cant access it. I dont wanna hammer F5 either. Any ideas?
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depend on auth mechanism, if only use basic auth. you can use curl combined with cron.
Well auth would be just username and pw.
Looking into visualping atm
You can use php (curl) with cron
How would I add the auth though?
copy cookie from your browser to the code, and send it using curl.
Got everything setup with VisualPing now
Checks every 30 seconds and pings me if an update occurs! Thanks for the help everyone!
Great choice. I've been using the Chrome extension for a while and I've got a couple of servers monitoring stock
It works like a charm
Used the browser solution this time as I needed it to check every Minute but the server solution does not appear to be bad either!
I mean, I was able to buy some servers because I was monitoring the provider's stock with VisualPing