Program or website which notifys me when a web page has been updated? :)

salthegal · 26 March 2007 at 10:47PM

Hi all

,

Hope someone in the know can help me. Not sure if these programs or websites exist. Basically Im looking for a website or perhaps a program which will notify me immediately via email when a certain webpage on a website has been updated or changed?

Not sure if this is possible, hope someone can help. Any advice whould be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Sal :T

albertross_2 · 26 March 2007 at 10:59PM

http://changedetection.com/

[Deleted User] · 26 March 2007 at 11:05PM

Hi,

I remember seeing something that you're looking for years ago, but can't now remember.

Anyway did a search and found this, might help, though says only notifies you once a day with all your updates.

Have a look here as well.

Good luck.

salthegal · 26 March 2007 at 11:30PM

thanks for the help guys

,

not sure if these website provide instantaneous emails. Looks like they send an update (i.e. daily etc)

Im basically want to watch a site which sells out of something rather fast, hence when it comes into stock (and the page is updated) I want to know right away (within a few mins).

Cant seem to find anything suitable. Was hoping there would be some kind of monitoring program which i could download and run using my internet connection.

Any pointers is greatly appreciated.

skr00ge · 27 March 2007 at 9:03AM

There is a linux command "wget" which could be used in an automated script to get certain details. You could automate this script to run every 10 minutes and compare price to a preset level. You could then trigger an email script to send you an email. If really clever you could sign up to a txt alert for an email hitting your account. It would take 30 minutes or so scripting to set all this up.

However...

Wget works fine on https://www.bbc.co.uk but using it on https://www.ebuyer.co.uk results in no output.

Websites can choose whether to accept these kind of robot connections (robots.txt) . Ebuyer chooses not to. This stops everyone from setting up their own robots/crawlers from bringing the web to a grinding halt. They probably accept request from major search engines/price comparisons etc but not from me.

Kelkoo does accept wget requests but I bet they update their prices less frequently then every hour.

Pay a yoof to do the checking for you or get a 3G phone?

Program or website which notifys me when a web page has been updated? :)

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