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

salthegal
salthegal Posts: 422 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
Hi all :p,

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

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  • albertross_2
    albertross_2 Posts: 8,932 Forumite
    http://changedetection.com/
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    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
    salthegal Posts: 422 Forumite
    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
    skr00ge Posts: 121 Forumite
    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?
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