Forum searching automatically

goldeneye243

Not sure if what I am looking for exists but here goes....

I was wondering if there is a way to search a website - eg a for sale/trade forum, for keywords on a regular basis and be emailed the results.

I keep seeing items that I might be interested in buying that were snapped up before I get chance to look at them as I cant really browse the web at work.

Cheers!

viru.doshi

Hmm, thats sounds like a nifty little tool. I finish my exams in a month, i'll add this to my list of projects.

Generally, something like this is possible, but how easy it is depends on the website. For example, amazon have a web services api, which a developer can tap into to search the amazon database, which returns a specially formatted set of results usable by the developer. *wonders if MSE has such an api :P*

Would others also like to have something like this?

zappahey

I use a php script with libcurl to do something very similar. I plan to do one to check the various bargain forums on an hourly basis (or less) but I'm a bit short of round tuits at the moment.

howalsh

This might help
http://www.google.co.uk/alerts?hl=en
You can specify the site in the same way you can in any google search.