On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:13:09PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hello, > > maybe you are familar with the following problem: > > You want to get notified when there is a new upstream release. The problem is > that not all projects offer rss feeds or an announce mailing list. And if they > do they are sometimes too verbose or don't cover the updates you like. > > So needed something to watch a certain website and tell me if anything > changed. There are a lot of webservices, firefox plugins etc..; but they are > all too complicated and just don't offer what I need. > > So I though it would be quite easy to write something myself using cron and > lynx. So I after a few minutes I had a simple Bash script whih just does the > job. > > It loops through an url list and prints the diff to the previous run. Running > this by cron I get an email including the diff everytime one of the observed > websites are updated. > > Maybe someone else has some use for it, too. And perhaps I'll even create a > git repo for it; though I don't think I should add much more "features". ;-) > > http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/src/w3watch/ > Frugalware has been doing similar stuff for a long while but they have an up2date field in their build scripts. See for example: http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg20141.html They recently converted that to a Flasttar function: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git;a=blob_plain;f=source/apps-extra/cksfv/FrugalBuild;hb=HEAD The source is somewhere in here: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob;f=source/include/util.sh;h=68f6f12fe25aa3a1e207a018e0bd63678562c4e6;hb=HEAD -- Greg
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