[arch-dev-public] Get notified on website updates
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/ -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
2009/5/15, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
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". ;-)
Great! I'll be trying it. A git repo for it, should be awesome. :-) Good job, Pierre. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@archlinux.org> wrote:
2009/5/15, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
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". ;-)
Great! I'll be trying it. A git repo for it, should be awesome. :-) Good job, Pierre.
Aye, good job. Mind setting those files to text/plain, though? :)
Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 18:39:36 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Giovanni Scafora
<giovanni@archlinux.org> wrote:
2009/5/15, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
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". ;-)
Great! I'll be trying it. A git repo for it, should be awesome. :-) Good job, Pierre.
Aye, good job. Mind setting those files to text/plain, though? :)
Here it is: http://git.archlinux.de/w3watch/ -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 18:39:36 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Giovanni Scafora
<giovanni@archlinux.org> wrote:
2009/5/15, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
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". ;-)
Great! I'll be trying it. A git repo for it, should be awesome. :-) Good job, Pierre.
Aye, good job. Mind setting those files to text/plain, though? :)
Here it is: http://git.archlinux.de/w3watch/
I sometimes use a graphical change monitoring application called Specto (http://specto.sourceforge.net/). It is in the AUR. Allan
On Friday 15 May 2009 21:16:25 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Here it is: http://git.archlinux.de/w3watch/
I added a PKGBILD to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27329 I made some small adjustments. Compared to ck4up I have the following features: * simple and stupid * plain bash * no database; just text files * using lynx we are not affected by some design changes * auto-cleanup of the cache dir * not only tell if an site was updated but also send a diff Its quite untested so feel free to try it. Imho its quite feature complete, but comments and bug reports are welcome. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:03, Pierre Schmitz<pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Its quite untested so feel free to try it. Imho its quite feature complete, but comments and bug reports are welcome.
eval "${EDITOR} ${CONFIGFILE}" You don't need the eval here. Just ${EDITOR:-vi} "$CONFIGFILE" would work. I'd use case rather than a series of "if" statements to test your parameters (or preferably use getopt)
participants (5)
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Aaron Griffin
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Allan McRae
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Daenyth Blank
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Giovanni Scafora
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Pierre Schmitz