Thanks, useful stuff. -AT On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@gmail.com> wrote:
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". ;-)
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@frugalware.org/msg20141.html They recently converted that to a Flasttar function: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git;a=blob_p...
The source is somewhere in here: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob;... -- Greg