[wplug] web content monitoring script

[Lance Tost]

A quick search on freshmeat results in these potential apps:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/kwebwatch/?topic_id=57
http://www.glug.com/projects/TinyMonitor/
http://www.nongnu.org/websec/


On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Benjamin Slavin wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:15:43 -0400
> From: Benjamin Slavin <bslavin_list at wavecrazy.net>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] web content monitoring script
> 
> John,
> 
> Unfortunately I don't still have it, but I had hacked together a simple
> Perl script which was run by cron to run wget to download a website then
> compare MD5 values of the pages. If it had been updated, it would send
> an email alerting me. I believe that it still resides on some old tape
> backups that I have, but they're on the other side of the state right
> now.
> 
> Perhaps this is too simple for what you're looking to do, but it had
> worked well for me in the past, and took very little coding to
> implement.
> 
>   --Ben
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:03, John Harrold wrote:
> > hey all.
> > 
> > i've been looking around for a script that will monitor web pages and
> > trigger events when the content changes. has anyone seen something like
> > this?
> 
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