[wplug] web content monitoring script

[Lance Tost]

a quick google returns (amongst others that are probably relevant): 
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Robert L. Jeffries wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:35:33 -0400
> From: Robert L. Jeffries <rl_jeffries at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: RE: [wplug] web content monitoring script
> 
> Any idea how I could put an RSS feed from let's say www.slashdot.org or
> www.securityfocus.org onto a website of mine? 
> 
> Rob Jeffries
> rl_jeffries at comcast.net 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
> Chris
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:02 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: RE: [wplug] web content monitoring script
> 
> wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
> > Sometime in October Henry Umansky assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> > 
> >> Funny you ask, I'm monitoring my web traffic for a few of the sites
> I'm
> >> hosting with the following command:
> >> 
> >> tail -f -c 1 /www/*/logs/access_log
> >> 
> >> I just keep an SSH window open with that command running.
> > 
> > i guess i should be more specific. take this for example. say
> > i want to know when a new story is posted on slashdot:
> > 
> > http://slashdot.org/
> 
> > i can probably write something myself, but why reinvent the wheel if
> it
> > already exists. 
> 
> 
> You can grab their RSS feed (http://slashdot.org/index.rss).  There is
> software out there that will check the feeds you tell it to and then
> display
> them nicely for you.  I can't think of the url for that right now.
> 
> 
> Chris Romano
> 
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