[LUNI] Re: Pseudo RSS

[Joe Digilio]

On 8/1/07, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So regarding the above, I played with wget and md5sum as people
> suggested.  The problem I'm having is that: While the page seems the
> same to the eye, there seems to be constantly changing content, some
> sort of IDs change with every page request.
>
> I'm using:
>
> wget --quiet -O -
> http://www.playalinda.com/members/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=6 | md5sum
>
> If you run the command twice in a row, the checksum is different (even
> though I can't see any difference when I see the page on a browser).
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion to address this?  (other than parsing
> the entire page and finding the message titles)


Try links or lynx instead:
links -dump http://www.playalinda.com/members/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=6 | md5sum

lynx -dump http://www.playalinda.com/members/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=6 | md5sum

-Joe