[LUNI] Re: Pseudo RSS

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Jay Strauss wrote:
> On 7/24/07, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a product/tool/script that could tell me when a
>> web page has changed?  Sort of like RSS, but this site doesn't have
>> RSS.
>>
>> I need to watch this page on a bulletin board where fairly
>> infrequently someone posts a message that I need to know has been
>> posted.  I hate having to remind myself to check all the time, and the
>> site has no provision to email.
>>
>> It'd be nice if I could have some utility do it for me.
> 
> 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)
> 

debian has samidare[1] and websec[2], and the websec page shows some 
"competitors" (links on page)

KWebWatch
urlchange
wrep
WebReporter

[1] http://a-k-r.org/samidare/
[2] http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/

-barry