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Old 05-30-2004, 01:33 PM   #1
robhargreaves
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app to check for changes


Hi I would like to be able to tell when a webpage is modified. This way I do not have to check back every day to see I can either have this information emailed to me or I can get it to show on my desktop or something similar?

The page is always on the same name but text changes on the page.

Maybe you have experienced a similar problem?

any ideas??

Rob
 
Old 05-30-2004, 01:41 PM   #2
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I have seen a few websites that offer this capability. If you want to do it yourself you could run a cron job to monitor the md5sum of the page:
wget -qO - http://www.google.com | md5sum

If the md5sum is different then the page has changed.
 
Old 05-30-2004, 02:02 PM   #3
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thanks david good work
 
  


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