Web Page Update Checker

[Omniferum]

I made a topic a little while ago about retooling Ketarin to check for web page updates at specified intervals and then produce a pop up you can click on to open any updated webpages with a specified browser (or system defined)

 

Webmon was suggested as a 'filler' while floele considered but it wasn't portable for me, which is a big thing.

 

Just thought i'd share my current finding for this sort of program.

 

http://pwatcher.sourceforge.net/

 

It hasn't been updated in a while but if you uniextract it and delete $pluginsdir and in the 'connections' tab select 'manually specify when on-line' and then uncheck the work offline option in the File drop down menu it will function more or less pretty good. It is an old program that needed a bit more love but for now it more or less does the trick.

 

It only supports checking for differences by looking between two scraped specific text points, but that is still more than enough for now. Scrapes the page and away ya go.