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Author Topic: IDEA: something like website-watcher ..  (Read 9173 times)

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IDEA: something like website-watcher ..
« on: April 30, 2005, 06:37 AM »
an app that downloads specified websites (maybe multiple instances for multiple websites) and checks after some time whether the site has changed or not ...
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« Last Edit: May 01, 2005, 12:12 AM by mouser »

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Re: IDEA: something like website-watcher ..
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2005, 06:57 AM »
i've actually thought about doing this..
it would be easy to make a very minimal little tray tool that watched a certain page for changes..
the only question is whether there is really a need for such a program given the other web page change monitoring tools.. i wonder if the free ones listed in our wsw review do this already..

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Re: IDEA: something like website-watcher ..
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2005, 09:31 AM »
A service like ChangeDetection.com is better than this app.

1) You are notified vai email.
2) You don't need to keep a program running (even if in the background)
3) Someone else is worrying about it.

Cheers!
VEVOLA

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Re: IDEA: something like website-watcher ..
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2005, 12:41 PM »
but changedetection checks the entire webpage .. without any rules etc  .. but i think i will find some good freeware tools here: http://www.snapfiles...isctools/fwmoni.html .. thanks anyways ..
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Re: IDEA: something like website-watcher ..
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2005, 04:10 PM »

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Re: IDEA: something like website-watcher ..
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2005, 01:55 AM »
well .. i've testet *all* the freeware .. the trials .. and the best tool is definitely http://www.wysigot.com .. they have a freeware and a pro version ..
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