Cronrss
Old style RSS feed
http://freaknet.org/alpt/src/utils/cronrss
It verifies if the web page pointed by a given URL has changed.
If it has, cronrss will send a notice email to you.
The URL list is kept in the ~/.cronrss/url text file (one URL per line).
It is very useful to use URLs which point to rss feeds.
*** Usage:
1) Put all the URLs you want to check in the ~/.cronrss/url text file (one
URL per line).
2) Run cronrss
cronrss [-d [seconds]]
If the `-d' option is specified, it will check periodically the URLs.
You can specify its frequency in seconds (default is 1800s = 30min)
cronrss update
Each time you modify the url_list, you have to run `cronrss update`
*** Examples:
echo http://www.hackaday.org >> ~/.cronrss/url
cronrss update
cronrss -d
# From this point on, whenever hackday.org changes you will get an
email
# which shows you the text differences
# Since hackaday has a rss feed it is better to use this URL instead:
# http://www.hackaday.com/rss.xml
PS: the idea of Cronrss was initially published on Idiki:
http://idiki.dyne.org/wiki/Cronrss
AlpT (@freaknet.org)
Links
http://freaknet.org/alpt/src/utils/cronrss