Webnotifier is a console program that is able to check for specific web site changes and runs a user selectable program when some site change is detected.
This could be easily done with a bash script and a bunch programs, however if you would like to manage a list of web sites or add suport of prepost actions, page filtering before check,... it could be harder to maintain.
So the idea behind webnotify is to gather all the extra programs and the bash script in one piece.
Features:
- Secure HTTP, trough OpenSSL lib;
- Content filtering;
- Database of websites for checking, managed trought webnotify command line arguments;
- Supports Last-Modified header or CRC32 page change checks;
- Supports regular expression matching in page filtering (so you can search for "(sid=[A-Z0-9])" which will be replaced with 'X' before the check algorithm is applied).
- PrePost, eg. if you need to login before you can access the page you want to monitor for changes.
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