By Peter Bell

How to keep up with a site . . .

Posted At : January 7, 2007 8:54 AM | Posted By : Peter Bell
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I get almost all of my information from blogs these days, but occasionally, you need to get some information from (shock horror) a website without an XML feed . . .

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The Yahoo Search API returns a modified date on the result set which can be iterated over to determine if the site was updated. Google's Search API (now depreciated) also provided similar results. Nice find, might be interesting to play with, maybe creating a email just to handle this and have a server bot monitor the email address.
# Posted By Christopher Wigginton | 1/7/07 10:44 AM
Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the Yahoo! API feedback. I actually particularly like the idea of the custom email account. Guess you could also write a script to do this - someone posted a diff tool the other day you could use, but I can't immediately remember who . . .
# Posted By Peter Bell | 1/7/07 10:55 AM
Hmmm, well 24 hours later it didn't send me a single notification, so either it's getting eaten by my spam filter or it doesn't work. Just an FYI.
# Posted By Peter Bell | 1/8/07 9:09 AM
It worked eventually - just a little slower than hoped for.
# Posted By Peter Bell | 1/10/07 12:27 PM
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