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user16655
user16655

Reputation: 1941

Automatic job to check if specific element in html page has been updated

I want to 'surveil' a page on a website, and get an alert (preferably an email) each time a specific element on the html page is updated. What is the best way to achieve this? I would like the job to run on an ubuntu machine.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 68

Answers (1)

cwang
cwang

Reputation: 1104

you can use cron task to schedule a script to be execute regularly

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-cron-to-automate-tasks-on-a-vps

so it would be like

* * * * * /path/to/script

and you can write your own script to fetch the website content, check element and send email

Upvotes: 1

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