Pranesh Prakash the-solipsist
the-solipsist
/ watch-for-webpage-change-cron.sh
Created
June 6, 2023 18:28
— forked from maxme/watch-for-webpage-change-cron.sh
Set this up in a crontab to check if a webpage changed since last check. It will email you the diff when it happens.
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| checkIfPageChanged() { | |
| URL="$1" | |
| EMAIL_ADDRESS="$2" | |
| CSS_SELECTOR="$3" | |
| SILENT="$4" | |
| tmpfile1=/tmp/$(echo $URL| sha1sum | cut -d" " -f1) | |
| tmpfile2=$tmpfile1-1 | |
| curl -L --silent "$URL" -A "Maxme/1.0 (Watching for changes; https://gist.github.com/maxme/c31ffbb3cb21f3baa6e9c9e61bbe0a72)" \ |