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yes,
papaScott, increasing numbers of sources I find interesting don't ping weblogs.com or have even heard or give a damn about it.
I guess it's back to SpyOnIt and such, and I might even whip up a smal personal WebWatch.php someday, need it for my
NewsTank anyway.
have a list of URLs to check
regularly go thru list, fetch each url
compare MD5 of return with 'last-MD5'
when different, mark URL as 'changed'
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only one problem: pages normaly 'change' very often without their 'contents' actually changing (dates, blogrolls etc.) so there needs to be a more detailed check here... a 'diff' could help, but I'd not like to rely on external programms being present (simple PHP hosting should be all that is needed)
[update:] as Scott points out, a reasonable amount of said Sites have an RSS-feed which is a good thing to watch for change in content.
I'm thinking about the MD% approach on per-item basis, so as to enable the 'n-new posts in feed' stuff for the RSS reader. (the WebWatcher would borrow code and freshness-data from the RSS reader)
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Martin Spernau
Big things to come (TM) 30th Dez 2002
