If the chat room is available via regular IRC, you could always set up an
IRC bot. These are free to run and can log activity. The downside of this
is that you need the permission of the IRC Server's admins to run the bot.
Just a thought.
Hatton Humphrey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry W. Virden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:09 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Cold Fusion -> Web site Monitor
>
>
> Re: monitoring a web site for changes
>
> I am actually looking for a somewhat similar functionality.
> Unfortunately, I need a 'free' solution.
>
> The difference in what I am seeking is this - the web site
> is a specific one I want to monitor. It is a chatroom CGI,
> and the monitor program I am seeking would create 'transcripts'
> of the discussions (either breaking the transcripts by date or
> by size; I'm not particular about which).
>
> This chat room sits there and goes 24x7. A normal web
> monitoring program such as Mallory Woods described would not be
> sufficient because normally an app like this 'snapshots' the
> state of the page at a particular time of day or nite.
>
> In this case, the app almost needs to become a webscraping
> bot, perhaps even signed 'onto' the room.
>
> Anyone know of anything up to the challenge?
>
>
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> Larry W. Virden <URL: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <URL: http://www.purl.org/net/lvirden/>
> Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this
> posting
> should be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
>
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