hi Erik
that was food for thought..content length may not work if
substitutions leave length unchanged..
Will look into L distance ..thanks for the suggestion
regards
harry
> Content length (which you could also get using the HTTP header "Content
> Length") won't necessarily tell you if content h
Harryos,
Den 28/09/2010 kl. 09.56 skrev harryos:
> thanks Erik,
> By 'update' I meant a major addition/removal of text(say 100
> characters).
> Initially I thought of making hash of a page and comparing it to the
> saved hash of the same page at a different moment of time..But ,this
> would
> ca
> You could also try looking at the HTTP headers for a request for e.g.
> "index.htm" using urllib. Specifically the "Expires" and "Last-Modified".
> Using headers values requires that you can trust the site on the header
> content. Web servers and caching proxies can do all sorts of things with
Den 27/09/2010 kl. 19.02 skrev harryos:
> thanks for the pointer
> I am trying to get something similar to changedetection but with
> hourly updates.
> I need to get updates from a number of sites..So I was wondering how
> to implement an updating utility
You could also try looking at the HTTP
I did a quick Google search and didn't find anything that was obviously solving
this problem. I did see companies that sell this service, and probably with
good reason.
Due to dynamic content such as ads, data from RSS feeds, and simply
auto-generated content from server-side code, it seems tha
thanks for the pointer
I am trying to get something similar to changedetection but with
hourly updates.
I need to get updates from a number of sites..So I was wondering how
to implement an updating utility
harry
On Sep 27, 9:16 pm, Shawn Milochik wrote:
> If you're asking for functionality like
If you're asking for functionality like this: http://www.changedetection.com/
Or are you looking for something to embed in your own code to know when
something has happened on your own site?
If the former, you can probably do it by scheduling a urlopen and saving its
hash, comparing it each tim
hi
Is there an opensource notification utility in python/django?I mean,
something I can use to know when a website updates a page?
If someone knows about one,please let me know
thanks
harry
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