What's this?
I needed a tool that constantly tracks changes occurring on a webpage, so I did one.
I know there are existing services that do exactly this, but I have no control over it, and most of the time they become paid solutions after a while.
Current state: WIP, working, must test
Requirements
- A Pushover account
- Create a Pushover app
How to use?
- Modify the
conf/example_config.ronfile to your convenience.- Rename
example_config.rontoconfig.ron.
- Rename
- Run (as a daemon/service or not) on a server or on your computer.
- It should now send your push notifications whenever a page changes.
How does it work?
A first pass is made to retrieve the initial state of the webpage ("base"), then this base is used to check upon ulterior checks of the same webpage.
Why Rust?
I know Rust would be taking a cannon to get the mosquito (Node or Python would perfectly do this job), but I'm currently trying to learn Rust and get accustomed to its ecosystem, that's why I chose this language.
Future features
- The possibility to connect with other push notification services
- Being able to connect to many PN services at once
- The possibility to send a screenshot with the push notification (if the PN service allows it)
- Target multiple pages
- Different timeouts for each target web page
- The possibility to force the re-creation of a "base"
- Know what part(s) of the page changed
- A GUI?
Todo
- Test more thoroughly
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