ruby script to watch sites for changes and alert you via slack; meant to be run with unix crontabs
get a message in a slack channel alerting you of updates to a site
clone this repo and add a secrets.yml file to that dir containting something like
target: https://popesites.com/
slack_webhook: https://hooks.slack.com/services/foo/barbaz
where:
- the
targetis the site you want to watch - the
slack_webhookis the url to the slack incoming webhook that you set up
crontab -e
input something like:
*/1 * * * * /bin/bash -lc 'ruby /root/to/this/script.rb'
where:
- the
1is the interval in minutes (more info here: http://www.nncron.ru/help/EN/working/cron-format.htm) - the
bin/bash -lcis a command to make sure ruby uses the settings in your .bash_profile - the
root/to/this/script.rbis the real path to your script
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