Site Response Checker

Author: Ivan Monteiro Cantalice

App that sends notifications when a site content changes (whole page or just specific contents with css selector queries similar to jQuery's). Has a GUI interface for Windows as well as possibility to add other clients (Web and mobile) in the future.

Motivation

I wanted a reliable way to periodically check certain websites that I configure for changes. Also to keep track of only certain portion of the page's html, since things like comments change too often and may not be interesting to send a notification for things like that. And also send an email only when something changes stating WHAT has been added/removed.

How It Works

Uses Fizzler for css selector engine, HtmlAgilityPack to manipulate html and DiffPlex to get detailed diff information about what has been added and removed. And a simple Windows GUI built with WPF.

Prerequisites

.Net Framework 4.0 (https://www.microsoft.com/pt-br/download/details.aspx?id=17851)

Deployment

Build and add the Desktop GUI's .exe to Windows's start-up folder (for windows 8/10 type WindowsKey+R and then type shell:startup). If necessary run the database migration script (MigrateSqlite.bat for the default sqlite database and MigrateSqlServer.bat for sql server). That will automagically take care of database upgrades. When building those default files are generated and can be configured as needed: ConnectionStrings.config, MailSettings.config and NhibernateConfig.config

TODO

Add a web api Create Angular ui to replace the Windows GUI built with WPF

Built With

-Fizzler for css selector engine (https://github.com/atifaziz/Fizzler)

-SharpArch for architecture and code reusability of some core components (http://sharparchitecture.github.io/)

-HtmlAgilityPack to manipulate html (https://github.com/zzzprojects/html-agility-pack)

-DiffPlex to get detailed diff information about what has been added and removed (https://github.com/mmanela/diffplex)

-NHibernate for ORM and FluentNhibernate for nice mapping configuration (http://nhibernate.info/)

-FluentMigrator for database migrations (https://github.com/fluentmigrator/fluentmigrator)

-WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) for the GUI

-C# 4.0 backend