### About This perl script is a notification tool of new question on Stack Exchange website. It supports output to terminal (STDOUT) as well as Growl (on both Mac OS X and Windows) ### Prerequist To use it you need Perl and the following Perl module - JSON - LWP::UserAgent You can do so with the following command (sudo is optional) sudo cpan -i JSON sudo cpan -i LWP::UserAgent ActivePerl for Windows comes with both module included Mac OS X users will have to install JSON module ### Growl Mac OS X and Windows users can take advantage of Growl notification. See http://growl.info/ for Mac users See http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/ for Windows users Mac users: in the Growl image disk, install growlnotify located in the Extras direcotry ### Usage Usage: SENotify.pl [-r refresh] [-g] [[-e tag] [-e tag] ... ] [[-s site] [-s site] ... ] -s,--site Site to monitor, one of serverfault | stackoverflow | superuser | meta.stackoverflow | stackapps default to serverfault,superuser can be repeated many time -g,--growl Enable growl notification (need growlnotify) Growl for mac : http://growl.info/ Growl for windows : http://www.growlforwindows.com/ -e,--excludetag Exclude question contains these tags can be repeated many time -r,--refresh Refresh rate in seconds, default to 300 seconds Example : perl SENotify.pl -g -e windows-7 -e outlook -s superuser Will show every 300 seconds new question of superuser excluding one with tag outlook or windows-7 ### Website http://code.google.com/p/senotify/ http://stackapps.com/questions/817 ### Author Jean-Edouard Babin - jeb in jeb.com.fr