/Periodic-Website-Scanner

This python script checks any website periodically for any text.

Primary LanguagePython

Website Monitoring Script

This script monitors a specified website for the presence of a particular text and sends a desktop notification when the text is found. It uses random user-agent headers to bypass security checks on the website.

Features

  • Periodically checks a website for a specific text.
  • Uses random user-agent headers from a file (useragents.txt) to avoid detection by security mechanisms.
  • Sends desktop notifications when the specified text is found.
  • Includes error handling and logging.
  • Sends Email once a keyword found in the web page
  • Use Gmail app password for credentials
  • Guide: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.x
  • requests library
  • bs4 library
  • plyer library

Installation

  1. Install the required Python packages:

    pip install requests beautifulsoup4 plyer

  2. Create a useragents.txt file in the same directory as your script. This file should contain different user-agent strings, one per line.

  3. Download or clone the script.

Usage

  1. Modify the url and search_text variables in the script to your desired values.

    url = "https://service2.diplo.de/rktermin/extern/appointment_showForm.do?locationCode=isla&realmId=108&categoryId=1600"
search_text = "language course"

  2. Run the script:

    python3 your_script_name.py

Replace your_script_name.py with the name of your Python file.

Script Details

The script performs the following steps:

  1. Reads a random user-agent header from useragents.txt.
  2. Sends an HTTP GET request to the specified URL using the random user-agent header.
  3. Parses the HTML content of the page and searches for the specified text.
  4. Sends emails to all receipient, once the keyword found on the web-page.
  5. Sends a desktop notification if the text is found.
  6. Repeats the check every 30 seconds.

Example useragents.txt

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0