[Q] website watcher for Linux?

[Luis]

What's wrong with Firefox? Just subscribe to a website and it will
tell you when it changes (don't ask me where the feature is now, i
can't find it. mozilla has it, so, perhaps you can install an
extension in Fx to activate it)

On 6/30/06, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
> Ken N9VV <n9vv at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have a favorite Windows application called WebsiteWatcher. It
> > checks websites for updates. It works like a dream under Windoze and
> > often alerts me to software updates or important changes on a vendor's
> > website. I can't find anything similar under Linux. I thought I had
> > seen a Perl module in the distant past, but can not find it now. Any
> > ideas?
>
> ,----[ ~/bin/pkgdesc websec ]
> | Package: websec
> | Description: Web Secretary - Web page monitoring software
> |  A visual Web page monitoring software. However, it goes
> |  beyond the normal functionalities offered by such software. Not only
> |  does it detect changes based on content analysis (instead of date/time
> |  stamp or simple textual comparison), it will email the changed page to
> |  you with the new content highlighted.
> `----
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