[lug] Semi-OT: Advice on page monitor tools

[Davide Del Vento]

What do you mean exactly by "monitor"? Why a simply wget (and at most
diff among the different downloaded pages, nothing else) would not
work?
Bye,
;Dav

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:32, Craig Talbert <craig.talbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like to set something up to monitor a set of web pages for changes
> (about 200). I've been looking at the services that do this, and most
> of them either don't have the features I need or are a little too
> expensive (e.g. changedetect.com does it all but is $40.00 a month).
>
> I need something that will support form submission as well as HTTP
> authentication and cookies. I realize I could hack something together
> with wget, or lynx, or expect and all... but, I'd much rather use
> something that all ready works.
>
> - Craig
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