Re: Monitor a WP website

<clippity> > So, you want something to tell you if something new has been added to > a remote site, right? > > There used to be free services that did that -- I used to monitor > competitors's web sites using such service. But, I think they > eventually stopped the free service. Here's one site that charges: > > http://www.webmetrics.com/websitemonitoring.html > > Now, if you want to do this on your own, then it should be simple > enough to use get_file_contents and put the file through a md5() > function (or use md5_file) and store the result in a dB. > > Then cron a check every so often to see if the hash has changed. If > it has, then email you notice, rehash the site and store it in the dB. > > Or, am I completely off-base in understanding what you wanted (as > I've been told lately)? tedd, (damnit, Outlook capitalized that for me, and I had to change it back...) I believe he is talking about providing such a service. Of course, I've heard of companies that outsource their entire livelihoods and charge their own customers out the nose for proxy. I'm not sure if he's trying to simply determine if a change has been made or if he is trying to notify people of the particular item that has been posted. Clarifications, Ryan? </clippity> Hey, This is strange, I didnt get Tedds message but only got to read it through yours. Sorry for the mixup, yes, was thinking of making something like this and offer it for free, its a bit of both: what you and Tedd said. I want to check if a new post has been published AND get the text+url of the post to send out to people along with the link to it. To make matters worse, i think i am a bit confused about the feeds themselves... i used to work with RSS feeds from Yahoo! and others (example: http://www.php.net/news.rss) but they used to come via XML... but now i see a lot of sites using something different via "feedburner" (example http://feeds.feedburner.com/eZeeDotse) or wordpress' default feed (example: http://www.ballz.info/feed/) um... help? :) Cheers! R