Surfbot Stay Current With Your Favorite Web Sites Forrest Stroud
Stay Current With Your Favorite Web Sites
Surfbot will actually take any list of URLs and check each URL for recent changes. You input the earliest date desired, run the program, and then watch as Surfbot produces a local HTML document containing links to those documents that have been updated after the desired date.
Surfbot stores its arguments in a parameter file. This way, once you customize the program, Surfbot can be run with a single mouse click or even run unattended by being invoked from a script. After a complete run, the date and time of the run is recorded and is used as the base date for the next run. This way you can be sure that you never miss an update of one of the specified URLs. At the same time, redundant retrievals are eliminated.
