Tracking changes to a website
Tracking changes to a website is helpful to web developers and users. Checking a website manually in intervals is really hard and impractical. Hence, we can write a change tracker running at repeated intervals. When a change occurs, it can play an audio or send some other notification. Let us see how to write a basic tracker for the website changes.
Getting ready
Tracking changes in terms of Bash scripting means fetching websites at different times and taking the difference by using the diff
command. We can use curl
and diff
to do this.
How to do it...
Let's write a Bash script by combining different commands, to track changes in a web page:
#!/bin/bash #Filename: change_track.sh #Desc: Script to track changes to webpage ...
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