When a news page doesn’t offer a feed

Yesterday TrueCrypt 5.0 was released. Unfortunately, they don’t use a feed to announce their news.

An old question of mine is: how to get noticed when a webpage changes? A simple but effective answer is: to check periodically its changes with something like

curl -s http://www.truecrypt.org/news.php | sha512sum

This is not a complete script but it can give you a good hint, though.

Last update: 2008-03-26

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2 Responses to “When a news page doesn’t offer a feed”


  1. 1 Pippopalla

    Ok, ma dopo che ho uno sha…. sai che roba.

    Oltrettutto quelle pagine spesso cambiano ma non contenuti per cui ci hanno più falsi positivi che altro…

  2. 2 Carlo

    Io l’ho provato: per molte pagine non hai falsi positivi. Se poi hai alternative semantiche, fatti sotto. :)

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