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

This entry was written by Carlo, posted on February 6, 2008 at 12:18 pm, filed under English and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Pippopalla
    Posted February 6, 2008 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    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. Carlo
    Posted February 6, 2008 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

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

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