sitewatcher

ruby script to watch sites for changes and alert you via slack; meant to be run with unix crontabs

what

get a message in a slack channel alerting you of updates to a site

how

clone this repo and add a secrets.yml file to that dir containting something like

target: http://jnmandal.github.io
slack_webhook: https://hooks.slack.com/services/foo/barbaz

where:

• the target is the site you want to watch
• the slack_webhook is the url to the slack incoming webhook that you set up

crontab -e

input something like:

*/1 * * * *  /bin/bash -lc 'ruby /root/to/this/script.rb'

where:

• the 1 is the interval in minutes (more info here: http://www.nncron.ru/help/EN/working/cron-format.htm)
• the bin/bash -lc is a command to make sure ruby uses the settings in your .bash_profile
• the root/to/this/script.rb is the real path to your script

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profit.