Utility for checking web-resource for certain changes and reporting it by email.

As a matter of fact it was made, because I had troubles to make an appointment to a doctor. My medical center has a web service which one can use to register an appointment to the doctor. But it's really hard to make it, because available time can appear at random time and I constantly missed it. So, I decided to write a small script, that will inform me, when there is an available time.

One can use this script as the base for it's own, that can inform about a web-resource changes (but be aware, not to DDOS it ;-)).

• Python v2.7
• job-scheduler like cron, that can execute script from time to time
• email address to send and receive messages

1. Place your settings in settings.py (use settings_example.py).

2. Edit parse_data() function, to match your needs.

3. Add main.py as job for job-scheduler.

• In Linux (Mac OS too, I guess) you can use cron: sudo crontab -e Add line to the end of the file, like this: */10 * * * * /usr/bin/python /home/pi/Documents/web_snoop/main.py This will launch job every 10 minutes.

• In Windows there is a command taskschd.msc to launch task-scheduler GUI.

The MIT License