[WEB4LIB] RE: monitoring web page changes

[gary price]

George:
Several suggestions.

1) If you want to try a client-based product I love  Webspector. It's about $30
and can monitor page changes and report precisely where on the page the new
content is located. You can run an update from once a minute to once a week.
http://www.illumix.com/webspector.htm

Another client tool that works, although it can need some serious tweaking, is
C-4-U.
It's free to download and used at: http://www.c-4-u.com


In terms of web based tools, Infominder seems to be very dependable and will check
up to once an hour.
It also illustrates where on the page the change has occurred.
http://www.infominder.com

Much the same for Watchthatpage.Com and Trackengine.Com
http://www.watchthatpage.com
http://http://www.trackengine.com

All three of these services are available at no charge.


cheers,
gary



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shirl Kennedy" <sdk at tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: monitoring web page changes


| I use SpyOnIt:
| http://www.spyonit.com/Home
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| "Web Page Changes: A Spyonit "classic." Get notified when any website
| address you provide changes in a way you specify.
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| Shirl Kennedy
| Web Guide Manager
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| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: web4lib at webjunction.org
| > [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of
| > george at library.caltech.edu
| > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 12:06 PM
| > To: Multiple recipients of list
| > Subject: [WEB4LIB] monitoring web page changes
| >
| >
| > I had been using NetMind's free Mind-It service to keep an eye on
| > publisher's websites, tracking the addition of new ejournals to their
| > offerings.  With the demise of the free service
| > <http://www.pumatech.com/mind-it_service/service.html>, I'm turning to the
| > collective wisdom of the Web4Lib community to find another avenue to,
| > hopefully, the same end.
| >
| > Any techniques which you have found to be especially successful and free
| > would be greatly appreciated.
| >
| > George S. Porter
| > Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
| > Caltech, 1-43
| > Pasadena, CA  91125-4300
| > Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
| >
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