- (free) set up google sheets (not sure if this is required but that's what I do)
- (free) run an scheduled appscript bound to that sheet with regular intervals
- make it scrape the page (it's just javascript, you can do get requests, etc)
- Have it scrape a webarchive of the page you want to compare (not need to persist state or run a database, etc) and have it check the differences with the current page
- Have it send you an email if there's changes
It's totally free, takes no time to set up, and is relatively effortless. It can even send you alert on failures etc. I do something like this for my reading tracker where I crawl various sites (like amazon, etc) and RSS feeds for new releases of books/series I read and collect them in a dynamic spreadsheet.
good memories :-) I started programing with google apps script.
I think it's a great starting point for students because it's totally free, abstracts over the coplications of oauth (for small things I still prefer it because it's so effortless) and you can combine google apps in fun ways. Considering many students live out of gmail + google docs, it's great
And having a GUI version of the app makes interacting with other students easy bc they can always edit the google sheet (aka database), forms, gmail, etc
- (free) set up google sheets (not sure if this is required but that's what I do)
- (free) run an scheduled appscript bound to that sheet with regular intervals
- make it scrape the page (it's just javascript, you can do get requests, etc)
- Have it scrape a webarchive of the page you want to compare (not need to persist state or run a database, etc) and have it check the differences with the current page
- Have it send you an email if there's changes
It's totally free, takes no time to set up, and is relatively effortless. It can even send you alert on failures etc. I do something like this for my reading tracker where I crawl various sites (like amazon, etc) and RSS feeds for new releases of books/series I read and collect them in a dynamic spreadsheet.