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Q: how to get updates from web pages w/o RSS feed? A: XPath + cron or Jenkins job

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johayek
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  • sadly enough even now in 2016 a lot of web pages are not XHTML conform, but getting them fairly conform is not that expensive: use “xmlstarlet fo –html –recover“
  • get the (cron or) Jenkins job to save the current page content in the job’s workspace
  • let the Jenkins job compare the current to the last state …
  • … and message you through XMPP, if there’s a change

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