[sword-devel] Watching websites where our source texts come from?

David Haslam d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk
Wed Jan 13 08:21:59 MST 2010


Another useful service is  http://www.changedetection.com/
changedetection.com 

I monitor a few places like this, including this 
http://www.ibt.org.ru/english/bible/info_bible_en.htm IBT page .

David


Gregory Hellings wrote:
> 
> If the websites have some sort of syndicated feed, like RSS or Atom or  
> the like, it would be easy to write a basic script to pull the latest  
> info from that. Likewise if there is regular version information in a  
> web-accessible version of the file as well as the module's config file  
> on the lines of SourceVersion=1.7.6 or SourceDate=1999-10-06 or  
> something like that.
> 
> If that sort of information is not available in a structured way, then  
> tracking updates to the upstream material can become far more difficult.
> 
> --Greg
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 7:37 AM, David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk>  
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Do we have any system in place to monitor for changes the websites  
>> where our
>> module source texts from from?
>> e.g. When the text itself has been updated.
>>
>> Or do we rely on ad hoc knowledge and reporting by interested  
>> volunteers?
>>
>> David
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