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Web page monitoring question

There are a number of different websites that let you monitor specifi web pages for any changes, such as watchthatpage.com or page2rss.com

I'm interested in the way how those sites are working, meaning how do they determine whether some web page is updated. Do they just copy all the text from the page, store it in memory and compare it later to the content of a site's page? Or maybe they look for some specific html elements and compare theirs values?

Please help me to find the answer.

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Vyacheslav Avatar asked Jun 13 '11 19:06

Vyacheslav


1 Answers

How it works: http://www.watchthatpage.com/information.jsp

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Denis Biondic Avatar answered Oct 29 '22 07:10

Denis Biondic