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sleepingspider

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About sleepingspider

developer of https://sleepingspider.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8542731

    Gandi.net. Their system is good to use. First year free SSL, renewal is $16. Free basic email hosting.

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    Comment #8531059

    It's only for HTML. But if you have a need for JavaScript files, just let me know, it's technically possible, I just don't understand the use case yet.

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    Comment #8519338

    > Does it exclude or include comments... if I watch a blogpost with comments will every new comment cause an alert or only blogpost changes? I don't have a good solution for this p…

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    Comment #8519334

    > Does it understand twitter so if I watch a user, it only alerts me of tweets, not e.g. a change in the number of followers? What do you think if I provide a numeric filter option…

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    Comment #8519317

    > Does it diff binary data.. for example, if I ask it to watch an image url will it hash the image and notify me when it gets updated? Can you elaborate in what case you might want…

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    Comment #8519301

    Just added HTTP authentication support.

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    Comment #8513789

    Thank you. You are right. Your rewording is so much better and professional. All suggestions taken. Thank you very much.

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    Comment #8513656

    Thank you guys! I've been working on issues and just got the time to add a FAQs page on the site. See https://sleepingspider.com/faqs for most answers. It's an early product launch…

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    Comment #8511266

    The product doesn't have a twitter as the name was occupied by others. :) Personally I don't use twitter neither. Email me if you need to contact.

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    Comment #8511258

    Problem fixed. All failed probes retried. Thanks!

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    Comment #8511089

    The probe received a 403 forbidden error from google. I realized that google store forbid crawls. So a simple http request won't work. I was not aware of this situation before. I w…

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    Comment #8510856

    Text content changes. For example the site corrected a typo or published a new post. Change to will not trigger an alert.

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    Comment #8510810

    Thank you. Fixed.

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    Comment #8510809

    It will try to detect your time zone with JavaScript. If that doesn't work, it falls back to Los Angeles and the user may contact the support to update this setting.

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    Comment #8497439

    Strange. As an ruby programmer, I never had such a need.