Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor • Hacker News Board

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Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

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Post by sleepingspider » Sun, Oct 26, 2014, 11:33 AM UTC

akx wrote: post #2

Typo in the footer: "Sleeping Sider"

Thank you. Fixed.

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

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Post by callesgg » Sun, Oct 26, 2014, 11:48 AM UTC

What is regarded as a change?

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

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Post by sleepingspider » Sun, Oct 26, 2014, 12:08 PM UTC

callesgg wrote: post #8

What is regarded as a change?

Text content changes. For example the site corrected a typo or published a new post.

Change to will not trigger an alert.

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

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Post by lucasjans » Sun, Oct 26, 2014, 12:24 PM UTC

Adding watch results in a white screen of nothing, no new watches added. I'm trying to monitor the Nexus 6 page :D

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_6_32GB_C...

For my use case, anything more than an hour delay wouldn't be practical. Ideally it would be up to the minute, but I'd imagine that would cause other issues for a service like this. In the past I just used a Chrome Extension. But living in Vietnam I have to make sure my VPN is up in order to see the North American content.