Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
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Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#2Cool concept, but name collision: Sieve has been the name of a server-side mail filtering language for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_langua...
Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#3Hello HN! I am excited to show Sieve. Its in alpha state and under active development.
Would appreciate your feedback. Checkout Visual Selector used to let user filter content from a webpage.
Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#4Cool concept, but name collision: Sieve has been the name of a server-side mail filtering language for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_langua...
Glad that you liked the concept. Wasn't aware of the unfortunate name collision. I am open to suggestions. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#5Cool concept, but name collision: Sieve has been the name of a server-side mail filtering language for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_langua...
Glad that you liked the concept. Wasn't aware of the unfortunate name collision. I am open to suggestions. Thanks!
well, a sieve sifts, how about sifter?
Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#6Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#7Cool concept, but name collision: Sieve has been the name of a server-side mail filtering language for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_langua...
This is exactly where my thoughts went when seeing the name, as well as the title on this submission.
Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
well, a sieve sifts, how about sifter?
Thanks. I like sifter. Going to check if it is available.
Probably want to avoid that as well - https://sifterapp.com - #1 Google result for sifter...
Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#9This is very awesome! The implementation is different to what I expected (or to what I would have done).
They seem to run a browser on the server and let the user interact with it to choose DOM elements to monitor for changes. I would have just taken a screenshot (perhaps with http://urlbox.io/ or perhaps with CutyCapt) and allowed the user to draw boxes over the screenshot. Then repeatedly screenshot the site and whenever the contents of that box changes, alert the user.
The Sieve method has the advantage that you are able to tell the user what the new text is. The screenshot method is significantly simpler.
EDIT: So, in startup terms, the screenshot method could be the MVP :). Provided, of course, that it is considered "viable" not to know the text. If I were a user I would consider it viable - it is still a vast improvement over having to check the site manually.
Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
#10This is very awesome! The implementation is different to what I expected (or to what I would have done). They seem to run a browser on the server and let the user interact with it to choose DOM elements to monitor for changes. I would have just taken a screenshot (perhaps with http://urlbox.io/ or perhaps with CutyCapt) and allowed the user to draw boxes over the screenshot. Then repeatedly screenshot the site and wh…
Thanks for the great feedback. :)
Getting started would certainly be much simple when using screenshot or page HTML for comparison. Sieve could do that too! More work needs to be done to make startup faster.
On the other hand having filtered text provides multiple advantages. The filtering becomes accurate. It can be used to compute rules to take conditional actions. Notifications delivery via email and SMS would make more sense as well.
Running a browser on server enables another cool function. User could record macro and run the macro when text satisfied a pre-condition.
Edit: typo