HNNotify Source Available
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My apologies for taking so long to make this available after retiring the site. If anyone is interesting, here it is.
It's a Play 1.x app with Mongo 2.6.x sitting behind it.
The interesting bits are the Jobs that run discovering, indexing, reconciling and mailing notifications: https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/hnnotify/tree/master/app/job...
and the JSoup-based Parser (thank god for JSoup): https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/hnnotify/blob/master/app/par...
If anyone would like to take this and relaunch the server, please feel free - it's completely self-sustaining... if it wasn't for 2 botched OS upgrades in the ~6 years it was running I don't think I ever needed to do anything with the server. It just ran.
Logs are incredibly verbose to make troubleshooting easier... watch the disk space - if anything does go wrong you can simply kill it and relaunch and it will pickup where it left off.
The only problem I had was running out of disk space and getting blocked by Gmail by too many daily outbound mails... other than that, set it and forget it.