Ask HN: Looking for a simple scraper service with email notifications

2 pointsenraged_camel1 comment

There's a website I find myself checking several times a day to see if a certain thing has happened. I thought about writing a scraper that would email me if the value of a particular element on the site has changed, but then I figured someone must surely have created a SaaS app that does that. Does anyone here know?

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Try this. I really like it. http://www.watchthatpage.com/

WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them. The service is free for smaller accounts.

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