website-poller 0.5.1

Polls specified websites and alerts using system notifications.

website-poller polls websites specified at ~/.websitepollerrc (JSON) and alerts using system notifications should some website fail to respond properly.

Define your ~/.websitepollerrc like this:

{
    "user-agent": "Koodilehto Website Poller",
    "websites": [
        "http://www.github.com",
        "http://www.google.com"
    ]
}

Installation

Linux

Change the paths at ./install.sh and run it, or add the crontab entry yourself: @hourly DISPLAY=:0.0 /path/to/websitepoller.py > /dev/null

Make sure you have python-notify2 installed in order for the notications to work.

OS X

Make sure you have GNTP installed. Note that this depends on Growl. Otherwise Linux instructions apply.

Windows

No official support at the moment. Feel free to contribute.

License

MIT. See LICENSE for more information.