Script : checks if webpage changed with login:pass. Finished!

Question

I need a .sh script to monitor a webpage and then notify me in conky if there is something new on the site. The site I need to monitor uses login and pass.
I know that there are great applications like specto for this. But I just want a simle .sh script. Not python! Don't want to use python!
I've found 1 but can't figure it out. This is all new to me. Plus it doesn't use login:pass. And it doesn't work for me
#!/usr/bin/env bash
url = "http://www.google.com"
checkfile = "~/pagecheck.md5"
email = "[email protected]"
savefile = "/dev/null"
[ -f ./pagecheck ] \
(diff $(wget -O $savefile $url | md5sum) $checkfile) && mail -s "UPDATED: $url" $email) \
|| \
(wget -O $savefile $url | md5sum > $checkfile)
Does anyone know a good script I could use?
Last edited by Ventil1 (2010-03-21 22:26:09)

Answer 1

Thanks for the help guys. But like I said... This is new to me. I am not a programer. I don't even understand half the stuff you guys said.
I need it similar to this. I mean the if else part.
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#!/bin/bash
gmail_login="myusername"
gmail_password="mypass"
nbmail="$(wget --secure-protocol=TLSv1 --timeout=3 -t 1 -q -O - \
https://${gmail_login}:${gmail_password}@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom \
--no-check-certificate | grep 'fullcount' \
| sed -e 's/.*<fullcount>//;s/<\/fullcount>.*//' 2>/dev/null)"
if [ -z "$nbmail" ]; then
echo "Error"
else
if [ $nbmail != 0 ]; then
echo "$nbmail message(s)"
aplay ~/sounds/mail_here.wav
else
echo "$nbmail message(s)"
fi
fi
Pierre where do I put the login and pass?
# Maintainer: Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]>
pkgname=w3watch-git
pkgver=20090827
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Watch the web and get notified on updates'
arch=('any')
url='http://git.archlinux.de/w3watch/'
depends=('bash' 'lynx' 'awk' 'diffutils' 'coreutils' 'grep')
license=('GPL')
_gitroot='http://git.archlinux.de/~pierre/w3watch.git'
_gitname='w3watch'
build() {
cd ${srcdir}
msg 'Connecting to GIT server....'
if [ -d $_gitname ] ; then
pushd $_gitname && git pull origin
msg 'The local files are updated.'
popd
else
git clone $_gitroot
fi
msg 'GIT checkout done or server timeout'
msg 'Starting make...'
install -D -m755 "${_gitname}/w3watch" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/bin/w3watch"
install -D -m644 "${_gitname}/config.sample" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/w3watch/config.sample"
Last edited by Ventil1 (2010-03-20 08:55:31)