▲ ▼ Notification for selective portions of web/pdf
There are still websites which provide daily updated data but don't have an app or even if they do; they don't provide notifications for the selective data I'm interested in. In such cases, I'm left with the only option to check those websites or apps regularly.
Often, what I require from these pdf or other web content are just small pieces of information which can be sent over through notifications instead of having to spend the time in visiting these websites/apps or having to remember to do so.
Essentially I'm looking for a tool, which allows me to select a particular piece of information on the web or pdf to be sent as notifications at the intervals set by me, if the information is updated.
Essentially I'm looking for a tool, which allows me to select a particular piece of information on the web or pdf to be sent as notifications at the intervals set by me, if the information is updated.
Has anyone else faced this problem? Or have a solution to this? do let me know.
I did, and I solved it. I developed a web monitoring tool that checks several times a day real-estate websites to spot houses and apartments available in my hometown at a relatively cheap rent. The notifications are sent to a Telegram public channel. There's not really a one-size-fit-all solution, only custom made ones, which need adjustments whenever the website's layout changes. Plenty of large and small companies can develop (and possibly host) a solution for you.
Good to know, was the real-estate data on a website or in a pdf? Is that telegram channel used only by you or do you share with others, any monetary gain from it?
the data is in html, fairly easy to parse. The Telegram channel is being used - for free - by some 150 people. Churn is of course high, people who find a new apartment, leave the channel, but new people subscribe also very often. I'm not monetizing it.
Check our https://visualping.io which I believe does this for websites.
Hey, could not access visualping.com is it online?
But tried https://visualping.io and it seems to do exactly what I need, it even detected .pdf and waiting for a ping when it changes tomorrow.
Thanks a lot!
Sorry! It was visualping.io! Happy you found it!
Selecting web element for data and looking for update would be fairly easy. PDFs which contain tabular data could be converted to CSV and then particular cell could be selected.
Thank you for letting me know on how this can be done.