[BangPypers] Program_to_catch_changes_in_webpage

Vishal vsapre80 at gmail.com
Thu May 27 12:18:30 CEST 2010


Hi,

See if this makes sense for your needs:
Adrian Holovaty, one of the makers of Django, has solved the Outlook Web
Access new email notification problem by using a python module to do some
screen scrapping to find out if a new mail has come in.

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/331/

Take care,
Vishal Sapre

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:35 PM, nikunj badjatya
> <nikunjbadjatya at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I am actually using a web interface for outlook mails. Pointing the link
> to
> > my browser opens a page which shows me all my mails.
> > I had to refresh it to check for a new mail.  Many a times I was very
> late
> > to send a reply because of it.
> > So a thought to make a script which will automatically refresh that web
> > page, and tells to user for any new mails by popping a dialog or making a
> > sound.
> >
> > *  It should periodically check for any changes in that webpage .
> > *  If their is any, then notification should be sent to user. ( some
> dialog
> > pop up, or some sound. )
> >
> > Any idea as to how to proceed on this. ?
>
> Please don't cross post to multiple mailing lists.
>
> If you're using FF to do this, it might make sense to write a small
> greasemonkey script to do your refresh + notification.
>
>
>
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Vishal Sapre

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