website or firefox extension that will notify me when a change is made on a site?

February 6, 2009 3:09 PM

Does anyone know of an easy site/service (something like notify.me) or Firefox extension that will send me a notification (SMS or IM preferred) when a change is made on a site? The site that I want to be notified of a change on doesn't have RSS or I'd just route it from there to IM or E-mail.
posted by debu to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Update Scanner?
posted by vilthuril at 3:24 PM on February 6

ChangeDetection.com
posted by jaimev at 3:34 PM on February 6

thanks Iboth those look good, anyone know of one that will send updates via SMS?
posted by debu at 4:19 PM on February 6

TrackEngine.
posted by cmyers at 5:38 PM on February 6

there are so many... watchthatpage.com, page2rss.com, diffbot... I'm sure there are more... but I dunno if there are any that do IM alerts...
posted by mhh5 at 9:34 PM on February 6

oh.. and if you want SMS alerts -- I guess you could do some kind of RSS to twitter to SMS hack?
posted by mhh5 at 9:36 PM on February 6

you can create RSS feeds for a page that doesn't have them, by using Dapper, FeedYes, or many other services. Pingie will send you RSS with SMS, but it's still in beta.
posted by webgurl at 6:44 AM on February 7