Learning about old Thai movie theaters
March 31, 2007 4:49 PM Subscribe
Is there some sort of Mac program that can monitor a web forum and update me when there are new posts?
There's a Thai movie forum where a lot of people post images of old Thai movie theaters and posters. I'm interested in these, but don't want to have to go in and select each thread on a regular basis (I can't read Thai) to search for them. I tried using SiteSucker once or twice but each time it's run it has to visit each page on the site. Not only does that take forever, I don't want to be hitting them with unneeded sitewide traffic.
Maybe I'm thinking of something like RSS, where it has to actually be set up by the site itself, but I thought I'd ask just in case anyone had any ideas.
There's a Thai movie forum where a lot of people post images of old Thai movie theaters and posters. I'm interested in these, but don't want to have to go in and select each thread on a regular basis (I can't read Thai) to search for them. I tried using SiteSucker once or twice but each time it's run it has to visit each page on the site. Not only does that take forever, I don't want to be hitting them with unneeded sitewide traffic.
Maybe I'm thinking of something like RSS, where it has to actually be set up by the site itself, but I thought I'd ask just in case anyone had any ideas.
Not that this will be any sort of help, but someone wanted a program like this, and entered it into My Dream App.
posted by mhz at 5:58 PM on March 31, 2007
posted by mhz at 5:58 PM on March 31, 2007
There are several HTML to RSS services out there (Feed43 comes to mind) that you can use to make RSS feeds from sites that don't have them usually. Create one of those then subscribe to it.
posted by wackybrit at 6:22 PM on March 31, 2007
posted by wackybrit at 6:22 PM on March 31, 2007
What forum software is it? If it's a vBulletin variant, you can subscribe to posts (and sometimes forums), and then on your User CP page it will only show you the posts that have been updated since the last visit.
posted by smackfu at 9:58 AM on April 1, 2007
posted by smackfu at 9:58 AM on April 1, 2007
mhz writes 'Not that this will be any sort of help, but someone wanted a program like this, and entered it into My Dream App.'
Hijack is still being developed, despite losing the My Dream App competition.
posted by jack_mo at 10:14 AM on April 1, 2007
Hijack is still being developed, despite losing the My Dream App competition.
posted by jack_mo at 10:14 AM on April 1, 2007
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And that's the key reason RSS has caught on so fast, across the Web. It's the intelligent way for Web site operators to manage their bandwidth costs, while driving traffic directly to interesting new content. So, lobby the site for RSS!
If the site itself doesn't publish RSS or Atom feeds, you might be able to find a caching proxy out on the Web, (or set one up yourself) that can hold content, and just force updates for new stuff, from a wget client behind the cache. Run wget, pointed at the cache, from cron on your Mac, and you don't up the bandwidth demands on the Web site, if they are supplying cache-friendly headers, but you, as the client, still have to sift through the haystack for the new needles. But if you can query the cache intelligently, you could even overcome this.
posted by paulsc at 5:41 PM on March 31, 2007