From dougie at katsura.uk  Sun Apr 12 12:05:43 2020
From: dougie at katsura.uk (Dougie Nisbet)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:05:43 -0000
Subject: [Durham] Something topical - urlwatch
Message-ID: <a1cd1a84-e1e3-1b1a-e767-b35630777a25@katsura.uk>

I've been checking https://www.shipton-mill.com/queue regularly. I'm a 
regular shipton customer but it's a level playing field at the moment. 
I've had no success bagging a slot.

It may not be very sporting, but I decided to try urlwatch to keep an 
eye on the page. It's a very sparsely documented util but I've had 
success with it in the past. However when I try it on the Shipton Mill 
queue I think they have some sort of wizardry that causes a refresh 
every time. I tried curl too without any success.

Not having flour isn't causing me too much grief, but not being able to 
work out urlwatch is. I can't even get it to send me an email. The 
documentation suggests using your gmail account but I'd rather just get 
urlwatch to send an email from the command line but I've not worked that 
one out.

Hope everyone is ok. I'm digging a hole for a wildlife pond and playing 
with Linux, so I've no complaints.

Dougie

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From martin at gkc.org.uk  Sun Apr 12 12:51:47 2020
From: martin at gkc.org.uk (Martin Ward)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:51:47 -0000
Subject: [Durham] Something topical - urlwatch
In-Reply-To: <a1cd1a84-e1e3-1b1a-e767-b35630777a25@katsura.uk>
References: <a1cd1a84-e1e3-1b1a-e767-b35630777a25@katsura.uk>
Message-ID: <cd07c43e-f5e8-3a40-20f5-35869febf11f@gkc.org.uk>

On 12/04/2020 13:05, Dougie Nisbet via Durham wrote:
> I've been checking https://www.shipton-mill.com/queue regularly. I'm a 
> regular shipton customer but it's a level playing field at the moment. 
> I've had no success bagging a slot.
> 
> It may not be very sporting, but I decided to try urlwatch to keep an 
> eye on the page. It's a very sparsely documented util but I've had 
> success with it in the past. However when I try it on the Shipton Mill 
> queue I think they have some sort of wizardry that causes a refresh 
> every time. I tried curl too without any success.

Each time I download the page (with wget) the following line changes:

  uniqueId = "Don't call this twice without a uniqueId page 1586693739";

So urlwatch will keep telling you it has changed.

-- 
			Martin

Dr Martin Ward | Email: martin at gkc.org.uk | http://www.gkc.org.uk
G.K.Chesterton site: http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc | Erdos number: 4


From dougie at katsura.uk  Sun Apr 12 13:43:40 2020
From: dougie at katsura.uk (Dougie Nisbet)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:43:40 -0000
Subject: [Durham] Something topical - urlwatch
In-Reply-To: <cd07c43e-f5e8-3a40-20f5-35869febf11f@gkc.org.uk>
References: <cd07c43e-f5e8-3a40-20f5-35869febf11f@gkc.org.uk>
Message-ID: <EF40BD41-E85F-44E5-8975-06C89055594A@katsura.uk>

Yep, that’s what I’m seeing with urlwatch. 

Dougie

Sent from my iPhone

> On 12 Apr 2020, at 13:52, Martin Ward <martin at gkc.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 12/04/2020 13:05, Dougie Nisbet via Durham wrote:
>> I've been checking https://www.shipton-mill.com/queue regularly. I'm a regular shipton customer but it's a level playing field at the moment. I've had no success bagging a slot.
>> It may not be very sporting, but I decided to try urlwatch to keep an eye on the page. It's a very sparsely documented util but I've had success with it in the past. However when I try it on the Shipton Mill queue I think they have some sort of wizardry that causes a refresh every time. I tried curl too without any success.
> 
> Each time I download the page (with wget) the following line changes:
> 
> uniqueId = "Don't call this twice without a uniqueId page 1586693739";
> 
> So urlwatch will keep telling you it has changed.
> 
> -- 
>            Martin
> 
> Dr Martin Ward | Email: martin at gkc.org.uk | http://www.gkc.org.uk
> G.K.Chesterton site: http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc | Erdos number: 4
>