[Durham] Something topical - urlwatch

[Dougie Nisbet]

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

Dougie

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> On 12 Apr 2020, at 13:52, Martin Ward <martin at gkc.org.uk> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Each time I download the page (with wget) the following line changes:
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> uniqueId = "Don't call this twice without a uniqueId page 1586693739";
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> So urlwatch will keep telling you it has changed.
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> -- 
>            Martin
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