monitor a specific field in a web page

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Hey,

There is a webpage with registered user counter.
I want to get an alert when that counter gets to 1000.

Does someone know of a website/browser extension that enables sms/email notification when a specific field in a public website is equal a certain value?

Maybe someone know how to write a small script that does that?

I'm sorry for the rude request.
Thanks in advance

Posted 7-Mar-11 10:26am

elad2109

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AspDotNetDev · Answer 1 · 2011-03-07T11:12:00

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You can use C# (or VB.net) to load up the page using the WebClient class. You can then search the string for "1000" and "1,000". Then you can send out an email using the SmtpClient class. Unless somebody knows of an existing tool that does this, you'll have to build it yourself.

Posted 7-Mar-11 11:12am

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Dalek Dave 7-Mar-11 17:24pm

Good Call

elad2109 7-Mar-11 17:27pm

I think I can write c# program that does that. But few questions:
1) That means my program needs to be on all the time. I was thinking of an offline service that will monitor the website also when my PC is off.

2) Is there a way of achieving that with scripts, or will it be too complicated?
10x

AspDotNetDev 7-Mar-11 17:34pm

You will obviously need a running computer to run a program, but it doesn't have to be yours. You can use most any computer to run your program. You could use your work computer. If you make an ASP.Net web application, you can upload it to your website (assuming you have one) and it can run there. Though, running it from a website comes with issues (e.g., ASP.Net does not like to keep your program running if no requests are made for a while, but there are articles for how to get around that).

elad2109 7-Mar-11 17:52pm

10x, what c# classes should I use in order to acquire a certain string from a given url ? I have no clue what classes and namespace could help me out.

elad2109 8-Mar-11 6:12am

I have wrote the c# code I needed.
Does someone know of a free server where I can host my c# code behind to work all time? (it's just one small file).

10x