If a feed isn't available, you could also simply use the HTTP Last-Modified header (and/or Etag) to check if the source file has changed. This doesn't help, though, if new editions are released as separate files, like Tischendorf: http://files.morphgnt.org/tischendorf/
Weston On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Gregory Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com>wrote: > If the websites have some sort of syndicated feed, like RSS or Atom or the > like, it would be easy to write a basic script to pull the latest info from > that. Likewise if there is regular version information in a web-accessible > version of the file as well as the module's config file on the lines of > SourceVersion=1.7.6 or SourceDate=1999-10-06 or something like that. > > If that sort of information is not available in a structured way, then > tracking updates to the upstream material can become far more difficult. > > --Greg > > > > > On Jan 13, 2010, at 7:37 AM, David Haslam <d.has...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > > >> Do we have any system in place to monitor for changes the websites where >> our >> module source texts from from? >> e.g. When the text itself has been updated. >> >> Or do we rely on ad hoc knowledge and reporting by interested volunteers? >> >> David >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n4.nabble.com/Watching-websites-where-our-source-texts-come-from-tp1013006p1013006.html >> Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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