#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple qw(head get); use MD5; print q{Dylan v0.0.1, 2003-03-24, johanl@bossmedia.se For the sites they are a-changin' }; main(); sub main { my $ext = ".snapshot"; my $daysLifetime = 14; my $secondsDelay = 60 * 10; my $commandShow = q{START %s}; my @aUrl = ( "http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/", ); while(1) { print "\nChecking urls:\n" . join("\n", map { " $_" } @aUrl) . "\n"; for my $url( aChangedUrls(\@aUrl, $ext, $daysLifetime) ) { my $command = sprintf($commandShow, $url); system($command) and warn("Could not show url ($url)\n"); } print "\nZZzzzzz for ($secondsDelay) seconds\n"; sleep($secondsDelay); } } sub aChangedUrls { my ($raUrl, $ext, $daysLifetime) = @_; my $isFirstTime = ! glob("*$ext"); #No files == first time my @aChanged; for my $url (@$raUrl) { my $text = get($url) or warn("Could not fetch ($url)\n"), next; my $fileMd5 = MD5->hexhash($text) . $ext; if(! -r $fileMd5) { open(my $fh, "> $fileMd5") or warn("Could not create ($fileMd5)\n"), next; close($fh); push(@aChanged, $url); } } @aChanged = () if($isFirstTime); #It didn't "change" if it was the first time #Clean up old stuff unlink($_) for ( grep { -M > $daysLifetime} glob("*$ext")); return(@aChanged); } __END__