Re: List Current MacUpdate Items
Re: List Current MacUpdate Items
- Subject: Re: List Current MacUpdate Items
- From: Hylton Boothroyd <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:50:44 +0100
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:49:51 -0500 Christopher Stone
<email@hidden> wrote
List the current Items on MacUpdate:
set mu to do shell script "curl -L --user-agent 'Opera/9.70 (Linux
ppc64 ; U; en) Presto/2.2.1' http://www.macupdate.com \\
| awk -F'id=\"app-[0-9]+[^>]+>' '/a href=.+id=\"app/ { print $2 }' \\
| awk -F'<' '{ print $1 }'"
I'm not sure if I'll do anything practical with it, but I might
write to a file and do a diff during a given day to see what if
anything is different since the last check.
Well, for sheer convenience, if I wanted to keep a check on what's
going on at www.macupdate.com I'd simply click on the 'RSS' tab at
the bottom of the home page, which would add it to the list of sites
checked automatically by Vienna.
That said, it looks as though it might be useful idea to use/develop
for querying websites where the webmaster can't or won't provide an
RSS feed.
--
Hylton
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