Can Octoparse help me? comparing data and then emailing me update
Hi, I am not a programmer but think I have a simple task. I have a simple web page I am monitoring. This particular page updates it's inventory daily. It's one page, nothing more. I am looking for a particular item. I want a simple tool to monitor this web page and if this inventory piece (key set of words) appears, I want to get emailed.
If someone has a moment to let me know if Octoparse or perhaps another software is out there for a non programmer like me to utilize and set up, I would be most appreciative.
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Hi andrewsolo73,
Thank you for reaching out.
As for "if this inventory piece (key set of words) appears", we need to know if the URL of the webpage changes when the content changes on the webpage? If the answer's yes, Octoparse is able to scrape data based on the changes, but if the URL remains the same even when the content changes, then Octoparse is not able to determine it, in other words, Octoparse can only determine changes in the URL itself but not the content on the page.
Best regards,
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