Talk:Notifier.pl

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Template:Project We need utility which runs as a daemon and uses a set of rules specifying information sources to be checked on a schedule and

  • This could be implemented as a Perl daemon, or it could be handled by the #schedule MediaWiki extension.

Rules

  • Schedule: when to check for changes
  • Source: FS, URL, POP
  • Extraction pattern: Extracts the information from the received content
  • Message: containing $n args
  • Target: FS, Wiki, POP, IRC

Example Usage

  • SVN changes sent to chat room
  • Changes to files appended to a log file
  • Changed files syncronised to wiki article
  • Changed articles written to files
  • Price of a product changing shows up in wiki changes