Message Board Fetching Script

[brianafischer]

Here is my problem: I visit many discussion forums on the web. However, I only want to visit some of them when certain topics are discussed. I was wondering if there is a program/script that can check the messageboard threads for a keyword, and then somehow notify me when a relavant thread is posted. I am willing to pay for this solution as it will save me tons of time and time is money! Any advice is appreciated.

P.S. That means I can be no the anand forums more!

Thanks,
Brian

 

[brianafischer]

a few days and no reply...anyone?

 

[joohang]

I can think of some ways to create such an app but don't know if anything like that exists.

 

[n0cmonkey]

You can either write a script to go through google selecting a particular site, or you can download the forums and search them locally.

 

[singh]

It's pretty easy. In fact, I created a little "demo" program (as did someone else a while back). If you can find someplace to host it, I'll send it to you to look at 🙂

 

[DocDoo]

Not exactly what you are looking for but may help isolote things a bit. The easiest way to do this would be like this...

Copy/Paste below into google.com search box.

windows xp site:forums.anandtech.com

The above will search for the words windows xp only in the Anandtech forum. Of course you should change windows xp with what you are searching for... If you know HTML, you can even pre-define the sites and create a page of your own using google.com.

 

[Valhalla1]

interesting, thanks for the tip DocDoo i didnt know u could do that

 

[brianafischer]

Anandtech Fetch Threads Program

Courtesy of singh.

-Brian

 

[joohang]

singh, may I know how you got that to work?

I thought about using the MSHTML parser to get the results. Is that what you did for this app?

It works very well, btw. Good job. 🙂

 

[singh]

No, I thought about using the MS HTML->XML parser but it would have been overkill. I just use the standard brute-force way of doing it 🙂 I made an enhancement to the original (not avb. yet) and separated the Communication thread so it no longer "freezes" the dialog. Plus it allows to click on threads which launches the default browser right to the thread. Works very fast on subscriber servers 🙂