Question about the Hot Deals Page

[sleepy_monkey]

Is there a way to send an alert via email anytime a new thread is made here in Hot Deals? Just curious so maybe we can all get some insano deals quicker (or a quicker heads up) and not miss out on some! Thanks for any info!

[samc2527]

I also think thats a great idea

[John D@508]

Subscribe to it under the Forum Tools box on the right, then opt for email alerts.

[lakedmb]

Won't doing that send us emails/updates each time a reply is posted to? Or will we only receive emails from new threads?

[corba]

I couldn't find such a feature. I wish there was.

I wrote my own perl script that polls the page every ~20 minutes, If you have Linux or Mac this can work for you (it just emailed me your post!):


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my %hit;
dbmopen (%hit,"tb.db",0666);
# note use of a real db (mysql/postgres) would make this multithreadable

my $page=$ARGV[0];
system("wget -o /dev/null -O out.$$.dat $page") or print $!;
open(X,"<out.$$.dat") or print $!;
my $thit=0;
my $out='';
my $mainout='';
my $id='';
my $title='';
my $cnt=0;
while(<X>){
next unless /thread_title_/o;
$id=$_;
my $title=$_;
$id=~s/.*thread_title_(\d+)[^\d+].*/$1/;
$id=~s/[^\d]//g;
$title=~s/.*thread_title_\d+">([^<]+).*/$1/;

unless ($hit{$id}==1){
$cnt++;
$hit{$id}=1;
$out.=<<EOF;
$title
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=$id

EOF
}
}
unlink "out.$$.dat";
##############
print $out;

dbmclose %hit;

print "CNT: $cnt\n";
exit unless $cnt; ########
my $subj=my $subj=$ARGV[1];
open (Y,qq(|mail -s tb:$subj yourEmailHere\@gmail.com)) or print $!;
print Y <<EOF;
$cnt FROM: $page

$out
EOF
close Y;



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and here are my crons:


root@oc:/data/htdocs/tb# crontab -l|grep tb
*/10 6-22 * * * cd /data/htdocs/tb;./tb.pl http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f171/ HOT_DEALS
*/10 6-22 * * * sleep 60;cd /data/htdocs/tb;./tb.pl http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f127/ AMPS
0 7-22 * * * sleep 160;cd /data/htdocs/tb;./tb.pl http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f175/ BASS-CENTRAL
*/20 6-22 * * * sleep 260;cd /data/htdocs/tb;./tb.pl http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f126/ BASSES
*/30 7-22 * * * sleep 360;cd /data/htdocs/tb;./tb.pl http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f213/ EFFECTS
0 7-22 * * * sleep 460;cd /data/htdocs/tb;./tb.pl http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f129/ ACCESSORIES[/code][/html]

[corba]

also, there is a cool web site called watchThatPage.com, but since the 'views' counts change on each talkbass forum, it triggers watchThatPage.com to email 'changes' inaccurately.

but watchThatPage.com is good for other things like craigslist, fatwallet, etc.

[sleepy_monkey]

Corba, where would we put that formula? And only for the Hot Deals section...i dont really need the For Sale Bass, Amp, Accessories pages to be emailed.

Thanks!

[corba]

Originally Posted by sleepy_monkey

Corba, where would we put that formula? And only for the Hot Deals section...i dont really need the For Sale Bass, Amp, Accessories pages to be emailed.

Thanks!

as i said, you have to know a little Linux or Mac OSX to implement these.

if you are really HOT for 'HOT Deals' alerts (or others), feel free to PM me your email address and the forum, and i'll include your email in my alert script! it checks every ~20 minutes.

[A-Step-Towards]

I want text , tweets , emails , Pm's .........., kidding but TB has brought me uber deals the past 6 months.

[mizzou541]

Originally Posted by A-Step-Towards

I want text , tweets , emails , Pm's .........., kidding but TB has brought me uber deals the past 6 months.

+1

I'm addicted to this section. I hate paying full price for things.

[rusackas]

You can use the RSS feed, which alerts you to new threads. I subscribe to the feed via Google Reader, and on my Mac, use NetNewsWire as a Google Reader client. Quite handy

[mizzou541]

How do you subscribe to the RSS?

[rusackas]

Well, every browser is different, but in Safari, you'll see an RSS icon in the right side of the address bar (this is true for some other browsers too). That'll load the feed and display its address in the address bar. This works for any forum, any thread, or TB in general. For this particular Hot Deals forum, here's the RSS feed address:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/extern...2&forumids=171

[mizzou541]

Ah, I couldn't get it to just give me Hot Deals without everything under classifieds but I figured it out...thanks.

[sleepy_monkey]

So when you do that does the browser just pop up when a change is made on that particular page...in this case the Hot Deals main page?

[mizzou541]

I did it though Outlook so it works just like getting email for me.

[sleepy_monkey]

Originally Posted by mizzou541

I did it though Outlook so it works just like getting email for me.

Instructions?

On Firefox, it just wants to put a "Live Bookmark" when you try to subscribe to the RSS feed.

[froghat]

Originally Posted by sleepy_monkey

Instructions?

On Firefox, it just wants to put a "Live Bookmark" when you try to subscribe to the RSS feed.

If you want to subscribe to the RSS feed from Outlook:

1. Open Outlook - make sure it is displaying your email folders down the left side.

2. Near the bottom there should be a folder labeled "RSS Feeds". Right click it and select "Add a New RSS Feed".

3. In the dialog box that pops up, paste:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/extern...2&forumids=171

It's that easy.

[corba]

Originally Posted by A-Step-Towards

I want text , tweets , emails , Pm's .........., kidding but TB has brought me uber deals the past 6 months.

ok,

I've also made a twitter feed for HOT DEALS:

http://twitter.com/talkbass2

fyi



i've had 4 peeps request to be on the emailing list, everyone is invited, PM your email and the forum you want alerts on.

for those that don't want to use RSS.

Greg