Track changes on web pages using RSS feeds
It’s now become a common practice for blogs and web sites in general to provide RSS feeds that notify subscribers when new information is published (or any other update). That way, visitors don’t have to visit their favorites websites regularly (”PULL” fashion), instead they are notified (”PUSH” fashion) by their RSS feed aggregator as long as they subscribed to the corresponding feeds. That way, the aggregator watch for updates of visitor’s favorite websites, and the visitor only has to read the updates using the aggregator.
The problem is that some websites don’t have RSS feeds. Fortunately, there are a few services that will create that missing RSS feed for you by watching a web page regularly, thus notify you when updates occured.
On this page, I propose a quick review of the services I tried.
