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Output/Screenshot

Growl notification

Growl on Mac
Mac Growl
Growl on Windows
Windows Growl

Terminal output


$ perl SENotify.pl -s stackoverflow  -r 60 -v

2 question found on serverfault at : Tue Jun 22 21:41:38 2010

Best way to implement Amazon CloudFront for established website
[amazon-s3] [cdn] [cloudfront] (v:2|a:0)
http://www.serverfault.com/questions/153764

Unable to move print spooler on Windows Server 2008R2
[windows-server-2008-r2] [print-server] (v:1|a:0)
http://www.serverfault.com/questions/153765

1 question found on serverfault at : Tue Jun 22 22:01:40 2010

POP3 authentication using email address in Exchange
[exchange] [exchange-2010] [pop3] (v:2|a:0)
http://www.serverfault.com/questions/153770

About

This perl script is a notification tool of new question on Stack Exchange website.
It supports output to terminal (STDOUT) as well as Growl (on both Mac OS X and Windows)

License

GPL v3

Download

Latest source is available here : http://code.google.com/p/senotify/source/browse/trunk/
Website is here : http://code.google.com/p/senotify/

Platform

This is a Perl script, any platform running perl can run it.
If you are looking for a .Net implementation take a look to the soapi-notify .Net clone

To use it you need Perl and the following Perl module
- JSON
- LWP::UserAgent

You can do so with the following command (sudo is optional)
sudo cpan -i JSON
sudo cpan -i LWP::UserAgent

ActivePerl for Windows comes with both module included
Mac OS X users will have to install JSON module

Growl

Mac OS X and Windows users can take advantage of Growl notification.
See http://growl.info/ for Mac users
See http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/ for Windows users

Mac users: in the Growl image disk, install growlnotify located in the Extras direcotry

Version

Current version is 0.5

Change in v0.5 are:

  • Add tag inclusion filter
  • Add verbose mode, need to be enable to see number of question found.

Change in v0.4 are:

  • use API v0.9

Change in v0.3 are:

  • Improve Growl for Windows output
  • Show count value (view/answer) after tag list for a better question visibility
  • Add a readme file
  • Add usage example

Change in v0.2 are:

  • Add proxy support
  • Add Windows growl support
  • Use API Key
  • Provide logo and suppress --image option
  • Add question URL to terminal output
  • Better query to API
  • Show number of new question in terminal output
  • Add view count to output
  • Support multiple --site argument to monitor many site at once
  • Support tag exclusion with --excludetag

Contact

Author is Jean-Edouard Babin can be contacted at jeb in jeb.com.fr

Code

Code is written in Perl and is available here, you can contribute by sending patch to jeb in jeb.com.fr

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  • Is there documentation?
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jun 21, 2010 at 1:59
  • @George Edison I started this today the only documentation available yet is the program help flag
    – radius
    Commented Jun 21, 2010 at 5:32
  • here is the .net clone. hope you don't mind and hopefully you will get some love spilled over here. ;-) stackapps.com/questions/820/…
    – Sky Sanders
    Commented Jun 21, 2010 at 11:27
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    radius - after using the app for a day i have some observations that you may be interested in. see stackapps.com/questions/820/…
    – Sky Sanders
    Commented Jun 22, 2010 at 9:14
  • @radious +1 very slick. Feature-request: a good packaging for dummies.
    – systempuntoout
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 19:40
  • @systempuntoout I don't really see how to make a packaging as it rely on external tools (perl, perl module, growl) but you can use the web version stackapps.com/questions/940
    – radius
    Commented Jul 1, 2010 at 12:07
  • This may be obvious, but I wanted to add it here in case its not. You can get it to monitor the new webapps stackexchange site by using perl SENotify.pl -s webapps.stackexchange
    – KeithB
    Commented Jul 8, 2010 at 18:35
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    Yep ! I should load site list on stackauth... patch are welcome :)
    – radius
    Commented Jul 8, 2010 at 19:11

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Reset to default
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Possible Improvment

Here is what I think good for a next version

  • Place the (v:X|a:X) part at the end of tag list for a better question visibility <- DONE
  • Improve terminal output to refresh (v:X|a:X) values of older question (and may be removed answered one from screen) using curse or something like this.

Any comment are welcome

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  • I like the idea of placing the metric last. Unfortunately i just released v1 that still has them ahead of the title. In the next incremental release I will change this and modify the custom displays. Your windows users can then use the custom displays with your script.
    – Sky Sanders
    Commented Jun 24, 2010 at 13:01
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For me, it fails with the following reason:

$ perl SENotify.pl -s stackoverflow -r 10 -v
Unable to retrieve data (404 Not Found) at SENotify.pl line 151.
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  • Could you please retry latest version. I forgot to commit the change for the API 1.0
    – radius
    Commented Sep 13, 2010 at 18:29

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