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SENotify - SE new question notification

Output/Screenshot

Growl notification

Growl on Mac
Mac Growl http://imgur.com/vx4uy.png
Growl on Windows
Windows Growl

Terminal output


$ perl SENotify.pl -s stackoverflow  -r 60
  
  1 question found at : Mon Jun 21 02:39:14 2010
  
  (v:1|a:1) When to Normalize a Vector?
  [c#] [game-development] [xna]
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3081536
  
  2 question found at : Mon Jun 21 02:40:15 2010
  
  (v:2|a:0) Spring: Okay to have two contexts - web & backend?
  [java] [spring] [integration] [webapp] [backend]
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3081538
  
  (v:0|a:0) How can I make a variable of the same type as another using templates?
  [c++] [templates] [variables]
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3081537

  1 question found at : Mon Jun 21 02:41:16 2010
  
  (v:1|a:0) Why is my operator<< overloading not working?
  [c++] [operators]
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3081539

##About

This perl script will notify of new question added to one of the StackExchange website (serverfault, stackoverflow, superuser, etc.)
It's useful to track new question, shell output and Growl notification (on mac and windows) are supported

###License

GPL v3

###Download

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

###Version

Current version is 0.2
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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