ljNotify: Get notifications by email of activity on your friends list...

[teemus]

I use Ryberg a lot, but needed something that would send email notifications when people add/remove me from their friends list. So I wrote this little script that runs once daily, off my server. It basically retrieves a user's friends list from LiveJournal, compares it to the day-old snapshot stored on my server (in text files), and sends an email

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[contestant]

Question: Is this available for usage on your server? It's a nifty idea, but I don't have a server...

[f_o_n_y]

i've already got it up and running. it's AWESOME. the thing i love is that i can have it monitor the rss feeds on lj for my other sites.

thank you!

[teemus]

Thanks! :D

I spotted a tiny mistake in my code when it's run as a cron job. For the /data directory, I had to specify the entire path, e.g. /home/my_directory_on_server/ljNotify/data, as PHP runs off / (I think) for cron jobs. Make sure you have that fix. I updated the comment in the code.

teemuS.

[mordea]

Groovy.

[whatifoundthere]

Hi. I have a web domain but I have never run a script off it. Is there an easy way to explain how I do that? Or is a web domain not the same as a server?

[teemus]

If your server supports PHP, I'm sure you can setup this script on it. See the "PHP" and "Web Server" categories @ http://hostingzoom.com/helpdesk.php?x=&mod_id=2&root=3 to know how to setup your scripts on a domain server.

[glowing_dragon]

Is there a difference between this and Joule? I prefer Joule, because it sounds way easier!

[teemus]

Joule is web-based, so is Rydberg. This is about notifications through email.

[glowing_dragon]

Okay then...