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WaldiPL / webpageScanner

Extension for Firefox
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Scan at certain times and not in intervals #55

Open sphh opened 3 years ago

sphh commented 3 years ago

I would like to have the WebPageScanner to check for updated webpages at certain times of the day (and day in the week or even day in the month) and not after a certain interval. If that time was missed (because the computer was switched off or Firefox was not running), WebPageScanner should do the scan at the first possible occasion. A bit like cron and anacron in the Linux world … Is that possible?

hmijail commented 2 years ago

A related issue: currently, looks like the scanning happens at intervals from the time the page was added to the extension's list. This means that 2 pages added at different times in the day will notify of changes at different times in the day - even if they have the same scanning period. In my case, I have ~20 pages being scanned, which causes a drip-drip-drip of update notifications through the day.

So it would be great to have an option to make all the scans happen / be notified together. Given that each page can have a different scan period, I guess the only sane way to do this is to allow to set the time when the scan happens.