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Notification about new Docs #2

Open obstschale opened 7 years ago

obstschale commented 7 years ago

Hey,

I maintain the octave docset and had the same problem you mention in the README. I don't use octave anymore but I wanted to keep the docset up to date. I want to tell, what I did to keep it up to date.

The Problem

So, I don't use octave anymore, that means I don't know when new versions are released. So I built a simple web app: octave-docs-notification. This app simply pareses this site and looks if a new doc is released since last check. If so, I get an email.

I still need to compile the docset myself. I thought about writing a script to do it for me. But octave is rarely released, so I decided to skip this part.

Technical Information

The web app is built with Lumen (Micro Laravel Framework) and runs on my own webspace.

Maybe this gives you some ideas :)

Kapeli commented 7 years ago

I'll pitch in what I use.

Although not as nice as your solution, I've found Follow That Page to be very reliable as a general works for all solution.

A lot of docs don't show any version numbers though. Using tagurit to watch for new releases in the project's repo is an option sometimes.

peterpme commented 7 years ago

Wow both ideas are awesome! I was looking into a way we can listen in on different git webhooks. My primary targets are the FB-driven libraries like flowtype, immutable & react and all live on git right now and include md files.

I know md files aren't supported but perhaps I can come up with a clever way to sync em all together