It gives me great pleasure to let you all know that, somebody have found my Webmon useful! Yes, and they have forked it on github and are using it in their project - of course, with due attribution.
I used it to monitor job portals and career pages of companies of my interest. I maintained it until Feb 2014. After that, it became a dormant project.
One fine day, I was revisiting my github profile - which I do every week, as such - and found that somebody had forked out my webmon. I quickly opened their repository in other tab and started going through it. As a developer, it was so joyful for me, that my pet work is actually of help to somebody. It just made my entire day!
So, what is Webmon?
Webmon is a free software, written in PHP. I created it way back in 2013, with following objectives:
- Detect whether listed webpage have any change in contents.
- If change is detected, calculate the difference, and output what have changed.
- Detect both - positive and negative changes.
I distributed it in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warrenty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Its still available to everyone. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
I do not have any plan as of now to actively contribute to it and take it further, but I would really like if some other developer starts contributing to it, and make it a truly open source project.
