Bot Notifies You When Someone Posts A New Thread

[spectrejoe]

How hard would it be to make something like that for someone new to a language?

 

[blogzandstuff]

How hard would it be to make something like that for someone new to a language?

Why? If youre talking about bhw you'd probably need approval anyway. Surely the watch button does this already

 

[Alex D.]

How hard would it be to make something like that for someone new to a language?

I think it's pretty much easy, the bot should check user last activity - detect new thread and send you a notification. It's very simple.

 

[spectrejoe]

Why? If youre talking about bhw you'd probably need approval anyway. Surely the watch button does this already

Not BHW, I intend to track certain keywords on forums / reddit.

I think it's pretty much easy, the bot should check user last activity - detect new thread and send you a notification. It's very simple.

Not mine or single user though. Think of a new thread in a certain subforum of a website by a random user, as soon as it was submitted it would notify me (desktop, mail, whatever.)

Any idea what would be a good language to try to do it with and any tips / start points?

 

[alpha ig]

It's probably not too hard to do something like this
If you're a beginner, I'd recommend you to code something like this in Python, it's beginner friendly and has lots of useful libraries

 

[BassTrackerBoats]

That would probably be a nice product if it were offered commercially as lots of us would find that beneficial.

I'd probably buy it if it were priced reasonably.

 

[spectrejoe]

That would probably be a nice product if it were offered commercially as lots of us would find that beneficial.

I'd probably buy it if it were priced reasonably.

I wonder how no one has thought about this before, been searching for some similar for years now

 

[Sceptic]

Ahrefs has something similar to this

 

[SpoonFeeder]

I wonder how no one has thought about this before, been searching for some similar for years now

UptimeRobot does this. There's a module to "monitor" keyword and notify if the keyword is found/not found on a webpage.

You can try the free version which checks for keyword in 5 min interval and the paid version allows you to check ever minute.

 

[TasDePixels]

That would probably be a nice product if it were offered commercially as lots of us would find that beneficial.

I'd probably buy it if it were priced reasonably.

+1
I did that for years for multiple brands, and yes it's extremely profitable if you know what you're doing. But it's not as easy as it looks, the tracking process is just the first step.
The main idea is to track a keyword/profile in all media channels ( Social media sites / forums / news articles / TV & Radio ) and set up a daily reporting system that includes some KPIs :

Tone of all mentions : Positive / neutral / negative.
Poster info's : age / gender / location etc...
Mentions impact : likes / dislikes / reach

i also run a deep analysis of all mentions using AI & NLP to track bad buzzs / PR nightmares / users behavior and stuff like that.

 

[littlewebdragon]

What about google alerts? Wouldn't that help? I do realize it depends on the google, but with popular websites it is quite quick to catch up.