Is there any automatic Windows software to check status of website

Question

Is there any automatic Windows software application to check status of website and alert me through mail or message or trigger am alarm..

Example: Consider I am waiting to buy a new latest movie ticket online (through) and the ticket booking has not been informed properly (online booking is opening at a random time). In this situation I will be forced to slave for my PC to get the tickets. To avoid such situation, can you suggest me a software?

So I need a software which will alert me when the online booking is open.. Can anyone please help me?

Answer 1

Such an application will heavily depend on the functionality and architecture of the web site, the technologies it uses, whether it provides RSS/API or not etc. Try these methods:

1. Check to see whether the web site provides notification options through subscription. For example, on this web site (Super User) one can subscribe to tags, and they can get daily/hourly emails when a question related to that tag is asked.
2. Check to see whether the web site has RSS/Atom functionality and they publish a post in these formats when online booking has opened. If so, you can subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds and you will get notified through your RSS/Atom application or web browser.
3. Check to see whether the web site provides an API for checking booking status at random/regular intervals. If so, you can develop or ask some friend or hire a developer to develop a simple application for you for that purpose. A small script or desktop/web app with email or notification functionality will suffice.
4. If it's a popular web site, probably someone has developed an extension, gadget, widget etc. Check Google.
5. Finally, try these websites, they seem to provide the service you're asking but I don't know whether the site you're mentioning is in their database, I haven't tried them. Use at your own risk!
   • http://www.frogfeed.com/
   • http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/pagetiki/
   • http://www.urlywarning.net/

Answer 2

Check out Check4Change - a Mozilla Firefox addon...

Check4Change (aka C4C) is a simple extension that allows you to periodically check a web-page for updates...

Hit the link for more info on how it works - it may not be exactly what you're looking for, but worth checking out.

Some other alternatives - at your own risk:

http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/monitor.htm

http://www.updatepatrol.com/

Answer 3

I haven't used it in years, and it appears to not have been updated in a while, but WebMon was pretty good while i was using it: http://www.markwell.btinternet.co.uk/webmon/