Basic script that will check and see if there have been any recent changes to a Wikimedia. Used for low use Wikimedia sites to keep an eye on them. I run this whenever my box starts and it will open the browser along with a few other windows that open.
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from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import webbrowser
# Remote Path to your Wikimedia instalation
remote_link = ""
# Special link for Wikimedia to the Recent Changes Special Page
recent_changes_link = "index.php/Special:RecentChanges"
link = remote_link + recent_changes_link
page = urllib2.urlopen(link)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
test = soup.findAll(text=u"diff")
if len(test) != 0:
webbrowser.open(link)
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On Ubuntu, it is run through System>Preferences>Startup Applications in this matter: bash -c "sleep 10; python /path/to/change_check.py; /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random www.pandora.com https://www.rememberthemilk.com/"
Looking to make any improvements to the script or my start up process. Thanks.
