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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Be extremely carefull with such scripts. In fact, such stuff has been made in the past (Plus!3) and the forum admins did not liked it since it creates more overhead with that constant polling of threads.
Rather make a script which checks your email for new forum notification mails. Benefits:
- you don't need to login to the forum
- the forum will not detect another 'guest'
- you can also see updates in threads which guest have no access to
- the forum isn't bombarded with requests (which WILL happen when people use such a script)
- you have all the info you need in the email already: new post id (which you will NOT have when you simply poll threads as more posts may have posted before your script detects them), the name of the poster, the thread topic, etc...
Again, please don't make a script which directly polls threads (untill further notice of an admin).
!!! IMPORTANT !!!
I hear you i'm a senior web guy so such considerations are not lost on me, I was going to set the time frequency to be a minimum of 15 minutes say, and it would do just one scrape, if you wanted a frequency greater than that it would mean you were activly activating in the topic and as such would have it open in your browser anyway
At 15 minutes that would be ok , I mean when users are actually checking topics they quite often refresh every minute or so , so the script would NOT be putting any stress on the server.
If the user edits the frequency, I cant be held to blame , look at virus writers, you cant blame the makers of c compilers or such for the code users make eh?
This script would not be polling this forum by default , but any forum, no more harmful by default that browsing in a browser, which in itself anyone is entitled to do
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