Tracking changes to a website

Tracking website changes is useful for both web developers and users. Checking a website manually is impractical, but a change tracking script can be run at regular intervals. When a change occurs, it generates a notification.

Getting ready

Tracking changes in terms of Bash scripting means fetching websites at different times and taking the difference using the diff command. We can use curl and diff to do this.

How to do it...

This Bash script combines different commands, to track changes in a web page:

#!/bin/bash 
#Filename: change_track.sh 
#Desc: Script to track changes to webpage...