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Welcome to the sitebeagle wiki!

This code is for experts on the command-line! I am working on a web and mobile version soon.

Sitebeagle lets you know on twitter if a site has changed or is down.

Uses:

=1= Let me know when Hulu has updated its site with a new TV episode.

=2= Let me know if my site is down.

I am deprecating the newLISP version of Sitebeagle. Although newLISP is great for Bayesian projects Ruby has the right set of tools for helping me build out Sitebeagle efficiently and with the least amount of headache.

To run sitebeagle you need Ruby.
To run sitebeagle, follow two steps:

1. Get a consumer_key and consumer_secret from http://dev.twitter.com/apps by clicking “Register a new app.”
2. Fill out consumer_key and consumer_secret into a new file auth.yaml that looks like this:

consumer_key: YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY
consumer_secret: YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET

3. Get the auth_token and auth_secret using get_oauth.rb . You will be instructed to go to a URL. Click on that URL. Approve the app and get the verifier number. Enter that number into the command-line.

4. The script will return back your auth_token and auth_secret. Enter that into auth.yaml:
consumer_key: YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY
consumer_secret: YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET
auth_token: YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN
auth_secret: YOUR_AUTH_SECRET

5. Be sure to follow the twitter account that you authorized above. E.G. the account you used to log into http://dev.twitter.com/

6. start sitebeagle.rb by typing: ./sitebeagle.rb http://al3x.net/ 5 twitter_account_for_getting_alerts

If you have any questions, please @barce on twitter.

Enjoy!