A bit of cron.
There comes a time when you want to let your computer be sort of a secretary and do jobs for you automatically at certain times, This instructable will help you do that, Wanted the computer to tell me when I was at 200,000 total views. The goal was to have a little popup tell when that happened. I could of been real fancy and have the computer send up a flag, turn on lights, or whatever. The pop- up was enough for me. We will be using cron to do all the work for us. Example of one project I used cron for: http://www.instructables.com/id/Radar-graphics-in-a-text-world/ More info on cron at \http://www.devdaily.com/linux/unix-linux-crontab-every-minute-hour-day-syntax http://www.howconfig.com/linux/crontab/ Step 1: Get the info. First we need to create a batch file to get the information from the web. We will be using just a simple page scraping to get the total views. I have talked about page scraping before in other instr...