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32 lines
1.3 KiB
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# PatchBot
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Patch Notification Robot: Providing you the latest update notifications.
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## Installation
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Remove ```.example``` suffix from files and modify configuration to your needs.
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Run periodically ```php PatchCollector.php``` to collect the latest product versions from vendor websites. Limit requests, so web servers will not overload.
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For data export to webpage, RSS feed and Twitter use output of ```PatchViewer.php```, ```PatchFeeder.php``` or ```PatchTwitter.php```. Twitter requires a separate [developer registration](https://developer.twitter.com/).
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## Writing web scraper
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* Inherit from ```PatchBase``` base class:
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```
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class MyProgram extends PatchBase {
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function __construct() {
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parent::__construct('Vendor', 'Product', 'https://www.vendor.com/product/');
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[$this->patch->setBranch('Branch');]
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}
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...
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}
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```
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* Implement ```check()``` method to extract version information from website using this template:
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```
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function check() : bool {
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if ($this->fetch[_json]('https://www.url.com/'))
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return $this->parse...
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return false;
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}
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```
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* Currently available parser functions for JSON and RegEx:
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* ```parse_json(string)```
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* ```parse(string)```
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