Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.

2010-05-27 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux Uncategorized

If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down).

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================

#          FILE: checklinks.sh

#         USAGE: ./checklinks.sh

#   DESCRIPTION: Check if the links exists on affiliate sites

#       OPTIONS: —
# REQUIREMENTS: —
#          BUGS: —
#         NOTES: —
#        AUTHOR: <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in">Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
#       COMPANY: Individual
#       VERSION: 1.0
#       CREATED: 04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST
#      REVISION: —
#===============================================================================
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Transfer all the google feed URLs to rss2email.

2010-05-09 1 min read Fedora Linux

Next step in restoring my settings was to get the working rules and all the blogs into rss2email. I have subscribed to more than 150 blogs. So, adding all of them manually was difficult.

For a time like this, I subscribe to all the blogs using google reader and then add them to rss2email. So I had quickly exported the google feeds list and then had to find a way to extract the URLs for the blog to the rss2email. The command to add a url is r2e add, so I wrote this one line just now to do the task for me.

Email web statistics from the hosted website using awstats page.

2010-03-08 2 min read Fedora Linux

I want to see the stats for my websites mailed to me directly like Google analytics does. Sure enough I can see them on the hosting cpanel page on awstats, but I dont want to check that everyday. An easier solution would be to have that mailed to my email address everyday using cron. Let’s try to do that today:

First we would need to get the address of the page for the statistics, which would look like this:

Simple rss to email service for your feeds on Linux with your/ISP server.

2010-01-01 2 min read Fedora Linux

I like couple of blogs and feeds but the problem is that I keep forgetting to run the rss reader and would rather like to have the rss article’s emailed to me at regular intervals so that I can read them when I want to without having to make sure that I am at my desktop at home computer or remembering to start the rss client. That sounds simple and do-able so lets try to do that.

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