I would like to learn how to build a background running program that
track all questions of ruby related questions on Stack Overflow
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?tagged=ruby and alert to me
somehow.
But the question is how do I know when new questions has asked on Stack
Overflow and get only those?
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You fetch it regularely (but don't abuse the service) and diff what has changed; you could use the "creation_date", "last_edit_date" or "last_activity_date" to figure out which ones you want to see.
HTH
On 15.09.2011 11:39, Samnang Chhun wrote:
I would like to learn how to build a background running program that
track all questions of ruby related questions on Stack Overflow
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?tagged=ruby and alert to me
somehow.But the question is how do I know when new questions has asked on Stack
Overflow and get only those?
Just in case you didn't know:
* There is already an RSS feed for these: feed://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/ruby
* If you hover the "ruby" tag on the site, the box that comes up has a "subscribe" link at the top that emails you new questions daily.
Not that I'm trying to dissuade you from some good Ruby programming fun, mind you. 
On Sep 15, 2011, at 3:39 AM, Samnang Chhun wrote:
I would like to learn how to build a background running program that
track all questions of ruby related questions on Stack Overflow
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?tagged=ruby and alert to me
somehow.But the question is how do I know when new questions has asked on Stack
Overflow and get only those?
Save the date ("last_activity_date", or "creation_date" are good
candidates, depending on the definition of "new") of the last seen
item, and compare it to the dates in the re-fetched feed. Any thing
that's newer than the date saved is new.
No diffing necessary.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name> wrote:
You fetch it regularely (but don't abuse the service) and diff what has
changed; you could use the "creation_date", "last_edit_date" or
"last_activity_date" to figure out which ones you want to see.
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Gavin Kistner wrote in post #1022144:
Not that I'm trying to dissuade you from some good Ruby programming fun,
mind you.
Yes, that's just for fun
Thank everyone, it's very helpful information.
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