Fear of another miss. No more !

If you are like me, you wait constantly for the update of a particular webpage. But it's boring to have to refresh the page every 10 seconds to be sure to have the information as soon as possible.

Introducing Foam, the Chrome extension that checks this for you.

The extension has the following workflow:

1. Fetch the desired webpage
2. Parse the HTML to extract the content
3. If the content has changed, notify!
4. Wait and go to 1.

The extension is currently under development, so it has no official release on the Chrome store. To manually install it:

1. Download the zip of the extension
2. Extract it on your computer
3. Go to chrome:https://extensions/
4. Check that you are in Developer mode
5. Click on Load unpacked extension...
6. Enjoy!

You can access the configuration page by clicking on the icon in the extension bar, or from the extension page (Options).

The configuration page has the following options:

• status
  • running or stopped
• Config
  • Save: Save in memory the current state of the option page, will override any existing configuration.
  • New: Add a configuration line.
  • Reload: Load the saved configuration from memory and display it in the page. Will override any unsaved configuration.
• Runtime
  • Stop: Stop the exectution, the status will become 'stopped'.
  • Start: Start the exectution, the status will become 'running'.
  • Restart: Stop and Start the exectution, the status will become 'running'.

Note that the new configuration will not be applied when you click Save, you have to manually restart.

If the content you want to track is the first one in a list, just choose a selector that will select every element in the list. When parsing the HTML, only the first element matching the selector will be chosen.

I would be glad to have any feedback on the extension. Whether positive or negative. Considere openning an issue or a pull request.

MIT