'How do I check if there is an update to a website with python?
I am a beginner to web scraping, and I was wondering how could I check if a website I'm currently scanning gets an update. I want to make a discord bot that retrieves information from my local school's website (I have permission). My only issue with this project is that I want to keep track of the announcements they have listed on their site, and once they post it, I want the discord bot to immediately post it on discord. I do not have any code I have written yet because I am a little stumped on how I should approach this. Thank you in advance for any suggestions!
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Maybe you can apply a hash function to the text string content you get when you scrape the website, store the resulting hash, and when you scrap the website again apply a hash function again and compare the new hash vs the old, if the hash has changed then you know the content of the site has changed.
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