Is it possible to have a cron job on my shared server which pushes desktop notifications to me?

Asked Sep 07 '16 at 06:14

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So I have a few websites I need to check very regularly for updated stock.

These websites do not offer an RSS feed of any sort, but I can write a script to scrape their pages and find out if they've updated.

Next step, I want to run this script as a cron job on my shared web server (possible) so that it runs every 10 minutes or so.

But I now want the same cron to push a desktop notification to me if there is an update. Is this possible? I know gmail has desktop notifications which work without having the website open, so I feel as though it's possible.

But am not sure where to start. Is there a library in PHP which allows this?

edited Sep 07 '16 at 06:26

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Check this --- [How to create cron job using PHP?] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18737407/how-to-create-cron-job-using-php – Rasa Mohamed Sep 07 '16 at 06:20
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I know how to create a cron, but that's not what I'm asking here. – Keir Simmons Oct 09 '16 at 13:08

Is it possible to have a cron job on my shared server which pushes desktop notifications to me?

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