Questions tagged [google-alerts]

Monitor the Web for interesting new content

Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, that automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs, video and/or discussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by the user and stored by the Google Alerts service.

Notifications can be sent by email, as a web feed, or displayed on the page.

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How to parse the data from Google Alerts?

Firstly, How would you get Google Alerts information into a database other than to parse the text of the email message that Google sends you? It seems that there is no Google Alerts API. If you must parse text, how would you go about parsing out…
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Google Alerts web API for Python?

Google web APIs have a Python library. Google Alerts has an email and an RSS feed. Does anyone know of an automated way to add Google Alerts through a web API in Python? That is, without clicking. Note: the related question doesn't answer the web…
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parsing google alert feed

I try to parse a Google Alert feed via ajax but I get exception. This is what I tried: $(document).ready(function () { $.ajax({ url: 'http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/01662123773360489091/16526224428036307178', type: 'GET', …
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How to monitor Google Alert RSS feed produced "as-it-happens"?

I have a Google Alert, which I set to be delivered as an RSS feed as-it-happens But is polling that RSS feed the only way to get RSS feed or is there a way to get notified from Google alert as the feed is published from Google? (say through a…
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How to create new google alert delivering it to feed, using PHP cURL

All i need - it is create google alert connected to my account, which should be delivered to my feed. For auth i'm using curl function googleAuthenticate($username, $password, $source, $service = 'alerts') { $session_token = $source . '_' . $service…
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Google Alert API for PHP

Is there any free Google alert Api out there ? I am trying to build the php application with google alert. But it seems that there is no such api
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Process notifications from Google Alert (using PubSubHubbub): PHP or Python

I have created some custom alerts using Google alerts. I have set the alerts up so that they are sent to my Google account (RSS) feed. According to the deliver to RSS feed section, "Developers and feed readers can receive real-time updates by…
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GCP Alert notification is sending only once

I setup Alert Monitoring for pubsub subscription like below: I was expecting this to fire every 2 minutes, since the condition is met throughout. But I got the notification only one time. I also tried with duration 1 minute. Still no luck. What am…
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Python - Get redirected url of links from Google Alerts feeds

If you create a google alert as a rss feed (not automaticcaly sent to your e-mail address), it contains links like this one:…
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Corrupted UTF-8 encoding when reading Google feed / alerts

Whenever I try to read a Google alert via PHP using something like: $feed = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/01445174399729103044/950192755411504138"); Regardless of whether I save the $feed to a file or echo the result to the…
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How to find Google Alert feed url?

How can I find Google Alert feed url for specific keyword? Example URL: http://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=tr#stream/user/13172112245289928208/state/com.google/alerts/10573968695315493577 Number in red box indicates user id and number inside…
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Enable notifications on CloudSQL scheduled/sudden maintenance

I want to enable slack and email notifications for GCP CloudSQL instances's maintenance. When i go to each one of CloudSQL instances, I can see notifications are off in maintenance settings. However when i try to edit maintenance and notification …
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How to configure Google Workspace Alert Center to publish alerts to a PubSub topic?

I'm building a notification system that will notify employees on slack when they take an action that triggers a DLP Rule. The ideal flow I'm trying to get at is: Employee takes action > Rule triggered > Alert is published to PubSub topic > Triggers…
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Do Google Alerts pubsubhubub subscriptions stop 30 days after the listed expiration time?

I've successfully subscribed to a Google Alert feed using PubSubHubbub and the appspot hub and received updates to my callback regularly, but now the updates have stopped. I've verified the subscription is still valid using the Subscriber…
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Metric for Number of unacknowledged messages older than 20 minutes

I am trying to set up alerts on pubsub in gcp that monitor the number of old messages in a queue. Specifically the number of unacknowledged messages older than 20 minutes. I want an alert that because number of unacknowledged messages cloud shoot…
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