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Okay, I updated it to also look for the permission denied page at the URL that more closely looks like the same structure as the bronco sport. #!/bin/bash #Specify the expected utl for the build pages url1=https://shop.ford.com/configure/bronco/model/...

That's a great clue. The access denied suggests that the resource exists, but it just not available to the public yet. I think that's that target that the script needs to point at.

Yeah I'm tracking LOL. I actually took an 8 year haitus from Cyber/IT stuff to go do a pretty cool physical security gig. Designated Marksman school was one of the better courses I ever took. The math in that class was harder than any computer class I've ever taken. The learning curve coming...

No but that's a good point. But like I said in the original post, this was just my best guess at what it would look like. Could go in and add functionality to match whatever format they are using for the sport as well...

Yeah no doubt. But that still means I have to be actively monitoring those inputs to know as opposed to be doing whatever and just hear the audible notification

Overall a good policy you have there. That being said, this is what is referred to as "open source" code which means it's completely transparent as to what it does (to those who know Linux commands). There have already been some folks in here that have demonstrated good technical knowledge and...

By all means, improve it. Thanks

Valid point. As you can probably tell from my profile, I don't spend as much time here as some do. Plus I just like the fact that I can be watching the football game and now that when that site goes live, I will get an audible notification without having to be watching my computer screen. But...

Let me check.... (This is a joke y'all. I made that up. )

Haha, and now that I think about it, what I did there didn't even pull all the images from the webpage which would be where the large amounts of data are. It would probably take a year of running my script to equal one normal visit to their webpage.

I went ahead and did the math on it. WIth this script running every 20 minutes, it would take approximately 26.5 days for it to pull as much data from the server as loading the B&P page one time in a browser. You also made a reference to 'patching' which implies that I'm exploiting a...

I understand your concern. But what this is doing is a GET request for only the header of the site to see what the HTTP Status code reply is. That is a minuscule amount of traffic and especially at a 20 minute interval, would not even be a blip on the radar in comparison to their normal daily...

Good point. It is kind of inconvenient to have to leave it running 24/7 on your main system. I stood it up on a raspberry pi just to give me the audible notification.

I might be at that level in say 5 years. I would actually love to get a 3d printer to play with. But for now, I do really well to pull off a simple bash script like this one. Full on programming is not in my wheelhouse.

Haha, actually I'm pretty sure some folks have already rigged up something much cooler than what I did to let them know and they will likely beat me to the page. I imagine a string tied to an oscillating fan that makes it push the F5 key every rotation.

I have not tried it on my Mac but my guess would be yes it would work. Not just from command line in terminal, but as a script.

Valid point. That's why I stayed polite with mine. If someone got really aggressive with it, I imagine Ford would just shun their IP and then they would find it difficult to actually go build their Bronco so it's in everyone's best interest to play nice. I know when I am awake I'm probably...