If you view your homenode in xml, there is "updated" (as in <node id="442602" title="planetscape" created="2005-03-27 04:28:58" updated="2008-01-24 22:33:38">)

So perhaps if that date is within a certain time limit, you may want to look at their coordinates to see if they've changed?

What I'm trying to minimize is the number of times I have to fetch somebody's home node. Once I got it, I can just as well parse the coordinates.

Fetching one single page with an overview with all recent changes for all users would have been useful. Fetching a page for every individual user, not so much.

Oh, I see. I guess I was thinking (?) that you would narrow down the list of users fetched by those appearing only in Other Users, or some similar criteria.

HTH,

planetscape

You probably have to check "This is a significant update" for that.

Yes, I think so too.

There is no usable XML view.

This seems to work:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

open( my $fh, '<', "/home/joerg/dump.html" ) or die $!;
my $html = do { local( $/ ); <$fh> };
close $fh;

my @nodes;

while ( $html =~ s!<tr><td><a href="\?node_id=(\d+)">([^<]+)</a></td><
+td>\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d \d\d:\d\d:\d\d</td></tr>!! ) {
    push @nodes, [ $2, $1 ];
}

print "@{$_}\n" for @nodes;
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