Automatic web site monitoring

There is an internal company website that the employees can log into to and trade work schedules. If they want to pick up extra shifts or give away shifts, this is where they would do it. The employee who wants to pick up some shifts has to go the web site and sit there all day refreshing the screen (clicking the date on a calendar in another frame) to see if anything new popped up, then quickly take the shift before someone else gets it.

I'd like to have a program created to automatically refresh the frame and sound some kind of alarm when a new shift appears so the employee can do other things and run to the computer when they hear the alarm. **The trick is that I CAN NOT give out the company name, the web site, log on info, etc. for security reasons. ** I will promptly test things out and provide as much information as I can, but I will not compromise the web site security. Maybe it can't be done, I don't know.

## Deliverables

**Problem:** There is a private web site area that employees of a company can sign into if they want to trade work schedules. I'm referring to a "work schedule" as a one to six day schedule offered as a block. The specific website area of concern does not refresh itself automatically. It displays a calendar, and you must double-click on the date of interest (which then turns orange) to "refresh" the list of available work schedules over and over to see if anyone has offered a new one for trade. It can take several seconds for the screen to refresh with a high speed connection, and the time it takes varies. Good work schedules can be snapped up by somebody in just a minutes after they become available, so you have to be quick. You can waste hours refreshing the screen to see if anything new has popped up, then determining if it's good or not (the right number of days, convenient check-in times, etc.).

**Solution:** I'd like to find out if it's possible for me to go that “trading screen,?? then launch a little application that will periodically double-click the date on the web page in order to refresh the screen, and monitor the block where the work schedules available for trade are shown. When a new schedule offering appears after a refresh, the program would make an audible alert sound. That way, I can do what I want and run over to the computer only when I hear the sound. Somebody suggested that it could be done by opening the web page in a special little browser that would do the monitoring.

I would want to have some kind of security added so I could recoup my costs by selling the program to other employees and they wouldn’t be able to just copy it from each other for free.

If this is possible, I would eventually want to add functionality so that it could read the work schedule info and it would only beep if it sees a new schedule that meets some specified criteria.

Each work schedule appears as one line with several fields containing some basic work schedule info. One possible complication is that the text area where the work schedules are posted (one per line) often fills up and you have to hit a scroll arrow to see the last work schedules posted.

I attached a screen shot so you can see what I'm talking about, but for security reasons, **I can not provide the website address or password. That could be a huge handicap**, but I’ll be glad to promptly try out any tests you want in order to see if it’s working properly. Feel free to ask me for whatever else I can provide which could help.

I'm also open to other possible solutions to this problem!

1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.

2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):

a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.

b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.

3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).

## Platform

Modern versions of windows (98 and later), internet explorer. Firefox compatibility would also be nice, but not required.

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