...you could use Python launched by a windows scheduled task.

I've done it once (not scheduled and without e-mail).
Bit overkill but did the job (wanted to find posts with some info in a place without search, where you could only change pages).

Docs:

The http libraries allow you to connect to the page as if you were a browser.
Then it's just a matter of searching for your keywords.

Here's for e-mail.

And in general, how to learn Python the hard way










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