Ask HN: Is there a service that can mail me random links from a website?

1 points by g123g 12y ago ↗ HN

My use case is the following -<p>I want to get random Java doc pages from JAVA API documentation. So one day I want to the following link in mail -<p>http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/AbstractAction.html<p>and the next day -<p>http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/AbstractMap.html<p>My aim is to go over some random Java class documentation to know about some classes about which I have no knowledge.<p>Is there some service that can do something like this?

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pjbringer 12y ago ↗

In your specific case, you could just just grab all the classes in a big list [1], and pick at random from them.

You don't need to do much to figure out the url from the names, so it's really only the list of names you need.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/allclasses-frame.ht...

g123g 12y ago ↗

Yes, I could do that but I just wanted to check if there is already some service that does this.

I think this could be a nice side project - A daily reminder service to go over a subset of some content.