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What are we going to build?

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What are we going to build?

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- [Instructor] As a course creator, I need to constantly check for updated content on the pages I use to create my courses. For example, I have preparation courses for passing some Azure Certification exams. The problem is that I don't know when the content has changed, so I have to constantly visit the websites by opening the browser, navigating to the page, and then hoping to find some text or visual cue indicating a recent update. For this reason, I created the WebsiteWatcher Project, an Azure functions application designed to detect changes in websites content. The WebsiteWatcher application includes five functions. The Register function enables users to send a website URL and an XPath expression that reflects the content they want to track for changes. This function is triggered by the HTTP request that users send. It includes a SQL output binding for writing the data to a SQL database. The Snapshot function is responsible for obtaining the content from the website and storing…

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