Alright well for those of you looking for an automated solution you can go get Python 3 or later and use my script
here
it's setup for narutobase.net but it would be pretty easy to adapt it to any given site (so long as you don't have to log in, that required https authentication and is more than a simple code change)
to use this you'll need to have a URL that you can go to before and after the anime/manga/what_have_you is published
for example,
www.narutobase.net/manga/naruto/900 won't 404 because they have their own little 404 page, and the URL doesn't change when the 900'th chapter would be published, only the HTML changes
this python just reads the HTML, checks if a string of characters is on the page, and stops when it's found (optionally texting you)
if you want to use this for something else other than the naruto manga, on any other site, you'll need to:
remove line 42
line 81: contains the URL of the page that is checked for the key phrase (or snippet of code, like if when your anime is published the change is an embedded video being added to the page) and should be changed to
Code:
MyHttp = urlopen("http://www.whatever.com/sweetDamn").read()
line 84: contains the actual phrase that you're looking for to not be there anymore (for example, when the words 'this episode hasn't aired yet' aren't there, then that means it is there and you should be notified)
lines 85 and 87... and any print() line that contains the word 'manga' can be changed, it's all just information, you can have it say 'fuck me silly' if nothing is found each time, doesn't matter
the script will currently error on 404, but since some sites don't have their own little 404 pages then this won't work on those, but if anyone needs something like that (check when the URL doesn't 404) then i can change the code around pretty quick, tho if this goes utterly unused then w/e too
also it errors on 401 403 and 503 errors for when the site is down, when you need to login, and when you're not allowed to visit that site
what else... uhh... sometimes if your site times out it will error, i have it set to text you when that occurs, but no more than 5 times, and if you don't have internet then it should wait 1 hour and restart
if your carrier isn't i the dictionary at the top feel free to add it if you can find your carrier's e-mail, just make sure it's in the same format as the ones in there already
...uhhh oh currently it only supports texting with a gmail account, but if you really wanna use another provider then change line 20 to be @whatever.com
and line 23 to be that provider's smtp server and/or port, but i've only used this with my gmail account :P
if anyone has any questions, needs it customized for a particular website and that site's little... idk nuances? feel free to ask
i keep this running 24/7 on my computer at work and i get notified of the chapter's upload before it is posted on the site's front page