Wow, please don't be discouraged by all the negativity. Sure there are plugins and scripts to do this but I, like you, don't like installing many plugins and I'd use this so rarely that I'd forget where the script was by the time I needed it. So having this bookmarked for those odd occasions when I'd use it is the perfect solution.<p>Furthermore I'd say the current comments exemplify why many like myself no longer share or comment much on HN these days. Say what you will but the quality of discussions is devolving into a big who-can-act-more-jaded-and-know-it-all-ish contest. I'd be willing to bet there are just tons of people who'd want something like this. It's not about "oh there are better solutions" or "more elegant" solutions. It comes down to personal preference and tastes. For every person who's too cool for a browser based solutions there are ten more who'd rather have this than a plugin but don't say anything and just use it.
Cool project! I also use a browser extension for this currently, but the obvious advantage to this is you can use it on any browser immediately as long as you remember the domain name.<p>One suggestion - it would be a bit more useful if you hid the top bar while it's in "refreshing mode", and made the iframe take up the whole page. You could put a little icon in one of the top corners to reveal it again. I've used tools like this in the past to show analytics and news dashboards, and you typically want to keep as much screen real estate as possible.
This feature is built-in to Opera, in case anyone needs to use it regularly.<p>Right-click any page, and select "Reload Every..." and choose an interval. Very handy.
I use this, when needed<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-reload/ofojbjgaaddibdfpmmjeonahgbacejid" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-reload/ofojbj...</a>
I don't have an issue with this specifically (like apparently a few others do), but I'm wondering if you could walk me through a use-case.<p>You mention tickets for Coachella. Ok, so I want to go, but I'm waiting for the tickets to go on sale.<p>If I understand what you've built, I have to sit here watching the page refresh, which means I could just as easily press refresh.
What I want to know is has the page changed! Is the action I wanted to take now available. How does your site really resolve that problem?
An unbelievable number of scripts implementing a browser built-in/extension, leading to this (Opera):<p><pre><code> Error
https://play.google.com/store
The website does not permit its content to be displayed in a frame. It must be displayed in a separate window.
</code></pre>
There are definitely better solutions.
It would be cool if you updated the page title to reflect that of the page in the iframe. That way if the page title changes I can see it immediately in the browser tab.
What's this for? If I ever need auto-refresh I'll just install an addon or extension. I already can't remember the URL for this. Or if I don't have an addon installed, I could just write a Javascript one-liner in the javascript console.