diff --git a/docs/batchCodeTable.html b/docs/batchCodeTable.html
index 5c353b74f5f..24856a00f35 100644
--- a/docs/batchCodeTable.html
+++ b/docs/batchCodeTable.html
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
     </label>
   <h2 class="heading"></h2>
   <p>
-    <b>Check out your batch code</b> (Last updated: March 4, 2022)
+    <b>Check out your batch code</b> (Last updated: <span id="last_updated">March 4, 2022</span>)
   </p>
   <p>
   <table class="display" id="batchCodeTable">
diff --git a/docs/intensivstationen.html b/docs/intensivstationen.html
index 339c70fbb1a..074e8ab19f2 100644
--- a/docs/intensivstationen.html
+++ b/docs/intensivstationen.html
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@
       <dt>Datensatz:</dt>
       <dd><a href="https://www.intensivregister.de/#/aktuelle-lage/downloads" target="_blank">Landkreis-Daten</a></dd>
       <dt>Datenstand:</dt>
-      <dd>05.03.2022, 12:38 Uhr</dd>
+      <dd id="Datenstand">05.03.2022, 12:38 Uhr</dd>
     </dl>
 </body>
 
diff --git a/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb b/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
index 671b1deeff7..5ecd236e50e 100644
--- a/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
+++ b/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
@@ -14,6 +14,42 @@
     "pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None)"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "1dbf9321",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n",
+    "import requests\n",
+    "import re\n",
+    "from dateutil.parser import parse\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def needsUpdate():\n",
+    "    return _getLastUpdatedHowbadismybatch() < _getLastUpdatedOriginal()\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "def _getLastUpdatedHowbadismybatch():\n",
+    "    return _getLastUpdated(\n",
+    "        url = \"https://knollfrank.github.io/HowBadIsMyBatch/batchCodeTable.html\",\n",
+    "        getDateStr = lambda soup: soup.find(id = \"last_updated\").text)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def _getLastUpdatedOriginal():\n",
+    "    def getDateStr(soup):\n",
+    "        lastUpdated = soup.find(string = re.compile(\"Last updated\"))\n",
+    "        return re.search('Last updated: (.+).', lastUpdated).group(1)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    return _getLastUpdated(url = \"https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html\", getDateStr = getDateStr)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def _getLastUpdated(url, getDateStr):\n",
+    "    htmlContent = requests.get(url).text\n",
+    "    soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlContent, \"lxml\")\n",
+    "    dateStr = getDateStr(soup)\n",
+    "    return parse(dateStr).date()\n",
+    "\n",
+    "print('needsUpdate: ', needsUpdate())"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,