kibitzr 6.0.0

Self hosted web page changes monitoring

Kibitzr is like a secret twin brother who does routine tasks and asks for nothing in return.

• Problems? Ask in issues, or gitter
• Documentation: https://kibitzr.readthedocs.io.
• Free software: MIT license

Changelog

Unreleased

[6.0.0] - 2019-08-06

Removed

• Support for Python 2.6, 3.4 ## Added
• Support for Python 3.7

[5.4.4] - 2019-08-06

Fixed

• skip handling of unsupported SIGUSR1 under Windows #73. ## Added
• provide context for {{ env }} dictionary in all Jinja templates.

[5.4.3] - 2019-06-07

Fixed

• Fixed xpath in Jinja transform for attribute and namespace access (#81 thanks to @mstarzyk).

[5.4.2] - 2018-12-27

Changed

• Better support for dynamic forms filling. Check only first form field for accessibility.
• Changed bash to shell in docs and added alias.

[5.4.1] - 2018-11-27

Changed

• Replaced option verify_cert with verify-cert for consistency.

[5.4.0] - 2018-10-20

Added

• Schedule option (#71 thanks to @cescobarresi).
• Option to omit HTTPS certificate verification in simple fetcher (#72 thanks to @cescobarresi).

[5.3.5] - 2018-10-02

Added

• Telegram notifier option split-on (#70 thanks to @cescobarresi). ## Changed
• Fixed xpath transform for attribute and namespace access (#68 thanks to @cescobarresi).

[5.3.4] - 2018-09-28

Added

• xpath-all transform (#67 thanks to @cescobarresi).

[5.3.3] - 2018-08-24

Added

• [undocumented] before_start extension interface.

[5.3.2] - 2018-08-16

Changed

• Made custom Jinja filters ignore None values.
• convert lxml to defusedxml in transformer/html.py (#61 thanks to @unit-00).

[5.3.1] - 2018-07-06

Added

• [undocumented] CLI extension interface.

[5.3.0.alpha] - 2018-05-06

Added

• [undocumented] fetcher extension interface.

[5.2.0] - 2018-05-06

Changed

• kibitzr firefox now prompts for Return to save profile.
• Firefox profile directory path moved to capabilities in the new version.

[5.1.1] - 2018-04-19

Added

• kibitzr stash command to show stash contents.

[5.1.0] - 2018-04-10

Added

• kibitzr clean command to delete changes history (#13 thanks to @attilanagy).
• Jinja filters: int and float.

[5.0.0] - 2017-12-16

Changed

• Dropped support for Firefox < 56 (using -headless instead of XVFB).

[4.0.10] - 2017-08-28

Changed

• Fix #47: Xpath transform encodes content to UTF-8 before parsing (X|HT)ML.

[4.0.9] - 2017-08-21

Fixed

• Allow SMTP without authentication. ## Changed
• Use local SMTP server by default.

[4.0.8] - 2017-08-02

Fixed

• Fixed xpath selector transform.

[4.0.7] - 2017-06-29

Fixed

• Fixed interruption exit code (1).

[4.0.6] - 2017-06-28

Fixed

• Exit(2) when receiving SIGTERM/SIGINT.

[4.0.5] - 2017-06-14

Fixed

• Exit(1) Kibitzr when Firefox goes funny business.

[4.0.4] - 2017-06-07

Changed

• Firefox fetcher: Implicitly wait 2 seconds for selects.
• Firefox fetcher: Resize window before each fetch. ## Fixed
• bash transform: Skip execution for empty content.

[4.0.3] - 2017-05-25

Added

• Changes style “new” - show only current content if it changed. ## Fixed
• text filter in Jinja templates.
• Adapted list of requirements for Windows.

[4.0.2] - 2017-05-21

Added

• Explicit telegram imprinting. ## Fixed
• Dynamically import only what’s needed in checks.
• Better Windows support.
• Support for non-ascii URLs.

[4.0.1] - 2017-05-10

Added

• Credentials extensions through entry points (for kibitzr-keyring).

[4.0.0] - 2017-05-08

Added

• kibitzr init - create sample configuration files. ## Changed
• Changed kibitzr CLI commands structure (kibitzr run instead of kibitzr).

[3.1.8] - 2017-05-08

Fixed

• Unspecified period caused error (introduced in 3.1.4).

[3.1.7] - 2017-05-06

Fixed

• Gracefull shutdown on SIGTERM (as on SIGINT).

[3.1.6] - 2017-05-05

Fixed

• Jinja transform. ## Added
• CHANGELOG to PyPI page.

[3.1.4] - 2017-05-04

Changed

• human-readable period.

[3.1.3] - 2017-05-01

Fixed

• Bash and Python transforms parameter (dis)order.
• Skip Bash transform if input is empty. ## Changed
• Requests fetcher uses caching.

[3.1.0] - 2017-05-01

Added

• Jinja transform. ## Removed
• cut and sort transforms (superseded by bash).

[3.0.11] - 2017-04-30

Added

• Browser form filling shorthand.

[3.0.10] - 2017-04-29

Added

• Bash transform. ## Fixed
• jq transform input encoding.

[3.0.9] - 2017-04-25

Fixed

• Firefox fetcher: retry 3 times on stale element exception.
• Persistent Firefox: Ignore all exceptions when closing.

[3.0.8] - 2017-04-24

Added

• Transformer css-all selector which returns all elements instead of first.
• Python transformer. ## Changed
• Missing check name autopopulated from URL or autogenerated.

[3.0.7] - 2017-04-19

Added

• Zapier notifier.

[3.0.6] - 2017-04-19

Added

• Telegram notifier.

[3.0.3] - 2017-04-18

Added

• Persistent firefox profile [undocumented].

[3.0.2] - 2017-04-18

Added

• Short form for SMTP notifier #11. ## Fixed
• Weird BS4 misbehaviour in CSS selector.

[3.0.1] - 2017-04-07

Fixed

• Exit if no checks defined.
• Better credentials reloading.

[3.0.0] - 2017-04-04

Changed

• Switched to selenium >3 and Firefox >48.

[2.7.4] - 2017-04-01

Changed

• Closing FireFox tab after it was fetched to reduce idle CPU.

[2.7.3] - 2017-03-31

Added

• Started CHANGELOG.
• script.python fetcher.