webchanges 3.1.0

Check web (or commands) for changes and notify

webchanges checks web content (or the output of local commands) for changes, and notifies you via e-mail or one of many other supported services if one is detected. The notification includes the changed URL or command and a summary of what has changed. This project is a fork of urlwatch as suggested by its author to optimize it for HTML.

Installation

webchanges is available on PyPI for (versions that have not been obsoleted by a new major release in the last 3 years) and can be installed using pip:

pip install webchanges

Optional dependencies may be needed; see here.

Documentation

The documentation is hosted on Read the Docs .

Code

The code and issues tracker are hosted on GitHub.

Quick Start

1. Run webchanges --edit to customize your job list (this will create jobs.yaml and config.yaml)

2. Run webchanges --edit-config if you want to set up e-mail sending

webchanges will check for changes every time you run it, but does not include a scheduler. We recommend using a system scheduler to automatically run webchanges periodically:

• In Linux, you can use cron; crontab.guru will build a schedule expression for you. If you have never used cron before, see here.

• On Windows, you can use the built-in Windows Task Scheduler.

Contributing

We welcome any contribution, e.g. documentation, bug reports, new features, etc., as both pull requests and issues. More information for developers and documenters is here, and our wishlist is here.

License

Released under the MIT License, but including code licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. See the license here.

Improvements from urlwatch

This fork is optimized for HTML:

• Links are clickable!

• Formatting such as bolding / headers, italics, underlining, list bullets (•) and indentation is preserved

• Added and deleted lines are highlighted with color and strikethrough

• Long lines wrap around

• HTML is rendered correctly by email clients such as Gmail who override stylesheets

• Other legibility improvements

It also has a new additions_only filter that makes it easier to track content that was added without the distractions of the content that was deleted (and a similar deletions_only one) as well as many other refinements (see changelog).

Examples: