wristwatch 1.3.0

Yet another Python watcher for website updates.

wristwatch

Yet another Python watcher for website updates.

 

Features

• Selecting elements to watch with CSS selectors.
• Automatic importing of cookies from many browsers.
• Emailing the changes to yourself.
• Other features...

You can safely quit watching at any time by pressing Ctrl+C.

 

Installation

After having installed Python 3 with pip, you can install wristwatch using the following command:

pip install wristwatch

 

Arguments

Command	Example	Description
	"https://example.com/"	The URL of the webpage to scrape.
-b --browser	-b "chrome"	Name of the browser to get cookies from (by default, any browser possible). See --help for supported browsers.
-f --frequency	-f 60	Frequency of fetches in seconds (default: 60).
-s --selector	-s "#minutes" -s "#hours"	CSS selector of element(s) to scrape. Can be used multiple times.
-a --attribute	-a "href" -a "title"	Attribute of the element(s) to scrape. Can be used multiple times. Can also be "text" to scrape the text content.
-e --email	-e "[e-mail]"	Email address to self-send the changes to.
-p --password	-p "aaaa bbbb cccc dddd"	Email "app" password. Here's a guide on how to generate one.
-i --input	-i "input.txt"	Load the first fetch from a file.
-o --output	-o "output.txt"	Save the last fetch to a file.
-q --quiet	-q	Decrease output verbosity.
-l --loop	-l	Keep watching for changes even after the first one.
-c --chime	-c	Play a sound when changes are detected.
-v --version	-v	Show the program's version.
-h --help	-h	Show the help message on how to use the program.

 

Examples

wristwatch "https://relaxingclock.com" -s "#minutes" -f 5 -a -l

 

Screenshots

 

Changelog

This changelog only includes changes that are worth mentioning.

• 1.0.0:
  - Initial release.
  • 1.0.1
    -Specified dependencies version requirements
  • 1.0.2
    -Fixed --loop argument not working
• 1.1.0:
  - Added --alert argument to play a sound when changes are detected.
• 1.2.0:
  - Added --debug argument to show debug info & error messages.
  - Changed "rookiepy" dependency for "browser-cookie3"
  - Better error handling.
• 1.3.0:
  - Added --attribute argument to scrape attributes and text content.
  - Changed --alert argument name to --chime
  - Better error handling.