urlwatch monitors webpages for you

urlwatch is intended to help you watch changes in webpages and get notified (via e-mail, in your terminal or through various third party services) of any changes. The change notification will include the URL that has changed and a summary of what has changed.

Documentation

The urlwatch handbook is an in-depth guide on how to use and configure the tool.

Download

• Source: urlwatch-2.23.tar.gz (2021-04-10)
• Github: github.com/thp/urlwatch
• PyPI: pypi.org/project/urlwatch
• Repology: repology.org/project/urlwatch

Features

• Extensible YAML-based configuration file, minidb-based cache
• Uses Concurrent downloads and If-Modified-Since for speed
• Support for using HTTP POST with data and custom HTTP methods
• Convert HTML to plaintext using lynx, html2text or a regex
• Watch output of shell commands, create custom job types
• Wide range of built-in filters, and support for writing your own
• Send changes via e-mail, optionally also as HTML
• Colored diff output on the console (can be turned off)
• Sends a proper User-agent header

Installation

If you have Python 3 and pip (the Python package manager) installed, you can install the latest version and its dependencies using the following command:

pip3 install --upgrade urlwatch