urlwatch: a tool for monitoring webpages for updates

urlwatch is intended to help you watch changes in webpages and get notified (via email, in your terminal or with a custom-written reporter class) of any changes. The change notification will include the URL that has changed and a unified diff of what has changed.

urlwatch is open source under a BSD-style license.

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

Download

• Current version: urlwatch-2.5.tar.gz (2016-07-12)

• Git: github.com/thp/urlwatch
• PyPI: urlwatch
• Debian: urlwatch (by Franck Joncourt)
• Fedora: urlwatch (by Fabian Affolter)
• Arch Linux: urlwatch (by Balló György)
• Gentoo: www-misc/urlwatch (by Patrice Clement)
• Ubuntu: urlwatch (from Debian)
• NixOS: urlwatch