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urlwatch

NAME

urlwatch - Watch web pages and arbitrary URLs for changes

SYNOPSIS

urlwatch [options]

DESCRIPTION

urlwatch watches a list of URLs for changes and prints out unified diffs of the changes. You can filter always-changing parts of websites by providing a "hooks.py" script.

OPTIONS

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show the help message and exit

-v, --verbose

Show debug/log output

--urls=FILE

Read URLs from the specified file

--hooks=FILE

Use specified file as hooks.py module

-e, --display-errors

Include HTTP errors (404, etc..) in the output

FILES

~/.urlwatch/urls.txt

A list of HTTP/FTP URLs to watch (one URL per line)

~/.urlwatch/lib/hooks.py

A Python module that can be used to filter contents

~/.urlwatch/cache/

The state of web pages is saved in this folder

AUTHOR

Thomas Perl <thp@thpinfo.com>

WEBSITE

http://thpinfo.com/2008/urlwatch/