urlwatch - Man Page

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 unified diff of what has changed.

optional arguments

-h, --help: show this help message and exit
--version: show program's version number and exit
-v, --verbose: show debug output

files and directories

--urls FILE: read job list (URLs) from FILE
--config FILE: read configuration from FILE
--hooks FILE: use FILE as hooks.py module
--cache FILE: use FILE as cache database

Authentication

--smtp-login: Enter password for SMTP (store in keyring)
--telegram-chats: List telegram chats the bot is joined to
--test-slack: Send a test notification to Slack

job list management

--list: list jobs
--add JOB: add job (key1=value1,key2=value2,...)
--delete JOB: delete job by location or index
--test-filter JOB: test filter output of job by location or index

interactive commands ($EDITOR/$VISUAL)

--edit: edit URL/job list
--edit-config: edit configuration file
--edit-hooks: edit hooks script

miscellaneous

--features: list supported jobs/filters/reporters
--gc-cache: remove old cache entries

Files

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/urlwatch/urls.yaml: A list of URLs, commands and other jobs to watch
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/urlwatch/hooks.py: A Python module that can implement new job types, filters and reporters
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/urlwatch/cache.db: A SQLite 3 database that contains the state history of jobs (for diffing)