urlwatch - Man Page
monitors webpages for you
Synopsis
urlwatch [options]
Description
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, ā--help
show this help message and exit
- --version
show program's version number and exit
- -v, ā--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)
Author
Thomas Perl <thp.io/about>