NAME
urlwatch - 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, --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)
AUTHOR
Thomas Perl <thp.io/about>