urlwatch(1)
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/