Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : MailWebsiteChanges Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : DG <debiang...@gmx.de> * URL : https://github.com/Debianguru/MailWebsiteChanges * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python script to keep track of website updates; sends email notifications and provides RSS2 feed
Python script to keep track of website changes; sends email notifications on updates and/or also provides an RSS feed To specify which parts of a website should be monitored, XPath selectors (e.g. "//h1"), CSS selectors (e.g. "h1"), and regular expressions can be used (just choose the tools you like!). MailWebsiteChanges is related to PageMonitor for Chrome and AlertBox / Check4Change for Firefox. However, instead of living in your web browser, you can run it independently from command line / bash and install it as a simple cron job running on your linux server. - why is this package useful/relevant? It can run as a cronjob, frequently polling websites for changes. The application notifies the user by sending mail messages or updating an RSS2 feed in case of changes. - is it a dependency for another package? No. - do you use it? Yes, every day. I uploaded it to Github for public availability. - if there are other packages providing similar functionality, how does it compare? There are related tools like urlwatch, however, MailWebsiteChanges offers much more finegranular features like CSS/XPath/regex parsing of XML/HTML content, allowing for monitoring specific parts of websites, not just the whole content that is delivered by the webserver. It also provides an RSS2 feed. - how do you plan to maintain it? inside a packaging team I plan to continue development of this tool on github and would be happy to help packaging it -- however, since I never did packaging before, I would highly appreciate your help. Sourcecode is availabile here: https://github.com/Debianguru/MailWebsiteChanges Requires Python3, lxml, and cssselect -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140501110012.901.70579.reportbug@laptop