Use this service to compare versions of web pages. It aims to replicate the Page Freezer compare service.
Read more about the website monitoring project here: https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/web-monitoring
git clone git@github.com:edgi-govdata-archiving/web-monitoring-differ.gitnpm installnpm run dev
POST to localhost:8000/diff
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
source (optional) |
Default: auto. auto=url1 and url2 can be either URLs or text. url=url1 and url2 must be URL of the target document. text=url1 and url2 contain text to compare. |
url1 |
The source URL or text |
url2 |
The target URL or text |
html (optional) |
Default: 1. 2=HTML with HEAD, 1=HTML without HEAD, 0=False (no HTML output). |
differ (optional) |
Default: git. Currently only git diff is supported |
Currently unsupported:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
diffmode (optional) |
Default: 0. 0=No pre-processing, 1=extra white spaces removed, 2=[\s]* are removed,3=HTML tags are removed for full-text comparison |
snippet (optional) |
Default: 200 (characters). It will generate snippets of changes. |
The differ will return the content of the diff, either as a raw git diff string or a blob of html depending what you specified as the html parameter.
Example:
You can contribute new diffing strageties to web-monitoring-differ by adding them as modules (see here) and then linking them in the api code here.
After that they'll be available via the differ parameter. Update the Usage docs above, and submit a pull request!