j3k0 / sitediff

Monitor changes from a list of websites

sitediff

Monitor daily changes from a list of websites.

Usage

1- Install dependencies

• curl
• htmlq (used for HTML documents)
• html2text
• jq (only used for JSON documents)

2- Create your MONITORS.txt file

Line format can be:

URL XpathQuery
URL jq jqFilter
# comment

• URL is passed to curl for downloading the content.
• XPathQuery is passed to htmlq to isolate the content of interest.
• jqFilter is passed to jq

Lines starting with # are ignored.

Check MONITORS.example.txt for an example.

License

GPL