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URLWATCH(1) User Commands URLWATCH(1)

urlwatch - monitors webpages for you

urlwatch [options]

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.

show this help message and exit
show program's version number and exit
show debug output

read job list (URLs) from FILE
read configuration from FILE
use FILE as hooks.py module
use FILE as cache database

Enter password for SMTP (store in keyring)
List telegram chats the bot is joined to
Send a test notification to Slack

list jobs
add job (key1=value1,key2=value2,...)
delete job by location or index
test filter output of job by location or index

edit URL/job list
edit configuration file
edit hooks script

list supported jobs/filters/reporters
remove old cache entries

$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)

Thomas Perl <thp.io/about>

https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/

January 2019 urlwatch 2.16