stack-watch is a Unix command-line utility for monitoring activity on the Stack Exchange network of sites. It monitors a given site and tag (optional), and will alert you periodically when updates are detected. Alternatively, stack-watch can periodically show you a list of questions with the most recent activity.

Installation

stack-watch requires libcurl and json-c. These libraries can be installed using the following commands on a Debian-based Linux distribution (such as Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install libjson0 libjson0-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Once those dependencies are in place, stack-watch can be built from source:

make
./stack-watch

Command line options

-a, --all         Display all matching questions, not just updates            
-p, --pagesize    Maximum number of questions to monitor at a time            
-r, --rate        Rate at which to check for new activity, in minutes.        
                  This cannot be set less than 1 minute.                      
-s, --site        Site to monitor                                              
-t, --tagged      Tag(s) to monitor                                           
-v, --version     Display version information                                 
    --help        Display usage information                                   

Examples

Display updates under the asoiaf tag on the scifi site:

stack-watch -s scifi -t asoiaf

Display most recent http questions on the default site:

stack-watch -a -t http