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thp / urlwatch

Watch (parts of) webpages and get notified when something changes via e-mail, on your phone or via other means. Highly configurable.
https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/
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This is an awesome project #639

Closed proxseas closed 2 years ago

proxseas commented 3 years ago

I really have to give praises to this project. I was looking into a solution for monitoring webpage changes and the most common self-hosted recommendation was Huginn. While it's a very capable system, it is quite a beast and takes some time to set up. Meanwhile, urlwatch is quite modular and very lightweight (no Ruby behemoth and it uses SQL Lite). I set it up to use PushOver as the reporter, crontab as the scheduler, and pyhtml2text for much of the parsing. But I have tons of other choices if I want that. This is really an awesome utility and I wish it was better known.

kongomongo commented 3 years ago

full ack!

boison-ranga commented 3 years ago

Thank you to this project and contributors from me as well.

Don't want to sound too prophetically, but: this is the future of login-less, privacy-friendly notifications and subscriptions.

thp commented 2 years ago

Thanks :)