Watchtower

Watchtower monitors changes on webpages

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Table of Contents

• About
  • Goals
  • Contribution
• Quick Start
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
    • From source
• Usage
  • Features
• Security
• License
• Miscellaneous
  • Additional Documentation
  • Resources and External Links
  • References

About

Sometimes, certain RPA bot operations can break due to inactive websites, changed HTML, or altered page aesthetics (especially those using OCR). This script aims to monitor these changes to enhance proactivity in response to the described issues.

Check the glossary section of the repository.

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Goals

The goal is to monitor the status, layout, and HTML of a list of websites to be proactive in case of breaking changes in RPA bots.

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Contribution

If you want to contribute to the code, please read the CONTRIBUTING section.

• Check if an issue is already open with the issue tracker or submit a new issue.

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Quick Start

Prerequisites

To check that the prerequisites are met, review this check-list:

• Chrome WebDriver (120.0.6099.200 or upper)
• Python 3.9 or upper

You can find the list of each module needed by the software within the requirements file.

Installation

Install the latest version of the project from source

1. Fork this repository;
2. Run the following commands:

   python setup.py check
   python setup.py build
   python setup.py install

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Usage

Features

• Website Status Recognition

  Watchtower monitors each each website status code and status message.

• Graphical Change Recognition

  Watchtower monitors each each website appereance by a crop resistant checksum of a website snap.

• HTML Structure Recognition

  Watchtower monitors each each website HTML code, besides hred and values.

• Outlook Emails

  Watchtower sends an Outlook email with a table of the anomalies according to an e-mail template.

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Security

Please see our Security Policy for reporting vulnerabilities.

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License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. See LICENSE for more information.

GNU General Public License version 3.0
Watchtower, Copyright © 2024 Fabio Craig Wimmer Florey
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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