website_monitor

A simple gtk ui for monitoring websites, released on the BSD 2-clause licence, see LICENCE for more information.

Be warned, this is a work in progress, things will be broken!

#screenshots:

Setup:

Make sure the pygtk module is installed, and a gtk libs of version 2.0 or higher.

First we need to execute some commands, so open a comandline and enter:

$ git clone git@github.com:ameesters/website_monitor.git
$ cd website_monitor/
$ chmod +x init_db.py main.py
$ sqlite3 site_monitor.db
$ ./init_db.py
$ ./main.py

if not, please use the issue tracker! PS) For people who get stuck in the sqlite shell try .exit ;-)

Todo:

Currently these issues are blocking a beta release(list will be updated frequently):

• Add website.
  • Proper validation on adding a website.
  • https support
• Edit website.
• Delete website.
• Open website in browser.
• Set timeout from GUI.
• Setting update interval from GUI.
• Mute website option.
• Refactor the code using DRY/DIE principle.
• Move to a more MVC like structure.
• Add a proper menu
• Tracking history like:
  • uptime
  • ping
  • number of requests per visit
  • date last modified
  • Size of the webpage
  • External links
• Export/Backup options:
  • HTML
  • PDF
  • CSV