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Shell reporter #650
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I tried to do a very hackish thing to get a notification on the desktop, but it doesn't work as expected. I put in my crontab:
The idea was executing the urlwatch, log the exit (for debug purposes only), and if there is anything on the exit, show the notification. |
Recent versions have The An example is documented here: https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced.html#pass-diff-output-to-a-custom-script |
I'd love to see this as well - my use case is to kick off a script to request archive.org save a page whenever it changes. I don't see a clear way of doing this, short of monitoring stdout |
@devicenull You may want to try the fork (optimized for web monitoring) webchanges as it has such reporter: https://webchanges.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reporters.html#run-command |
@mborsetti Please fix the licensing issue of your fork: mborsetti/webchanges#30 |
Removed comment from @notDavid because that's already mentioned elsewhere, and webchanges removed copyright/license headers in its source files (it's an unfriendly fork of urlwatch), so I'd prefer not promoting it here unnecessarily. |
I have an edge case, but could become a feature request: I execute urlwatch locally and I would like to execute a shell command when there is any changes. The goal is to use
notify-send
command to display a notification in my desktop telling me about a change was detected (not necessarily what was the change). I tried to create a job to execute the command, but the message appears every time the urlwatch executes, and not only when there is a change.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: