1 .TH URLWATCH "1" "November 2008" "urlwatch 1.5" "User Commands"
3 urlwatch \- Watch web pages and arbitrary URLs for changes
8 urlwatch watches a list of URLs for changes and prints out unified
9 diffs of the changes. You can filter always-changing parts of websites
10 by providing a "hooks.py" script.
14 show program's version number and exit
16 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
17 show the help message and exit
19 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
22 \fB\-\-urls\fR=\fIFILE\fR
23 Read URLs from the specified file
25 \fB\-\-hooks\fR=\fIFILE\fR
26 Use specified file as hooks.py module
28 \fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-display\-errors\fR
29 Include HTTP errors (404, etc..) in the output
32 .B ~/.urlwatch/urls.txt
33 A list of HTTP/FTP URLs to watch (one URL per line)
35 .B ~/.urlwatch/lib/hooks.py
36 A Python module that can be used to filter contents
39 The state of web pages is saved in this folder
41 Thomas Perl <thp@thpinfo.com>
43 http://thpinfo.com/2008/urlwatch/