***BOGO*** Re: Bug#505968: ITP: urlwatch -- email notifications of changes to URLs

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/11/08 at 04:51 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/17/08 03:23, Francois Marier wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Francois Marier <francois@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> * Package name    : urlwatch
>>   Version         : 1.4
>>   Upstream Author : Thomas Perl <thp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> * URL             : http://thpinfo.com/2008/urlwatch/
>> * License         : BSD
>>   Programming Lang: Python
>>   Description     : email notifications of changes to URLs
>>
>>  This script is intended to help you watch URLs and get notified (via e-mail) of any
>>  changes. The change notification will include the URL that has changed and a unified
>>  diff of what's changed. The script works out of a single directory, so no need to
>>  install anything. State files are kept in the same folder. The script supports
>>  stripping always-changing parts of a page through the use of a filter hook function.

websec provides very similar functionality. Is urlwatch better than
websec?
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