1URLWATCH(1) User Commands URLWATCH(1)
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6 urlwatch - monitors webpages for you
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9 urlwatch [options]
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12 urlwatch is intended to help you watch changes in webpages and get
13 notified (via e-mail, in your terminal or through various third party
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15 that has changed and a unified diff of what has changed.
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17 optional arguments:
18 -h, --help
19 show this help message and exit
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21 --version
22 show program's version number and exit
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24 -v, --verbose
25 show debug output
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27 files and directories:
28 --urls FILE
29 read job list (URLs) from FILE
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31 --config FILE
32 read configuration from FILE
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34 --hooks FILE
35 use FILE as hooks.py module
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37 --cache FILE
38 use FILE as cache database
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40 Authentication:
41 --smtp-login
42 Enter password for SMTP (store in keyring)
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44 --telegram-chats
45 List telegram chats the bot is joined to
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47 --test-slack
48 Send a test notification to Slack
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50 job list management:
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53 --add JOB
54 add job (key1=value1,key2=value2,...)
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56 --delete JOB
57 delete job by location or index
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59 --test-filter JOB
60 test filter output of job by location or index
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62 interactive commands ($EDITOR/$VISUAL):
63 --edit edit URL/job list
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65 --edit-config
66 edit configuration file
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69 edit hooks script
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71 miscellaneous:
72 --features
73 list supported jobs/filters/reporters
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75 --gc-cache
76 remove old cache entries
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79 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/urlwatch/urls.yaml
80 A list of URLs, commands and other jobs to watch
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82 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/urlwatch/hooks.py
83 A Python module that can implement new job types, filters and
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86 $XDG_CACHE_HOME/urlwatch/cache.db
87 A SQLite 3 database that contains the state history of jobs (for
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91 Thomas Perl <thp.io/about>
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94 https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/
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98urlwatch 2.16 January 2019 URLWATCH(1)