[Package Request] urlwatch

[ngondard]

Software Name

urlwatch

Brief Description

urlwatch is intended to help you watch changes in webpages and get notified (via e-mail, in your terminal or through various third party services) of any changes. The change notification will include the URL that has changed and a unified diff of what has changed.

• Documentation: https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io/
• Website: https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/
• E-Mail: [email protected]

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Website

https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/

Documentation

https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io/

Build/Installation documentation

https://github.com/thp/urlwatch/archive/2.28.tar.gz

Source code

https://github.com/thp/urlwatch

OpenSource License

other (please specify below)

Other License

https://github.com/thp/urlwatch/blob/master/COPYING

[ngondard]

I just installed urlwatch on my synology (DSM 6, arm based). It's written in python, so I set up a virtual environment (venv) as well (in which I downgraded urllib3<2.0). Then I figured it would be nice to have the installation packaged, for housekeeping.

Configuration uses files (generated by the first run ?), so users may be expected to ssh their way in. I got an idea from Icecast package request: use config file editor. Problem is, it's not compatible with DSM 7. So back to square one.

Schedule jobs work. Just remember to use the venv python path. So it reads:

/the/venv/path/bin/python3 /the/venv/path/bin/urlwatch

[hgy59]

@ngondard hi, can you provide some information on how to integrate urlwatch into DSM?

• should urlwatch be available on the shell only or should it be run as (backgroud) service?
• should it be installed as command line tool with some sample code to be used in scheduled jobs?
• have you an example of such a job file?
• what is the issue with DSM 7 compatibility?