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On 2008-11-17 at 11:57:44, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > websec provides very similar functionality. Is urlwatch better than > websec? Good question. Here's what the author of urlwatch has to say about it: --- urlwatch has an easier configuration (urls.txt is just a text file with one URL per line), websec has a more sophisticated (read: complicated) way of setting up things. urlwatch can look for non-existent pages (i.e. you enter a URL and as soon as it becomes available, e.g. non-404, you get notified). urlwatch is written in Python, so newcomers and advanced users familiar with Python have an easier time customizing the hooks.py file and the program itself. urlwatch always sends you plaintext mail, no HTML (a _good_ thing!) In my opinion, urlwatch has an easier way of getting rid of always-changing content via the hooks.py file. It also allows things like watching ical files for changes without having to understand the ical format (by transforming ical to plaintext, see the examples). For web pages (HTML), urlwatch supports cleaning up bad HTML to have easier-to-read diffs via utidylib. --- Cheers, Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
