UrlWatchVisualDiff

A urlwatch filter to create .html files with visual diffs that can be opened in a browser.

To use this, perform the following:

• Copy hooks.py to the directory where the urls.yaml file is stored (should be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/urlwatch/)

• Add - browserdiff as the first filter to a job of your choice in urls.yaml:

  name: watchdog
  kind: url
  url: https://time.is/Unix_time
  filter:
  - browserdiff
  - element-by-id: smalltime
  - html2text
  - re.sub:
          pattern: '(.*)'
          repl: '\1\n'

• Run urlwatch once to create a baseline

• After capturing at least 1 change in the job relative to the baseline, an .html file with visual diffs will be save in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/urlwatch/BrowserDiff/JobName

• In urlwatch's standard output, the first line includes a clickable open link to open the visual diff:

  

• The visual diff highlights changes: