Websitary software monitors webpages, rss feeds, podcasts etc. and reports what's new. For many tasks, it reuses other programs to do the actual work.
By default, it works on an ASCII basis, i.e. with the output of text-based webbrowsers like w3m (or lynx, links etc.) as the output can easily be post-processed. With the help of some friends (see the section below on requirements), it can also work with HTML. E.g., if you have websec installed, you can also use its webdiff program to show colored diffs. This script was originally planned as a ruby-based websec replacement. For HTML diffs, it stills relies on the webdiff perl script that comes with websec.
By default, this script will use w3m to dump HTML pages and then run diff over the current page and the previous backup. Some pages are better viewed with lynx or links. Downloaded documents (HTML or ASCII)
can be post-processed (e.g., filtered through some ruby block that extracts elements via hpricot and the like). Please see the configuration options below to find out how to change this globally or for a single source.
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Here are some key features of "Websitary":
· Handle webpages, rss feeds (optionally save attachments in podcasts etc.)
· Compare webpages with previous backups
· Display differences between the current version and the backup
· Provide hooks to post-process the downloaded documents and the diff
· Display a one-page report summarizing all news
· Automatically open the report in your favourite web-browser
· Experimental: Download webpages on defined intervalls and generate incremental diffs.
Requirements:
· Ruby
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