prabhasgupte/webmon repository overview

⁠Webmon

⁠License

Webmon - program to monitor web pages for change and detect the change Copyright (C) 2013 Prabhas Gupte

This file is part of Webmon.

Webmon is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Webmon is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Webmon. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt⁠

⁠About Webmon

Webmon is a PHP script to monitor web pages. It have following objectives:

1. Detect whether listed webpage have any change in contents.
2. If change is detected, calculate the difference, and output what have changed.
3. Detect both - positive and negative changes.

⁠Supported Tags

webmon:latest

⁠Running the container

You can use following command to run the container:

docker run -v /path/to/your/seeds.txt:/app/store/seeds.txt -v /path/to/your/data.json:/app/store/data.json webmon:latest

Where, /path/to/your/seeds.txt is the input file, containing an URL per line. /path/to/your/data.json is the output file, containing the data produced by webmon.

⁠Creating seeds file

This file is the input to webmon, containing an URL per line. These are the URLs you wish to monitor for contents change. For example:

http://example.com
http://example.net

If you want to temporarily skip any URL, you can put a hash (#) at the beginning of the line. For example:

http://example.com
# http://example.net