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#Webpage Monitor

Monitors the webpage the given url points to.

Has a lot of things up its sleeve to tell alert you when the webpage changes. It will notify you, play a sound endlessly, open the browser to that page or even send you an email.

Does not work:

• With cookies
• With logins
• Time displays on webpages
• on Windows

Working on that (except the Windows part).

##Installation guide It's nothing. Just download the zip or clone the repo and then run

./wpmon http://www.example.com

For default help from argparser,

./wpmon -h

You'll have to set up a Mailgun or some other email provider and enter the API keys and stuff in the wpmon.conf. Don't forget to rename wpmon.sample.conf as wpmon.conf.

To start wpmon at system startup, copy the service file into /etc/systemd/system/ and change the path of wpmon inside it to point to your wpmon directory.

Now, in wpmon.conf, add a section with a small name (no spaces please), like [FOO] and add options underneath. All options that are given in the help section are valid (without the leading dashes of course-- for example, --url as a command line argument can be written as url = https://example.com in the config file. Omitted options (except url are okay, but make sure you have a [DEFAULT] section too, so that you can change the built-in defaults to your own.

Now that you have defined your section in wpmon.conf, try running it with

./wpmon -c FOO

or

./wpmon --section FOO

and check wether it works.

Once you have tuned the options to your liking, just run the following (with sudo)

systemctl enable wpmonitord@FOO

replacing FOO with the name of your section. Now, systemd will start this process at startup. Replacing enable with status, start, disable and stop will do what they say. Dont hesitate to explore. Thats it, maybe I should make a MakeFile or something. But this is not that hard.

Oh, and all the sounds are under Creative Commons license, downloaded from commons.wikimedia.org. Hope it is helpful.

Abilops.