How To Install urlwatch on Fedora 34
urlwatch is A tool for monitoring webpages for updates
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install urlwatch on Fedora 34.
What is urlwatch
This script is intended to help you watch URLs and get notified (via email or in your terminal) of any changes. The change notification will include the URL that has changed and a unified diff of what has changed. The script supports the use of a filtering hook function to strip trivially-varying elements of a webpage. Basic features * Simple configuration (text file, one URL per line) * Easily hackable (clean Python implementation) * Can run as a cronjob and mail changes to you * Always outputs only plaintext - no HTML mails * Supports removing noise (always-changing website parts) * Example hooks to filter content in Python
We can use yum or dnf to install urlwatch on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install urlwatch.
Install urlwatch on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install urlwatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install urlwatch
Install urlwatch on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install urlwatch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install urlwatch
How To Uninstall urlwatch on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the urlwatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove urlwatch
urlwatch Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/urlwatch
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/browser.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/browser.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/command.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/command.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/filters.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/filters.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/handler.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/handler.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/html2txt.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/html2txt.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/ical2txt.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/ical2txt.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/jobs.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/jobs.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/mailer.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/mailer.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/main.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/main.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/migration.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/migration.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/reporters.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/reporters.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/storage.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/storage.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/util.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/util.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/worker.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/worker.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/xmpp.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/xmpp.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/browser.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/command.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/filters.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/handler.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/html2txt.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/ical2txt.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/jobs.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/mailer.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/migration.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/reporters.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/storage.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/worker.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urlwatch/xmpp.py
/usr/share/doc/urlwatch
/usr/share/doc/urlwatch/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/urlwatch/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/urlwatch
/usr/share/licenses/urlwatch/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/urlwatch.1.gz
/usr/share/urlwatch/examples
/usr/share/urlwatch/examples/hooks.py.example
/usr/share/urlwatch/examples/urls.yaml.example
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install urlwatch on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
