How To Install urlwatch on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlwatch in Fedora 36. urlwatch is A tool for monitoring webpages for updates

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlwatch on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install urlwatch.

Install urlwatch on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install urlwatch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install urlwatch

Install urlwatch on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the urlwatch package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove urlwatch

urlwatch Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/urlwatch
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch-2.21-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/browser.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/browser.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/cli.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/cli.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/command.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/command.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/filters.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/filters.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/handler.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/handler.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/html2txt.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/html2txt.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/ical2txt.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/ical2txt.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/jobs.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/jobs.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/mailer.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/mailer.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/main.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/main.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/migration.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/migration.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/reporters.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/reporters.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/storage.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/storage.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/util.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/util.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/worker.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/worker.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/xmpp.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/__pycache__/xmpp.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/browser.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/command.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/filters.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/handler.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/html2txt.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/ical2txt.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/jobs.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/mailer.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/migration.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/reporters.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/storage.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlwatch/worker.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/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

urlwatch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlwatch on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).