# thp/urlwatch

Watch (parts of) webpages and get notified when something changes via e-mail, on your phone or via other means. Highly configurable.

Repository: https://github.com/thp/urlwatch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/urlwatch
Homepage: https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: python, webpage, monitor, automation
Last push: 2026-07-10T08:56:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 73/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4599, "days_push": 54, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3128, forks 355 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:44.553699+00:00)

## What it is
urlwatch is a Python CLI tool that monitors webpages for changes and notifies you via e-mail, terminal, or third-party services like Telegram, Slack, and Pushover. It supports YAML configuration, HTML-to-text conversion, CSS/XPath filtering, and includes a unified diff of changes in notifications.

## Use cases
- monitor webpage changes and get notified
- track price or availability changes on a website
- get an email when a webpage is updated
- watch specific parts of a page using CSS selectors
- detect changes in text content of websites
- run periodic checks on URLs and diff the results

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight, scriptable CLI for webpage change monitoring
- you need flexible filtering with CSS selectors or XPath
- you want notifications through email, Telegram, Slack, or Pushover
- you prefer YAML-based configuration and cron-friendly automation

## When to avoid
- you need a hosted service with a web dashboard or GUI
- you need JavaScript-rendered page monitoring out of the box
- you want visual screenshot-based change detection

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, monitoring, alerting, cli, workflow-automation
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: python, cli, windows, cross-platform
- tags: webpage-monitoring, change-detection, diff-notifications, yaml-config, notifications, automation, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- thp/urlwatch (main) score 73

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:44.553699+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:26:20.738834+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thp/urlwatch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:44.553699+00:00, sha bab64fa052f0)
  - homepage: https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:41:12.360719+00:00, sha 9913276a0bf0)
  - site_page: https://thp.io/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:41:12.370511+00:00, sha 536c01ba0d76)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/urlwatch/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:41:12.372721+00:00, sha c57a708fc762)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.