NoirWatch Shell Homebrew

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NoirWatch monitors websites for changes and sends a notification when one changes. Notifications can go to your desktop (macOS, Linux and Windows) or to your phone through Pushover.

Features

• Monitor multiple websites for changes
• Pushover and native desktop notifications
• Configurable check intervals
• Verbose logging with different log levels
• Background execution
• Customizable configuration and URL list files

Install

On macOS with Homebrew:

brew tap binarynoir/noirwatch
brew install noirwatch

On Linux, macOS or Windows (Git Bash), clone and run it directly. It needs Bash 4 or newer plus curl, sed, shasum and xmllint:

git clone https://github.com/binarynoir/noirwatch.git
cd noirwatch
chmod +x noirwatch

First run

# Watch one page
./noirwatch https://example.com

# Watch every URL listed in a file
./noirwatch -f urls

# Run in the background
./noirwatch -b https://example.com

Create a default configuration file with noirwatch --init. The full option list, service setup for systemd, launchd and Windows, and Docker instructions are in the README.

Status

• Done Monitor multiple websites
• Done Pushover notifications
• Done Desktop notifications on macOS, Linux and Windows
• Done Run as a background service
• Done Run a custom script when a change is detected
• Planned Change averages for all URLs
• Planned More notification methods: email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram

NoirWatch on GitHub · Homebrew tap