Website content tracker

The project involves developing a tool or system that monitors the content of a specified website or webpage and alerts the user whenever any changes or updates are detected on that page.

Requirements

python: 3.12

Installation

1. python3.12 -m venv venv
2. venv/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip
3. venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

How to run and debug the script locally

Start a local server: cd tmp && python3 -m http.server 8000

Execute the script: venv/bin/python tracker.py

Deploy and run it using monit on the server

Make script executable: sudo chmod +x tracker.py

Configure monit in monitrc:

## Check custom program status output.
#
  check program stadt-koeln-tracker with path "/home/adil/website_content_tracker/venv/bin/python /home/adil/website_content_tracker/tracker.py"
     if status != 0 then alert
#
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