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+    Python script to keep track of website changes (or parts of websites); sends email notifications on updates
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+# MailWebsiteChanges
+
+Python script to keep track of website changes; sends email notifications on updates and/or also provides an RSS feed
+
+To specify which parts of a website should be monitored, <b>XPath selectors</b> (e.g. "//h1"), <b>CSS selectors</b> (e.g. "h1"), <b>and regular expressions can be used</b> (just choose the tools you like!).
+
+MailWebsiteChanges is related to <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pagemon-chrome-ext/">PageMonitor</a> for Chrome and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/alertbox/">AlertBox</a> / <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/check4change/">Check4Change</a> for Firefox. However, instead of living in your web browser, you can run it independently from command line / bash and install it as a simple cron job running on your linux server.
+
+
+<i>This is Open Source -- so please contribute eagerly! ;-)</i>
+
+
+## Configuration
+Configuration can be done by creating a <code>config.py</code> file (just place this file in the program folder):
+Some examples:
+
+### Website definitions
+<pre>
+<code>
+sites = [
+
+          {'shortname': 'mywebsite1',
+           'uri': 'http://www.mywebsite1.com/info',
+           'contentcss': 'div'},
+
+          {'shortname': 'mywebsite2',
+           'uri': 'http://www.mywebsite2.com/info',
+           'contentxpath': '//*[contains(concat(\' \', normalize-space(@class), \' \'), \' news-list-container \')]',
+           'titlexpath': '//title'},
+
+          {'shortname': 'mywebsite3',
+           'uri': 'http://www.mywebsite3.com/info',
+           'type': 'text',
+           'contentregex': 'Version\"\:\d*\.\d*'}
+
+]
+</code>
+</pre>
+
+ * parameters:
+
+   * <b>shortname</b>  
+     short name of the entry, used as an identifier when sending email notifications
+   * <b>uri</b>  
+     URI of the website; If the scheme of the uri is 'cmd://', the string is interpreted as a command and the standard output (stdout) is parsed.
+   * <b>type</b> (optional; default: 'html')  
+     content type, e.g., 'xml'/'html'/'text'.
+   * <b>contentxpath</b> / <b>titlexpath</b> (optional)  
+     XPath expression for the content/title sections to extract. If you prefer, you could use contentcss/titlecss instead.
+   * <b>contentcss</b> / <b>titlecss</b> (optional)  
+     CSS expression for the content/title sections to extract. This is ignored if there is a corresponding XPath definition.
+   * <b>contentregex</b> / <b>titleregex</b> (optional)  
+     Regular expression. If XPath/CSS selector is defined, the regular expression is applied afterwards.
+   * <b>encoding</b> (optional; default: 'utf-8')  
+     Character encoding of the website, e.g., 'utf-8' or 'iso-8859-1'.
+   * <b>receiver</b> (optional)
+     Overwrites global receiver specification.
+
+
+ * We collect some XPath/CSS snippets at this place: <a href="https://github.com/Debianguru/MailWebsiteChanges/wiki/snippets">Snippet collection</a> - please feel free to add your own definitions!
+
+ * The <b>--dry-run="shortname"</b> option might be useful in order to validate and fine-tune a definition.
+
+ * If you would like to keep the data stored in a different place than the working directory, you can include something like this:
+  <pre>
+   <code>
+  os.chdir('/path/to/data/directory')
+   </code>
+  </pre>
+
+### Mail settings
+<pre>
+<code>
+enableMailNotifications = True   #enable/disable notification messages; if set to False, only send error messages
+subjectPostfix = 'A website has been updated!'
+
+sender = 'me@mymail.com'
+smtphost = 'mysmtpprovider.com'
+useTLS = True
+smtpport = 587
+smtpusername = sender
+smtppwd = 'mypassword'
+receiver = 'me2@mymail.com'   # set to '' to also disable notifications in case of errors (not recommended)
+</code>
+</pre>
+
+
+### RSS Feeds
+If you prefer to use the RSS feature, you just have to specify the path of the feed file which should be generated by the script (e.g., rssfile = 'feed.xml') and then point your webserver to that file. You can also invoke the mwcfeedserver.py script which implements a very basic webserver.
+
+<pre>
+ <code>
+enableRSSFeed = True   #enable/disable RSS feed
+
+rssfile = 'feed.xml'
+maxFeeds = 100
+ </code>
+</pre>
+
+
+### Program execution
+To setup a job that periodically runs the script, simply attach something like this to your /etc/crontab:
+<pre>
+ <code>
+0 8-22/2    * * *   root	/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/mwc
+ </code>
+</pre>
+This will run the script every two hours between 8am and 10pm.
+
+If you prefer invoking the script with an alternate configuration files, simply pass the name of the configuration file as an argument, e.g., for <code>my_alternate_config.py</code>, use <code>mwc --config=my_alternate_config</code>.
+
+
+## Requirements
+Requires Python 3, <a href="http://lxml.de/">lxml</a>, and <a href="http://pythonhosted.org/cssselect/">cssselect</a>.
+For <b>Ubuntu 12.04</b>, type:
+
+  * sudo apt-get install python3 python3-dev python3-setuptools libxml2 libxslt1.1 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-libxml2 python-libxslt1
+  * sudo easy\_install3 pip
+  * sudo pip-3.2 install lxml cssselect
+
+For <b>Ubuntu 14.04</b>, type:
+
+  * sudo apt-get install python3-lxml python3-pip
+  * sudo pip3 install cssselect
+
diff --git a/config_template.py b/config_template.py
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+import os.path
+
+# Copyright: (2013-2014) Michael Till Beck <Debianguru@gmx.de>
+# License: GPL-2.0+
+
+#We collect xpath snippets at this place: <a href="https://github.com/Debianguru/MailWebsiteChanges/wiki/snippets">Snippet collection</a> - please feel free to add your own definitions!
+
+sites = [
+
+          {'shortname': 'mywebsite1',
+           'uri': 'http://www.mywebsite1.com/info',
+           'type': 'html',
+           'titlexpath': '//h1',
+           'contentxpath': '//div',
+           'titleregex': '',
+           'contentregex': '',
+           'encoding': 'utf-8'},
+
+          {'shortname': 'mywebsite2',
+           'uri': 'http://www.mywebsite2.com/info',
+           'type': 'html',
+           'contentxpath': '//*[contains(concat(\' \', normalize-space(@class), \' \'), \' news-list-container \')]',
+           'regex': '',
+           'encoding': 'utf-8'},
+
+          {'shortname': 'mywebsite3',
+           'uri': 'http://www.mywebsite3.com/info',
+           'type': 'text',
+           'contentxpath': '',
+           'contentregex': 'Version\"\:\d*\.\d*',
+           'encoding': 'utf-8'},
+
+          {'shortname': 'lscmd',
+           'uri': 'cmd://ls -l /home/pi',
+           'contentregex': '.*Desktop.*'
+          }
+
+]
+
+subjectPostfix = 'A website has been updated!'
+
+enableMailNotifications = True
+sender = 'me@mymail.com'
+smtphost = 'mysmtpprovider.com'
+useTLS = True
+smtpport = 587
+smtpusername = sender
+smtppwd = 'mypassword'
+receiver = 'me2@mymail.com'
+
+os.chdir('/var/cache/mwc')
+
+enableRSSFeed = True
+rssfile = 'feed.xml'
+maxFeeds = 100
+
diff --git a/mwc.py b/mwc.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+# Copyright: (2013-2014) Michael Till Beck <Debianguru@gmx.de>
+# License: GPL-2.0+
+
+import urllib.request, urllib.error, urllib.parse
+import urllib.parse
+from lxml import etree
+from cssselect import GenericTranslator
+import re
+import io
+
+import smtplib
+from email.mime.text import MIMEText
+from email.header import Header
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
+
+import os
+import sys
+import getopt
+import traceback
+
+import subprocess
+
+import time
+from time import strftime
+import random
+
+import importlib
+config = None
+
+defaultEncoding = 'utf-8'
+maxTitleLength = 150
+
+# this is how an empty feed looks like
+emptyfeed = """<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<rss version="2.0">
+ <channel>
+  <title>MailWebsiteChanges Feed</title>
+  <link>https://github.com/Debianguru/MailWebsiteChanges</link>
+  <description>MailWebsiteChanges Feed</description>
+ </channel>
+</rss>"""
+
+# Attributes in HTML files storing URI values. These values are automatically translated to absolute URIs.
+uriAttributes = [['//img[@src]', 'src'], ['//a[@href]', 'href']]
+cmdscheme = 'cmd://'
+
+mailsession = None
+
+
+# translates all relative URIs found in trees to absolute URIs
+def toAbsoluteURIs(trees, baseuri):
+        for tree in trees:
+                for uriAttribute in uriAttributes:
+                        tags = tree.xpath(uriAttribute[0])
+                        for tag in tags:
+                                if tag.attrib.get(uriAttribute[1]) != None:
+                                        if urllib.parse.urlparse(tag.attrib[uriAttribute[1]]).scheme == '':
+                                                tag.attrib[uriAttribute[1]] = urllib.parse.urljoin(baseuri, tag.attrib[uriAttribute[1]])
+
+
+def parseSite(site):
+        file, content, titles, warning = None, None, None, None
+
+        uri = site['uri']
+        contenttype = site.get('type', 'html')
+        contentregex = site.get('contentregex', '')
+        titleregex = site.get('titleregex', '')
+        enc = site.get('encoding', defaultEncoding)
+
+        contentxpath = site.get('contentxpath', '')
+        if contentxpath == '' and site.get('contentcss', '') != '':
+                # CSS
+                contentxpath = GenericTranslator().css_to_xpath(site.get('contentcss'))
+        titlexpath = site.get('titlexpath', '')
+        if titlexpath == '' and site.get('titlecss', '') != '':
+                titlexpath = GenericTranslator().css_to_xpath(site.get('titlecss'))
+
+        try:
+
+                if uri.startswith(cmdscheme):
+                        # run command and retrieve output
+                        process = subprocess.Popen(uri[len(cmdscheme):], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True, close_fds=True)
+                        file = process.stdout
+                else:
+                        # open website
+                        file = urllib.request.urlopen(uri)
+
+
+                if contenttype == 'text' or (contentxpath == '' and titlexpath == ''):
+                        contents = [file.read().decode(enc)]
+                        titles = []
+                else:
+                        baseuri = uri
+                        if contenttype == 'html':
+                                parser = etree.HTMLParser(encoding=enc)
+                        else:
+                                parser = etree.XMLParser(recover=True, encoding=enc)
+
+                        tree = etree.parse(file, parser)
+
+                        # xpath
+                        contentresult = tree.xpath(contentxpath) if contentxpath else []
+                        titleresult = tree.xpath(titlexpath) if titlexpath else []
+
+                        # translate relative URIs to absolute URIs
+                        if contenttype == 'html':
+                                basetaglist = tree.xpath('/html/head/base')
+                                if len(basetaglist) != 0:
+                                        baseuri = basetaglist[0].attrib['href']
+                                if len(contentresult) != 0:
+                                        toAbsoluteURIs(contentresult, baseuri)
+                                if len(titleresult) != 0:
+                                        toAbsoluteURIs(titleresult, baseuri)
+
+                        if contentxpath != '' and titlexpath != '' and len(contentresult) != len(titleresult):
+                                warning = 'WARNING: number of title blocks (' + str(len(titleresult)) + ') does not match number of content blocks (' + str(len(contentresult)) + ')'
+                        elif contentxpath and len(contentresult) == 0:
+                                warning = 'WARNING: content selector became invalid!'
+                        elif titlexpath and len(titleresult) == 0:
+                                warning = 'WARNING: title selector became invalid!'
+                        else:
+                                if len(contentresult) == 0:
+                                        contentresult = titleresult
+                                if len(titleresult) == 0:
+                                        titleresult = contentresult
+
+                        contents = [etree.tostring(s, encoding=defaultEncoding, pretty_print=True).decode(defaultEncoding) for s in contentresult]
+                        titles = [getSubject(' '.join(s.xpath('.//text()'))) for s in titleresult]
+
+        except IOError as e:
+                warning = 'WARNING: could not open URL; maybe content was moved?\n\n' + str(e)
+
+        if file is not None:
+                file.close()
+
+        if uri.startswith(cmdscheme) and process.wait() != 0:
+                warning = 'WARNING: process terminated with an error'
+
+        if warning:
+                return {'content': content, 'titles': titles, 'warning': warning}
+
+        # parse regex
+        if contentregex:
+                contents = [x for y in [re.findall(r'' + contentregex, c, re.S) for c in contents] for x in y]
+        if titleregex:
+                titles = [x for y in [re.findall(r'' + titleregex, c, re.S) for c in titles] for x in y]
+
+        if contentregex and titleregex and len(contents) != len(titles):
+                warning = 'WARNING: number of title blocks (' + str(len(titles)) + ') does not match number of content blocks (' + str(len(contents)) + ') after regex'
+        elif contentregex and len(contents) == 0:
+                warning = 'WARNING: content regex became invalid!'
+        elif titleregex and len(titles) == 0:
+                warning = 'WARNING: title regex became invalid!'
+        else:
+                if len(contents) == 0:
+                        contents = titles
+                if len(titles) == 0:
+                        titles = [getSubject(c) for c in contents]
+
+        return {'contents': contents, 'titles': titles, 'warning': warning}
+
+
+# returns a short subject line
+def getSubject(textContent):
+        if textContent == None or textContent == '':
+                return config.subjectPostfix
+        textContent = re.sub(' +', ' ', re.sub('\s', ' ', textContent)).strip()
+        return (textContent[:maxTitleLength] + ' [..]') if len(textContent) > maxTitleLength else textContent
+
+
+# generates a new RSS feed item
+def genFeedItem(subject, content, link, change):
+        feeditem = etree.Element('item')
+        titleitem = etree.Element('title')
+        titleitem.text = subject + ' #' + str(change)
+        feeditem.append(titleitem)
+        linkitem = etree.Element('link')
+        linkitem.text = link
+        feeditem.append(linkitem)
+        descriptionitem = etree.Element('description')
+        descriptionitem.text = content
+        feeditem.append(descriptionitem)
+        guiditem = etree.Element('guid')
+        guiditem.text = str(random.getrandbits(32))
+        feeditem.append(guiditem)
+        dateitem = etree.Element('pubDate')
+        dateitem.text = strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z", time.localtime())
+        feeditem.append(dateitem)
+
+        return feeditem
+
+
+# sends mail notification
+def sendmail(receiver, subject, content, sendAsHtml, link):
+        global mailsession
+
+        if sendAsHtml:
+                baseurl = None
+                if link != None:
+                        content = '<p><a href="' + link + '">' + subject + '</a></p>\n' + content
+                        baseurl = urljoin(link, '/')
+                mail = MIMEText('<html><head><title>' + subject + '</title>' + ('<base href="' + baseurl + '">' if baseurl else '') + '</head><body>' + content + '</body></html>', 'html', defaultEncoding)
+        else:
+                if link != None:
+                        content = link + '\n\n' + content
+                mail = MIMEText(content, 'text', defaultEncoding)
+
+        mail['From'] = config.sender
+        mail['To'] = receiver
+        mail['Subject'] = Header(subject, defaultEncoding)
+
+        # initialize session once, not each time this method gets called
+        if mailsession is None:
+                mailsession = smtplib.SMTP(config.smtphost, config.smtpport)
+                if config.useTLS:
+                        mailsession.ehlo()
+                        mailsession.starttls()
+                mailsession.login(config.smtpusername, config.smtppwd)
+
+        mailsession.sendmail(config.sender, receiver.split(','), mail.as_string())
+
+
+# returns a list of all content that is stored locally for a specific site
+def getFileContents(shortname):
+        result = []
+        for f in os.listdir('.'):
+                if f.startswith(shortname + '.') and f.endswith('.txt'):
+                        file = open(f, 'r')
+                        result.append(file.read())
+                        file.close()
+        return result
+
+
+# updates list of content that is stored locally for a specific site
+def storeFileContents(shortname, parseResult):
+        for f in os.listdir('.'):
+                if f.startswith(shortname + '.') and f.endswith('.txt'):
+                        os.remove(f)
+
+        i = 0
+        for c in parseResult['contents']:
+                file = open(shortname + '.' + str(i) + '.txt', 'w')
+                file.write(c)
+                file.close()
+                i += 1
+
+
+def pollWebsites():
+
+        # parse existing feed or create a new one
+        if config.enableRSSFeed:
+                if os.path.isfile(config.rssfile):
+                        feedXML = etree.parse(config.rssfile)
+                else:
+                        feedXML = etree.parse(io.StringIO(emptyfeed))
+
+        # start polling sites
+        for site in config.sites:
+
+                print('polling site [' + site['shortname'] + '] ...')
+                parseResult = parseSite(site)
+                receiver = site.get('receiver', config.receiver)
+
+                # if something went wrong, notify the user
+                if parseResult['warning']:
+                        subject = '[' + site['shortname'] + '] WARNING'
+                        print('WARNING: ' + parseResult['warning'])
+                        if config.enableMailNotifications:
+                                sendmail(receiver, subject, parseResult['warning'], False, None)
+                        if config.enableRSSFeed:
+                                feedXML.xpath('//channel')[0].append(genFeedItem(subject, parseResult['warning'], site['uri'], 0))
+                else:
+                        # otherwise, check which parts of the site were updated
+                        changes = 0
+                        fileContents = getFileContents(site['shortname'])
+                        i = 0
+                        for content in parseResult['contents']:
+                                if content not in fileContents:
+                                        changes += 1
+
+                                        subject = '[' + site['shortname'] + '] ' + parseResult['titles'][i]
+                                        print('    ' + subject)
+                                        if config.enableMailNotifications and len(fileContents) > 0:
+                                                sendmail(receiver, subject, content, (site.get('type', 'html') == 'html'), site['uri'])
+
+                                        if config.enableRSSFeed:
+                                                feedXML.xpath('//channel')[0].append(genFeedItem(subject, content, site['uri'], changes))
+                                i += 1
+
+
+                        if changes > 0:
+                                storeFileContents(site['shortname'], parseResult)
+                                print('        ' + str(changes) + ' updates')
+ 
+        # store feed
+        if config.enableRSSFeed:
+                for o in feedXML.xpath('//channel/item[position()<last()-' + str(config.maxFeeds - 1) + ']'):
+                        o.getparent().remove(o)
+                file = open(config.rssfile, 'w')
+                file.write(etree.tostring(feedXML, pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True, encoding=defaultEncoding).decode(defaultEncoding))
+                file.close()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+        configMod = 'config'
+        dryrun = None
+
+        try:
+                opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hc:d:', ['help', 'config=', 'dry-run='])
+        except getopt.GetoptError:
+                print('Usage: mwc.py --config=config --dry-run=shortname')
+                sys.exit(1)
+        for opt, arg in opts:
+                if opt == '-h':
+                        print('Usage: mwc.py --config=config')
+                        exit()
+                elif opt in ('-c', '--config'):
+                        configMod = arg
+                elif opt in ('-d', '--dry-run'):
+                        dryrun = arg
+
+        config = importlib.import_module(configMod)
+
+        if dryrun:
+                for site in config.sites:
+                        if site['shortname'] == dryrun:
+                                parseResult = parseSite(site)
+                                print(parseResult)
+                                break
+        else:
+                try:
+                        pollWebsites()
+                except:
+                        msg = str(sys.exc_info()[0]) + '\n\n' + traceback.format_exc()
+                        print(msg)
+                        if config.receiver != '':
+                                sendmail(config.receiver, '[mwc] Something went wrong ...', msg, False, None)
+
+                if mailsession:
+                        mailsession.quit()
+                        mailsession = None
+
diff --git a/mwcfeedserver.py b/mwcfeedserver.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..98093b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mwcfeedserver.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+# Copyright: (2013-2014) Michael Till Beck <Debianguru@gmx.de>
+# License: GPL-2.0+
+
+import http.server
+import socketserver
+import importlib
+import sys
+import getopt
+
+bind = 'localhost'
+port = 8000
+configMod = 'config'
+
+
+try:
+        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hc:b:p:', ['help', 'config=', 'bind=', 'port='])
+except getopt.GetoptError:
+        print('Usage: FeedServer.py --config=config --port=8000')
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+for opt, arg in opts:
+        if opt == '-h':
+                print('Usage: FeedServer.py --config=config --bind=localhost --port=8000')
+                exit()
+        elif opt in ('-c', '--config'):
+                configMod = arg
+        elif opt in ('-b', '--bind'):
+                bind = arg
+        elif opt in ('-p', '--port'):
+                port = int(arg)
+
+config = importlib.import_module(configMod)
+
+
+handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+
+httpd = socketserver.TCPServer((bind, port), handler)
+
+print('Bond to ' + bind + ', listening on port ' + str(port))
+httpd.serve_forever()
+