Create main.py

scripts/track_webpage_changes/main.py

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+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import difflib
+import time
+from datetime import datetime
+
+url = str(input("url: "))
+interval = int(input("interval(s): "))
+headers = {
+    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}
+
+PrevVersion = ""
+FirstRun = True
+while True:    
+    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "lxml")
+    for script in soup(["script", "style"]):
+        script.extract()
+    soup = soup.get_text()
+    
+    if PrevVersion != soup:
+        if FirstRun == True:
+            PrevVersion = soup
+            FirstRun = False
+            print("Started Monitoring " + url + " " + str(datetime.now()))
+        else:
+            print("Changes detected at: " + str(datetime.now()))
+            OldPage = PrevVersion.splitlines()
+            NewPage = soup.splitlines()
+            d = difflib.Differ()
+            diff = d.compare(OldPage, NewPage)
+            out_text = "\n".join([ll.rstrip() for ll in '\n'.join(diff).splitlines() if ll.strip()])
+            #print(out_text)
+            OldPage = NewPage
+            # print ('\n'.join(diff))
+            PrevVersion = soup
+    else:
+        print("No Changes Detected " + str(datetime.now()))
+    time.sleep(interval)
+    continue