This repo provides a small docker image for running webchanges without installing a whole python ecosystem. The image is rather small (~30 MB) and alpine
-based.
The following optional dependencies of webchanges
are included (see Dependencies)
Comment | |
---|---|
minidb |
to allow importing legacy urlwatch databases |
html5lib |
parser for the bs4 method of the html2text filter |
beautifulsoup4 |
beautify filter |
jsbeautifier |
beautify filter |
cssbeautifier |
beautify filter |
jq |
|
chump |
for pushover reporter |
pyopenssl |
|
python-dateutil |
for --rollback-database |
zstandard |
for Zstandard compression |
vobject |
for iCal handling |
- add URLs to
data/jobs.yaml
(take a look at the Jobs section in the webchanges documentation for all details) - setup
data/config.yaml
as required and configure at least one reporter (e.g. SMTP account details) - run webchanges:
docker-compose up -d
# watch log output
docker-compose logs -f
# stop webchanges
docker-compose down
If you don't want to use Docker Compose, you can run the container with Docker:
# run once
docker run --rm --interactive --tty \
--volume "$(pwd)/data":/data/webchanges \
--volume /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
ghcr.io/yubiuser/webchanges
# run in background and restart automatically
docker run --tty --detach --restart unless-stopped \
--name webchanges \
--volume "$(pwd)/data":/data/webchanges \
--volume /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
ghcr.io/yubiuser/webchanges
# watch log output
docker logs --follow webchanges
webchanges runs once every 15 minutes with the provided default settings. It's possible to adjust that interval by editing the provided crontab
file and mount in into the container.
For running every hour instead of the default 15 minutes, change crontab
as following:
0 * * * * cd /data/webchanges && webchanges --urls jobs.yaml --config config.yaml --cache cache.db
Addtionally, each day at 08:00 webchanges --error
runs to check the jobs for errors or empty data.
Tip: use crontabguru to change the cron intervals.
Mount crontab
into the container:
docker-compose run --rm --volume "$(pwd)/crontabfile:/crontabfile:ro" --volume "$(pwd):/data" --volume /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro webchanges
or add the mount to docker-compose.yml
:
networks:
webchanges:
services:
webchanges:
image: ghcr.io/yubiuser/webchanges:latest
container_name: webchanges
volumes:
- ./crontabfile:/crontabfile:ro
- ./data:/data/webchanges
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
restart: "unless-stopped"
networks:
- webchangess
- clone repository:
git clone git@github.com:yubiuser/webchanges-docker.git
- adjust interval in crontab if needed (webchanges is started every 15 minutes with the provided default)
- build the image and run webchanges