Website Change Detector

• Detects website changes (full/part of) using image / html / text comparisons and emails the user a file with the changes highlighted.

• User can set a threshold value (default = 1.0).

• For tracking a part of webpage use XPath of the element.

Demo

Home page

Form page

Console page

Profile page

Email SS

Image Mode

Text Mode

HTML Mode

Adding env variables

• Add env variables to ".env.test" and rename it to ".env"

Installation

$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/Scripts/activate
(venv) pip install -r requirements.txt
(venv) cd website-change-detector
(venv) python manage.py makemigrations
(venv) python manage.py migrate
(venv) python manage.py createsuperuser
(venv) python manage.py runserver

Celery run command

Run both commands on separate terminals

celery -A website_change_detector.celery worker --pool=solo -l info
celery -A website_change_detector beat -l info

If you want to run in background

celery -A website_change_detector.celery worker --pool=solo -l info --logfile=celery.log --detach
celery -A website_change_detector beat -l info --logfile=celery.beat.log --detach 

Test Coverage

coverage run manage.py test && coverage report && coverage html

Running Tests

To run tests, run the following command

python manage.py test

Deploy to Heroku

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python

https://realpython.com/django-hosting-on-heroku/