https://github.com/bianjp/version-watcher

Watch updates of some softwares and notify by email
https://github.com/bianjp/version-watcher

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Watch updates of some softwares and notify by email

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bianjp/version-watcher
• Owner: bianjp
• Created: 2016-05-08T17:38:27.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-15T13:18:54.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-15T14:34:32.132Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 15.6 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Version Watcher

Watch for new versions and notify by email.

Written in Python 3.

## Requirement

* Python 3.7+

* Python packages:

    * [nvchecker](https://github.com/lilydjwg/nvchecker)

    * [aiohttp](https://pypi.org/project/aiohttp/) (required by nvchecker)

    * [requests](https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests)

* [Maligun](https://www.mailgun.com/) account for sending email

* crontab

Setup on CentOS 8:

```bash

# Install Python 3.11

sudo yum install python3.11 python3.11-pip

# Use venv. Optional

python3 -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

pip3 install -U pip

# Install pip dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

```

## Why not use postfix for sending email?

Since some email service providers (such as Gmail) requires SSL to send email to them, and it's quite complicated to setup with postfix.

## Setup

Create `config/settings.ini`, and change `config/nvchecker.ini` as needed.

Run `python3 main.py` to check at once.

Add the following to `crontab` to check regularly:

```

# Minute Hour Day Month Day_of_week Command

    0     *    *    *        *      cd /path/to/version-watcher && ./main.py &>> log/cron.log

# For venv:

#    0     *    *    *        *      cd /path/to/version-watcher && source .venv/bin/activate && ./main.py &>> log/cron.log

```