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v3.21
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Added

  • Job selectable differs: The differ, i.e. the method by which changes are detected and summarized, can now be
    selected job by job. Also gone is the restriction to have only unified diffs, HTML table diff, or calling an outside
    executable, as differs have become modular.

    • Python programmers can write their own custom differs using the hooks.py file.
    • Backward-compatibility is preserved, so your current jobs will continue to work.

  • New differs:

    • difflib to report element-by-element changes in JSON or XML structured data.
    • imagediff (BETA) to report an image showing changes in an image being tracked.
    • ai_google (BETA) to use a Generative AI provide a summary of changes (free API key required). We use
      Google's Gemini Pro 1.5 since it is the first model that can ingest 1M tokens, allowing to analyze changes in
      long documents (up to 350,000 words, or about 700 pages single-spaced) such as terms and conditions, privacy
      policies, etc. where summarization adds the most value and which other models can't handle. The differ can call
      the Gen AI model to summarize a unified diff or to find and summarize the differences itself. Also supported is
      Gemini 1.0, but it can handle a lower number of tokens.

Changed

  • Filter absolute_links now converts URLs of the action, href and src attributes in any HTML tag, as
    well as the data attribute of the <object> tag; it previously converted only the href attribute of
    <a> tags.
  • Updated explanatory text and error messages for increased clarity.
  • You can now select jobs to run by using its url/command instead of its number, e.g. webchanges https://test.com is
    just as valid as webchanges 1.

Deprecated

  • Job directive diff_tool. Replaced with the command differ (see here <https://webchanges.readthedocs.io/en/stable/differs.html#command_diff>__.

Fixed

  • webchanges --errors will no longer check jobs who have disabled: true (thanks to yubiuser <https://github.com/yubiuser>__ for reporting this in issue # 73 <https://github.com/mborsetti/webchanges/issues/73>__).
  • Markdown links with no text were not clickable when converted to HTML; conversion now adds a 'Link without text'
    label.

Internals

  • Improved speed of creating a unified diff for an HTML report.
  • Reduced excessive logging from httpx's sub-modules hpack and httpcore when running with -vv.
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