Dependencies

Mandatory requirements are required to run urlwatch. Depending on what optional features you want to use, you might also need to install additional packages – however, those are not needed to run urlwatch.

Mandatory Packages

• Python 3.8 or newer

• PyYAML

• minidb

• requests

• keyring

• platformdirs

• lxml

• cssselect

The dependencies can be installed with (add --user to install to $HOME):

python3 -m pip install pyyaml minidb requests keyring appdirs lxml cssselect

Optional Packages

Optional packages can be installed using:

python3 -m pip install <packagename>

Where <packagename> is one of the following:

Feature	Python package(s) to install
Pushover reporter	chump
Pushbullet reporter	pushbullet.py
Matrix reporter	matrix_client and markdown2
stdout reporter with color on Windows	colorama
browser job kind	playwright (since version 2.28)
Unit testing	pycodestyle, docutils,
Documentation build	Sphinx
beautify filter	beautifulsoup4; optional dependencies (for <script> and <style> tags): jsbeautifier and cssbeautifier
html2text filter with method: bs4	beautifulsoup4
pdf2text filter	pdftotext and its OS-specific dependencies (see the above link)
ocr filter	pytesseract and Pillow and Tesseract OCR)
XMPP reporter	aioxmpp
jq filter	jq