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

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

python3 -m pip install pyyaml minidb requests keyring platformdirs 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