sitewatcheR

sitewatcheR is a Rust remake of an old Go project. This program monitors the HTML content of a specified website and notifies you whenever changes are detected. It can also log these changes to a file.

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⚡ Features

• Continuously monitors a given URL.
• Prints a message to the console when HTML content changes.
• Optionally logs changes to log.txt.
• Optionally prints "No change found" messages even when the content hasn't changed.

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🛠 Requirements

• Rust (stable)
• reqwest crate
• chrono crate

Cargo.toml example:

[dependencies]
reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking"] }
chrono = "0.4"

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🚀 Installation & Running

1. Clone the repository or download the files:

git clone https://github.com/<your_username>/sitewatcheR.git
cd sitewatcheR

2. Build the project:

cargo build --release

3. Run the program:

cargo run

4. The program will prompt you for the following information:

Enter URL to watch : [Website URL to monitor]
Enter time to wait between requests (seconds) : [Interval in seconds]
Do you want to get notified when cannot find? (y for yes, anything for no) :
Do you want log? (y for yes, anything for no) :

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💾 Log File

• The log.txt file is used to store change logs.
• If logging is enabled, any detected changes are written to the file automatically.
• If the file does not exist, it will be created; if it exists, new entries are appended.

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⚙️ Example Usage

Enter URL to watch : https://example.com
Enter time to wait between requests (seconds) : 5
Do you want to get notified when cannot find? (y for yes, anything for no) : y
Do you want log? (y for yes, anything for no) : y

The program will check the site every 5 seconds and log changes both to the console and the log file.

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📌 Notes

• reqwest works with HTTP/HTTPS URLs. file:// URLs are not supported.
• Ensure log.txt is added to .gitignore if you don't want it in the repository.

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