Automating your favourite browser to load and screenshot each version
and then using http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compare/ should work.
Note that this will also catch the scenario where someone has changed
the page by changing an image on the page.
cheers
stuart
On 24/04/13 10:18, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote:
That helps a lot, because it's for websites which is what I want to compare.
I am looking for changes in a site, and I have some archives, but tools for
merging code are too labor intensive and don't give a good visual report
that I can show to a supervisor. This is good moving forward, but doesn't
cover historical pages.
I was hoping for something where I could call up two pages and get a visual
display of differences for the display version of html, not the code.
-Wilhelmina
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. <
[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, I'm not sure if you're really looking for a diff tool, so I'll just
shout an answer to a question that I think you might be asking. I use a
variation of the script posted here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1494488/watch-a-web-page-for-changes
for watching a web page for changes. I mostly only ever use this for
watching for new artifacts to appear in Maven Central (because refreshing
a web page is pretty dull "work").
Hope this helps.
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HARDY POTTINGER <[email protected]>
University of Missouri Library Systems
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--Frank Zappa
On 4/23/13 3:24 PM, "Wilhelmina Randtke" <[email protected]> wrote:
I would like to compare versions of a website scraped at different times
to
see what paragraphs on a page have changed. Does anyone here know of a
tool for holding two files side by side and noting what is the same and
what is different between the files?
It seems like any simple script to note differences in two strings of text
would work, but I don't know a tool to use.
-Wilhelmina Randtke
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
