GoWatch

A change detection server that can notify through various services, written in Go

Some out-of-the-box highlights:

Create watches by connecting filters in a DAG
A small runtime footprint, a basic instance uses around 20MB of memory
Supports Lua scripting to filter/modify/reduce your data any way you want
Send notifications through Discord, Matrix, Slack, Telegram and many more services
Disable watches on (repeated) failures

Index

Intro
Run
- Binary
- Docker
  - Compose Templates
Config
- Database
  - Pruning
- Proxy
  - Proxy Pools
  - Tor
- Reverse Proxy
- Browserless
- Authentication
Filters
- Schedule
- Get URL
- Get URLs
- CSS
- XPath
- JSON
- Replace
- Match
- Substring
- Contains
- Store
- Expect
- Notify
- Math
  - Sum
  - Minimum
  - Maximum
  - Average
  - Count
  - Round
- Condition
- Browserless
- Lua
Notifiers
- Shoutrrr
- Apprise
- File
Build/Development
- Typescript compilation
Dependencies

Intro

GoWatch works through filters, a filter performs operations on the input it recieves.
Here is an example of a 'Watch' that calculates the lowest and average price of 4090s from NewEgg and MicroCenter and notifies the user if the lowest price changed:

Note that everything, including scheduling/storing/notifying, is a filter.

Schedule is a cron filter with a '@every 15m + 5m' value, this will run every 15-20 minutes.

MicroCenterFetch is a Browserless Get URL filter with a 'https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntk=all&sortby=match&N=4294966937+4294821460+4294805677+4294805676&myStore=true' value, it's output will be the HTTP response.

XPath is an XPath filter, with the value '//span[@itemprop='price']', its output will be the span elements containing the prices.

Match is a Match filter, with the value '[0-9]+', it will, for every result from its parent, return just the numbers.

NewEggFetch is a Get URL filter with a 'https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709&d=4090&isdeptsrh=1&PageSize=96' value, it's output will be the HTTP response.

CSS is a CSS filter with the value '.item-container .item-action strong[class!="item-buying-choices-price"]' value, it's output will be the html elements containing the prices.

Replace is a Replace filter, using a regular expression ('[^0-9]') it removes anything that's not a number.

Avg is an Average filter, it calculates the average value of its inputs.

Min is a Minimum filter, it calculates the minimum value of its inputs.

Average and Minimum are Store filters, they store its input values in the database.

Diff is a Different Than Last filter, only passing on the inputs that are different then the last value stored in the database.

Notify is a Notify filter, if there are any inputs to this filter, it will execute a template and send the result to a user defined 'notifier' (Telegram/Discord/etc).

Expect is an Expect filter, it only outputs if it gets no inputs.
Disable is a Disable Schedules filter, it disables all schedules of a watch when it gets any inputs.
DisableNotify is another Notify filter.
These 3 filters disable the watch when there are no prices to be found, something is probably going wrong, so we don't want to keep spamming these websites.

Run

Binary

Download the binary for your platform from the releases page, for example for Linux:
wget https://github.com/broodjeaap/go-watch/releases/download/1.0/go-watch-1.0-linux-amd64 -O ./gowatch

And make it executable:
chmod +x ./gowatch

Download the config template:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/broodjeaap/go-watch/master/web/config.tmpl -O ./config.yaml

Or use the binary to generate it:

./gowatch -printConfig 2> config.yaml
# or 
./gowatch -writeConfig config.yaml

And modify it to fit your needs, then simply run:
./gowatch

Docker

Probably the easiest way to get started is with the prebuilt docker image ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest, first get a config template:
docker run --rm ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest -printConfig 2> config.yaml

Or:
docker run --rm -v $PWD:/config ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest -writeConfig /config/config.yaml

After modifying the config to fit your needs, start the docker container

docker run \
    -p 8080:8080 \
    -v $PWD/:/config \
    ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest

Compose templates

There are a few docker-compose templates in the docs/compose directory that can be downloaded and used as starting points.
For example, if you want to set up GoWatch with Browserless, Apprise and a PostgreSQL database backend:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/broodjeaap/go-watch/master/docs/compose/apprise-browserless-postgresql.yml -O ./docker-compose.yml

Config

Database

By default, GoWatch will use an SQLite database, stored in the /config directory for the docker image.
If you have only a few watches with schedules of minutes+ then SQLite is probably fine. But with more watches, especially with shorter schedules, Gorm will start logging warnings about SLOW SQL.
Which are just warnings, but at that point it's probably better to switch to another database.

You can use another database by changing the database.dsn value in the config or GOWATCH_DATABASE_DSN environment variable, for example with a PostgreSQL database:

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest
    container_name: go-watch
    environment:
    - GOWATCH_DATABASE_DSN=postgres://gorm:gorm@db:5432/gorm
    volumes:
    - /host/path/to/config:/config
    ports:
    - "8080:8080"
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
  db:
    image: postgres:15
    environment:
    - POSTGRES_USER=gorm
    - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=gorm
    - POSTGRES_DB=gorm
    volumes:
    - /host/path/to/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -d $${POSTGRES_DB} -U $${POSTGRES_USER}"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5

Pruning

An automatic database prune job that removes repeating values, this can be scheduled by adding a cron schedule to the config or with the GOWATCH_SCHEDULE_DELAY environment variable:

database:
  dsn: "/config/watch.db"
  prune: "@every 1h"

Startup CronJob delay

If there are multiple watches set up with the same schedule then if GoWatch is restarted, all these watches will trigger at the same time, which causes a short burst of activity.
It might be preferable to spread out these schedules a bit, this can be done by setting schedule.delay in the config or with the GOWATCH_SCHEDULE_DELAY environment variable:

schedule:
  delay: "5s"

Proxy

An HTTP/HTTPS proxy can be configured in the config or through the GOWATCH_PROXY_URL environment variable:

proxy:
  url: http://proxy.com:1234

This will not work automatically for requests made through Lua filters, but when using the docker image, the HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables can also be used which will route all traffic through the proxy:

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest
    container_name: go-watch
    environment:
    - HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.com:1234
    - HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.com:1234

Proxy pools

Proxy 'pools' can be created by configuring the proxy that GoWatch points to, for example with Squid:

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest
    container_name: go-watch
    environment:
    - HTTP_PROXY=http://squid_proxy:3128
    - HTTPS_PROXY=http://squid_proxy:3128
  squid_proxy:
    image: sameersbn/squid:latest
    volumes:
    - /path/to/squid.conf:/etc/squid/squid.conf

And in the squid.conf the proxy pool would be defined with cache_peers like this:

cache_peer proxy1.com parent 3128 0 round-robin no-query
cache_peer proxy2.com parent 3128 0 round-robin no-query login=user:pass

An example squid.conf can be found in docs/proxy/squid-1.conf.

Tor

Tor can also be used to proxy your requests, for example with the tor-privoxy container:

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest
    environment:
    - HTTP_PROXY=http://tor-privoxy:8118
    - HTTPS_PROXY=http://tor-privoxy:8118
    volumes:
    - ./tmp:/config
    ports:
    - "8080:8080"
  tor-privoxy:
    image: dockage/tor-privoxy

To test if it's working, add a Get URL filter with a https://check.torproject.org/api/ip value, and check the result.

Reverse Proxy

GoWatch can be run behind a reverse proxy, if it's hosted under a subdomain (https://gowatch.domain.tld), no changes to the config are needed.
But if you want to run GoWatch under a path (https://domain.tld/gowatch), you can set the gin.urlprefix value in the config or the GOWATCH_GIN_URLPREFIX environment variable can be used.

gin:
  urlprefix: "/gowatch"

Browserless

Some websites (Amazon for example) don't send all content on the first request, it's added later through javascript.
To still be able to watch products from these types of websites, GoWatch supports Browserless, the Browserless URL can be added to the config:

browserless:
  url: http://your.browserless:3000

Or as an environment variable, for example in a docker-compose:

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest
    container_name: go-watch
    environment:
    - GOWATCH_BROWSERLESS_URL=http://browserless:3000
    volumes:
    - /host/path/to/config:/config
    ports:
    - "8080:8080"
  browserless:
    image: browserless/chrome:latest

To use Browserless, the Browserless Get URL, Browserless Get URLs, Browserless Function or Browserless Function on result filters must be used.

Note that for Browserless request to be proxied, Browserless needs to be configured to do so:

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest
    container_name: go-watch
    environment:
    - GOWATCH_PROXY_URL=http://tor-privoxy:8118 
    - GOWATCH_BROWSERLESS_URL=http://browserless:3000
    volumes:
    - /host/path/to/config:/config
    ports:
    - "8080:8080"
  tor-privoxy:
    image: dockage/tor-privoxy
  browserless:
    image: browserless/chrome:latest
    environment:
    - DEFAULT_LAUNCH_ARGS=["--proxy-server=socks5://tor-privoxy:9050"]

Authentication

GoWatch doesn't have built in authentication, but we can use a reverse proxy for that, for example through Traefik:

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest
    container_name: go-watch
    environment:
    - GOWATCH_DATABASE_DSN=postgres://gorm:gorm@db:5432/gorm
    volumes:
    - /host/path/to/config:/config
    ports:
    - "8181:8080"
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
    labels:
    - "traefik.http.routers.gowatch.rule=Host(`192.168.178.254`)"
    - "traefik.http.routers.gowatch.middlewares=test-auth"
  db:
    image: postgres:15
    environment:
    - POSTGRES_USER=gorm
    - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=gorm
    - POSTGRES_DB=gorm
    volumes:
    - /host/path/to/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -d $${POSTGRES_DB} -U $${POSTGRES_USER}"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
    depends_on:
    - proxy
  proxy:
    image: traefik:v2.9.6
    command: --providers.docker
    labels:
    - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-auth.basicauth.users=broodjeaap:$$2y$$10$$aUvoh7HNdt5tvf8PYMKaaOyCLD3Uel03JtEIPxFEBklJE62VX4rD6"
    ports:
    - "8080:80"
    volumes:
    - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

Change the Host label to the correct ip/hostname and generate a user/password string with htpasswd for the basicauth.users label, note that the $ character is escaped with $$

Filters

GoWatch comes with many filters that cover most typical use cases.

Schedule

The Schedule filter is used to schedule when your watch will run.
It uses the cron package to schedule Go routines, some common examples would be:

@every 15m: will trigger every 15 minutes starting on server start.
@hourly: will trigger on the hour.
30 * * * *: will trigger every hour on the half hour.

More detailed instructions can be found in its documentation.

Optionally one or more 'jitter' duration strings can be added:

@every 15m + 10m: Will trigger every 15 to 25 minutes
@every 15m + 5m + 5m: Same as above, but more centered around 20 minutes

Get URL

Fetches the given URL and outputs the HTTP response.
For more complicated requests, POSTing/headers/login, use the HTTP functionality in the Lua filter (snippets for these requests are availble from the web UI).
During editing, http requests are cached, so not to trigger any DOS protection on your sources.

Get URLs

Fetches every URL given as input and outputs every HTTP response.
During editing, http requests are cached, so not to trigger any DOS protection on your sources.

CSS

Use a CSS selector to filter your http responses.
The Cascadia package is used for this filter, check the docs to see what is and isn't supported.

XPath

Use an XPath to filter your http responses.
The XPath package is used for this filter, check the docs to see what is and isn't supported.

JSON

Use a this to filter your JSON responses, the gjson package is used for this filter.
Some common examples would be:

product.price
items.3
products.#.price

Replace

Simple replace filter, supports regular expressions.
If the With value is empty, it will just remove matching text.

Match

Searches for the regex, outputs every match.

Substring

Substring allows for a Python like substring selection.
For the input string 'Hello World!':

:5: Hello
6:: World!
6,0,7: WHo
-6:: World!
-6:,:5: World!Hello

Subset

Subset allows for a Python like subset selection of its inputs.
For a filter with parents with these results:

First parent
- zero
- one
Second parent
- two
Third parent
- three
- four Then:
0: zero
-1: four
0,3: zero, three
2:4: two, three
-2:: three, four
:-2: zero, one, two, three

Contains

Inputs pass if they contain the given regex.

Store

Stores each input value in the database under its own name.
It's recommended to do this after reducing inputs to a single value (Minimum/Maximum/Average/etc).

Expect

Outputs a value when it has no inputs, useful to do something (notify) when something goes wrong with your Watch.
Will only trigger once and can be set to wait multiple times before triggering.

Disable Schedules

Disables all schedules of a watch when it gets any inputs from its parents.
Should be used with an expect filter, useful for disabling a Watch when it keeps failing.

Notify

Executes the given template and sends the resulting string as a message to the given notifier(s).
It uses the Golang templating language, filters are available by their name, so for the filter named Min in the intro:

{{ .Min }} gets the results (Multiple values get joined by , )
{{ .Min_Type }} gets the type of the filter
{{ .Min_Var1 }} gets the first variable, useful for Get URL filters or Schedule filters
{{ .Min_Var2 }} gets the second variable

To configure notifiers see the notifiers section.

Math

Sum

Sums the inputs together, nonnumerical values are skipped.

Minimum

Outputs the lowest value of the inputs, nonnumerical values are skipped.

Maximum

Outputs the highest value of the inputs, nonnumerical values are skipped.

Average

Outputs the average of the inputs, nonnumerical values are skipped.

Count

Outputs the number of inputs.

Round

Outputs the inputs rounded to the given decimals, nonnumerical values are skipped.

Condition

Different Than Last

Passes an input if it is different than the last stored value.

Lower Than Last

Passes an input if it is lower than the last stored value.

Lowest

Passes an input if it is lower than all previous stored values.

Lower Than

Passes an input if it is lower than a given value.

Higher Than Last

Passes an input if it is higher than the last stored value.

Highest

Passes an input if it is higher than all previous stored values.

Higher Than

Passes an input if it is higher than a given value.

Browserless

Browserless Get URL

Fetches the given URL through Browserless and outputs the HTTP response.
Will log an error if no Browserless instance is configured.

Browserless Get URLs

Fetches every URL given as input through Browserless and outputs every HTTP response.
Will log an error if no Browserless instance is configured.

Browserless Function

Executes the given Puppeteer function in a Browserless session.

Browserless Function On Results

Executes the given Puppeteer function in a Browserless session for every result.

Lua

The Lua filter wraps gopher-lua, with gopher-lua-libs to greatly extend the capabilities of the Lua VM.
A basic script that just passes all inputs to the output looks like this:

for i,input in pairs(inputs) do
	table.insert(outputs, input)
end

Both inputs and outputs are convenience tables provided by GoWatch to make Lua scripting a bit easier. There is also a logs table that can be used the same way as the outputs table (table.insert(logs, 'this will be logged')) to provide some basic logging.

Much of the functionality that is provided through individual filters in GoWatch can also be done from Lua.
The gopher-lua-libs provide an http lib, whose output can be parsed with the xmlpath or json libs and then filtered with a regular expression or some regular Lua scripting to then finally be turned into a ready to send notification through a template.

Notifiers

Shoutrrr

Shoutrrr can be used to notify many different services, check their docs for a list of which ones.
An example config for sending notifications through Shoutrrr:

notifiers:
  Shoutrrr-telegram-discord:
    type: "shoutrrr"
    urls:
    - telegram://<token>@telegram?chats=<channel-1-id>,<chat-2-id>
    - discord://<token>@<webhookid>
    - etc...
database:
  dsn: "watch.db"
  prune: "@every 1h"

Apprise

Apprise is another option to send notifications, it supports many different services/protocols, but it requires access to an Apprise API.
Luckily there is a docker image available that we can add to our compose:

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/broodjeaap/go-watch:latest
    container_name: go-watch
    volumes:
    - /host/path/to/:/config
    ports:
    - "8080:8080"
  apprise:
    image: caronc/apprise:latest

And the notifier config:

notifiers:
  apprise:
    type: "apprise"
    url: "http://apprise:8000/notify"
    urls:
    - "tgram://<bot_token>/<chat_id>/"
    - "discord://<WebhookID>/<WebhookToken>/"
database:
  dsn: "watch.db"
  prune: "@every 1h"

File

GoWatch can also simply append your notification text to a file:

notifiers:
  File:
    type: "file"
    path: /config/notifications.log

Build/Development

For local development, clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/broodjeaap/go-watch

And build the binary:
go build -o ./gowatch

Or:
go run .

Or if you have Air set up, just:
air

type script compilation

tsc --watch

Dependencies

The following libaries are used in Go-Watch:

Gin for HTTP server
- multitemplate for template inheritance
Cascadia for CSS selectors
htmlquery for XPath selectors
validator for user user input validation
Shoutrrr for built in notifiers
cron for job scheduling
viper for config management
gjson for JSON selectors
gopher-lua for Lua scripting
- gopher-lua-libs for expanding the Lua scripting functionality
net for http fetching
gorm for database abstraction
- sqlite
- postgres
- mysql
- sqlserver
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Intro

Run

Binary

Docker

Compose templates

Config

Database

Pruning

Startup CronJob delay

Proxy

Proxy pools

Tor

Reverse Proxy

Browserless

Authentication

Filters

Schedule

Get URL

Get URLs

CSS

XPath

JSON

Replace

Match

Substring

Subset

Contains

Store

Expect

Disable Schedules

Notify

Math

Sum

Minimum

Maximum

Average

Count

Round

Condition

Different Than Last

Lower Than Last

Lowest

Lower Than

Higher Than Last

Highest

Higher Than

Browserless

Browserless Get URL

Browserless Get URLs

Browserless Function

Browserless Function On Results

Lua

Notifiers

Shoutrrr

Apprise

File

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