New irssi script: urlwatch
January 7th, 2009
Because the URL monitoring trigger I mentioned earlier was not enough for my needs, I wrote a more flexible URL monitoring script: urlwatch. It looks for URLs (custom pattern), checks them for exclude targets (networks, channels, or nicks can be excluded), exclude patterns (a regular expression of URLs to ignore), highlights the ones matching custom targets or patterns, and prints (format customizable) the result in the status window.
This script also works out-of-box without configuring, just running it is enough.
Available as part of the scripts project, in irssi/urlwatch.pl. You can either download the whole tree or only the script (tree -> irssi/ -> urlwatch.pl blob).
