In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Kibitzr on Fedora CoreOS. Kibitzr is a simple and flexible tool for monitoring web pages and extracting data from them.
By the end of this tutorial, you will have Kibitzr installed and running on Fedora CoreOS.
Before we get started, you should have:
Kibitzr requires Python to be installed on your server. By default, Fedora CoreOS comes with Python 3. However, we need to make sure that Python is installed on your system before proceeding with the Kibitzr installation.
To check if Python is installed, run the following command in your terminal:
python3 --version
If Python is not installed, you can install it with the following command:
sudo dnf install python3
Kibitzr can be installed using pip, the package installer for Python. To install pip, run the following command:
sudo dnf install python3-pip
Once pip is installed, you can use it to install Kibitzr with the following command:
sudo pip3 install kibitzr
After installing Kibitzr, you need to create a configuration file. The configuration file specifies which web pages to monitor and how to extract the data from them.
Create a new configuration file using the following command:
sudo mkdir /etc/kibitzr
sudo nano /etc/kibitzr/config.yaml
In the configuration file, you can specify the monitoring task using YAML syntax. Here is an example configuration file:
tasks:
- name: Example Task
every: 5m
watch:
- url: https://www.example.com
css: '#count'
actions:
- telegram:
message: "Example count is {{count.text}}"
to: <your_telegram_id>
token: <your_telegram_token>
This configuration will monitor the URL https://www.example.com every 5 minutes. If the CSS selector #count is found on the page, it will extract its text and send it to your Telegram account.
You can modify the configuration file to fit your monitoring needs. For more information, see the Kibitzr documentation.
Finally, you can run Kibitzr by invoking the following command:
sudo kibitzr
Kibitzr will read the configuration file from /etc/kibitzr/config.yaml and start monitoring the specified web pages.
You can also run Kibitzr in daemon mode, which will run it in the background as a service:
sudo kibitzr --daemon
Kibitzr is a powerful tool for monitoring web pages and extracting data from them. By following this tutorial, you have installed Kibitzr on Fedora CoreOS and configured it to monitor your web pages. With this knowledge, you can now customize and extend Kibitzr to suit your monitoring needs.
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