From ada3ab562cf422e03bd88f76580c35419ac2050e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dgtlmoon Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 16:13:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Microsoft Windows (markdown) --- Microsoft-Windows.md | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Microsoft-Windows.md b/Microsoft-Windows.md index 0fdbda2..54b001f 100644 --- a/Microsoft-Windows.md +++ b/Microsoft-Windows.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ You can run the app as a Docker container (using `docker-compose`), a Pip install, or from the source directly. The advantage of using `docker-compose` is that you can easily enable the "Chrome WebDriver", however for most sites the built-in "Plain requests" will work (fetches only the HTML and does not run the sites Javascript) -## Python Pip Install Recipe +## Method 1: Python Pip Install Recipe **1. Download and install Python** @@ -28,17 +28,19 @@ You should see the user-interface ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/275001/159666210-6a8878d0-edaf-46a9-8aeb-35a394929688.png) - -# WebDriver / Javascript / Chrome support - -See here https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Fetching-pages-with-WebDriver#microsoft-windows - - - -*** - You can specify other commands like `-d` (different storage path for the data) and `-p` different network port + +### WebDriver / Javascript / Chrome support + +If the pages are using JavaScript you will need to drive a chrome browser via changedetection.io - See here https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Fetching-pages-with-WebDriver#microsoft-windows + + +## Method 2: Docker & Docker-Composee + +[tba] + + **Future** - Please someone add a recipe how to make this into a nice "windows service" that's started correctly at boot time - Please someone add the docker/docker-compose recipe