Update jinja

changedetectionio/fetch_site_status.py

@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ class perform_site_check():
             request_headers['Accept-Encoding'] = request_headers['Accept-Encoding'].replace(', br', '')
 
         timeout = self.datastore.data['settings']['requests'].get('timeout')
-        url = watch.get('url')
+
+        url = watch.link
+
         request_body = self.datastore.data['watching'][uuid].get('body')
         request_method = self.datastore.data['watching'][uuid].get('method')
         ignore_status_codes = self.datastore.data['watching'][uuid].get('ignore_status_codes', False)

changedetectionio/model/Watch.py

@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ class model(dict):
             print ("> Creating data dir {}".format(target_path))
             os.mkdir(target_path)
 
+    @property
+    def link(self):
+        url = self.get('url', '')
+        if '{%' in url or '{{' in url:
+            from jinja2 import Environment
+            # Jinja2 available in URLs along with https://pypi.org/project/jinja2-time/
+            jinja2_env = Environment(extensions=['jinja2_time.TimeExtension'])
+            return str(jinja2_env.from_string(url).render())
+        return url
+
     @property
     def label(self):
         # Used for sorting

changedetectionio/templates/edit.html

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
                 <fieldset>
                     <div class="pure-control-group">
                         {{ render_field(form.url, placeholder="https://...", required=true, class="m-d") }}
-                        <span class="pure-form-message-inline">Some sites use JavaScript to create the content, for this you should <a href="https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Fetching-pages-with-WebDriver">use the Chrome/WebDriver Fetcher</a></span>
+                        <span class="pure-form-message-inline">Some sites use JavaScript to create the content, for this you should <a href="https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Fetching-pages-with-WebDriver">use the Chrome/WebDriver Fetcher</a></span><br/>
+                        <span class="pure-form-message-inline">You can use variables in the URL, perfect for inserting the current date and other logic, <a href="https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Handling-variables-in-the-watched-URL">help and examples here</a></span><br/>
                     </div>
                     <div class="pure-control-group">
                         {{ render_field(form.title, class="m-d") }}

changedetectionio/templates/watch-overview.html

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
                     <a class="state-{{'on' if watch.notification_muted}}" href="{{url_for('index', op='mute', uuid=watch.uuid, tag=active_tag)}}"><img src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='bell-off.svg')}}" alt="Mute notifications" title="Mute notifications"/></a>
                 </td>
                 <td class="title-col inline">{{watch.title if watch.title is not none and watch.title|length > 0 else watch.url}}
-                    <a class="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="{{ watch.url.replace('source:','') }}"></a>
+                    <a class="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="{{ watch.link.replace('source:','') }}"></a>
                     <a href="{{url_for('form_share_put_watch', uuid=watch.uuid)}}"><img style="height: 1em;display:inline-block;" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='spread.svg')}}" /></a>
 
                     {%if watch.fetch_backend == "html_webdriver" %}<img style="height: 1em; display:inline-block;" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='Google-Chrome-icon.png')}}" />{% endif %}

changedetectionio/tests/test_jinja2.py

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+import time
+from flask import url_for
+from .util import live_server_setup
+
+
+# If there was only a change in the whitespacing, then we shouldnt have a change detected
+def test_jinja2_in_url_query(client, live_server):
+    live_server_setup(live_server)
+
+    # Give the endpoint time to spin up
+    time.sleep(1)
+
+    # Add our URL to the import page
+    test_url = url_for('test_return_query', _external=True)
+
+    # because url_for() will URL-encode the var, but we dont here
+    full_url = "{}?{}".format(test_url,
+                              "date={% now 'Europe/Berlin', '%Y' %}.{% now 'Europe/Berlin', '%m' %}.{% now 'Europe/Berlin', '%d' %}", )
+    res = client.post(
+        url_for("form_quick_watch_add"),
+        data={"url": full_url, "tag": "test"},
+        follow_redirects=True
+    )
+    assert b"Watch added" in res.data
+    time.sleep(3)
+    # It should report nothing found (no new 'unviewed' class)
+    res = client.get(
+        url_for("preview_page", uuid="first"),
+        follow_redirects=True
+    )
+    assert b'date=2' in res.data

changedetectionio/tests/util.py

@@ -159,5 +159,10 @@ def live_server_setup(live_server):
         ret = " ".join([auth.username, auth.password, auth.type])
         return ret
 
+    # Just return some GET var
+    @live_server.app.route('/test-return-query', methods=['GET'])
+    def test_return_query():
+        return request.query_string
+
     live_server.start()
 

requirements.txt

@@ -46,5 +46,9 @@ selenium ~= 4.1.0
 # need to revisit flask login versions
 werkzeug ~= 2.0.0
 
+# Templating, so far just in the URLs but in the future can be for the notifications also
+jinja2 ~= 3.1
+jinja2-time
+
 # playwright is installed at Dockerfile build time because it's not available on all platforms