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That helps a lot, because it's for websites which is what I want to compare. I am looking for changes in a site, and I have some archives, but tools for merging code are too labor intensive and don't give a good visual report that I can show to a supervisor. This is good moving forward, but doesn't cover historical pages. I was hoping for something where I could call up two pages and get a visual display of differences for the display version of html, not the code. -Wilhelmina On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, I'm not sure if you're really looking for a diff tool, so I'll just > shout an answer to a question that I think you might be asking. I use a > variation of the script posted here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1494488/watch-a-web-page-for-changes > > > for watching a web page for changes. I mostly only ever use this for > watching for new artifacts to appear in Maven Central (because refreshing > a web page is pretty dull "work"). > > Hope this helps. > > -- > HARDY POTTINGER <[log in to unmask]> > University of Missouri Library Systems > http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ > https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/ > "Do you love it? Do you hate it? There it is, the way you made it." > --Frank Zappa > > > > > > On 4/23/13 3:24 PM, "Wilhelmina Randtke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >I would like to compare versions of a website scraped at different times > >to > >see what paragraphs on a page have changed. Does anyone here know of a > >tool for holding two files side by side and noting what is the same and > >what is different between the files? > > > >It seems like any simple script to note differences in two strings of text > >would work, but I don't know a tool to use. > > > >-Wilhelmina Randtke >