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Automating your favourite browser to load and screenshot each version and then using http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compare/ should work. Note that this will also catch the scenario where someone has changed the page by changing an image on the page. cheers stuart On 24/04/13 10:18, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote: > 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 >> > -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/