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On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Alexander Duryee wrote: > The absolute simplest way to do this would be to fire up a terminal > (OSX/Linux) and: > > diff page1.html page2.html | less > > Unfortunately, this will also catch changes made in other markup, and > may or may not be terribly readable. At the very least, I'd suggest adding a '-b' which will ignore changes to whitespace. Also see: http://www.w3.org/wiki/HtmlDiff -Joe > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> I've recently begun to use Beyond Compare: http://www.scootersoftware.com/ It's not free or OSS, though. >> >> There's also a plugin for Notepad++ that does something similar: http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-compare/ This is free, of course. >> >> Thanks! >> Allie >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wilhelmina Randtke >> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:24 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Tool to highlight differences in two files >> >> 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