Question - Report http errors only once about urlwatch HOT 5 CLOSED

A quick search of the issues board finds this extremely similar request too: #286

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You have the option of ignoring them entirely: https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced.html#ignoring-connection-errors

You can use max_tries to ignore an error for a number of tries: https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jobs.html#optional-keys-for-all-job-types

The other option is to use a command instead of a url. If you use something like curl to pull the page, then the curl output will switch from the page output to the 404 message, and that will only be reported once. Some hints here: https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jobs.html#configuring-stderr-behavior-for-shell-jobs

There is an argument for a setting that would allow a user to specify that 404 shouldn't count as an error and should just be reported as normal.

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404 is specific for this case, but I think there should be a setting for just this: Report the error only once, and the next report should occur only when this changes, whatever the change might be (an other, but different error, or a real diff, or just that the site is accessible again, etc.)

I don't want to ignore the error, I want to know about it. But I don't want to know about it every 5 minutes (assuming urlwatch runs every 5 mintues).

max_retries is something, but really just pushes the problem away a bit.

Using shell could also work (then with whatever the user wants they can use) but it very much complicates watching a simple url.

So imho there should be an inbuilt option for url for the above mentioned issue.

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Yep, I agree its a good suggestion :)

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Marking as duplicate of #286, let's continue the discussion there?

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