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. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya <alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu> 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:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Wilhelmina Randtke > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:24 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > 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
