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# Intro
GoWatch works through filters, a filter performs certain operations on the input it recieves.
GoWatch works through filters, a filter performs operations on the input it recieves.
Here is an example of a 'Watch' that calculates the lowest and average price of 4090s on NewEgg and notifies the user if the lowest price changed:
![NewEgg 4090](docs/images/newegg_4090.png)
![NewEgg 4090](docs/images/newegg_4090.png)
Note that everything, including scheduling/storing/notifying, is a `filter`.
`Schedule` is a [cron](#cron) filter with a '@every 15m' value, so this will run every 15 minutes.
`NewEgg Fetch` is a [Get URL](#get-url) filter with a 'https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709&d=4090&isdeptsrh=1&PageSize=96' value, it's output will be the HTTP response.
`Select Price` is a [CSS](#css) filter with the value '.item-container .item-action strong[class!="item-buying-choices-price"]' value, it's output will be the html elements containing the prices.
An alternative filter type could've been the [XPath](#xpath) filter.
`Sanitize` is a [Replace](#replace) filter, using a regular expression ('[^0-9]') it removes anything that's not a number.
`Avg` is an [Average](#average) filter, it calculates the average value of its inputs.
`Min` is a [Minimum](#minimum) filter, it calculates the minimum value of its inputs.
`Store Avg` and `Store Min` are [Store](#store) filters, they store its input values in the database.
`Diff` is a [Different Then Last](#different-then-last) filter, only passing on the inputs that are different then the last value stored in the database.
`Notify` is a [Notify](#notify) filter, if there are any inputs to this filter, it will execute a template and send the result to a user defined 'notifier' (Telegram/Discord/Matrix/etc).
# Filters
## Cron
## Get URL
## CSS
## XPath
## Replace
## Store
## Notify
## Math
### Average
### Minimum
## Condition
### Different Then Last
## type script compilation