What My Project Does

Meerkat is a fully asynchronous Python library for monitoring data sources and tracking changes over time. Inspired by the constant watchfulness of meerkats, this tool helps you stay aware of shifts in your data—whether it’s new entries, updates, or deletions. Originally created to track job postings, it’s designed to handle any type of data source, making it versatile for various real-world applications.

Meerkat’s CLI module provides an easy way to view changes in your data as text in the terminal, which is especially useful for quickly setting up simple visualizations. However, Meerkat isn’t limited to logging: it can be used to trigger any arbitrary actions in response to data changes, thanks to its action executor. This flexibility lets you define custom workflows, making it more than just a data logger.

Meerkat comes with an example use case—tracking job postings—so you can get a quick start and see the library in action.

Target Audience

Meerkat is ideal for developers who need efficient, lightweight tools for monitoring data sources. It’s well-suited to hobby projects, prototyping, or small-scale production applications where regular change detection is required.

Comparison

I’m not aware of a direct comparison, but if there are similar projects out there, please let me know—I’d love to add them to the README as related projects.

Link: https://github.com/niqodea/meerkat