Allow silencing of web access logs

[AndrewKvalheim]

Changedetection.io currently emits web access logs on stderr that don’t respect LOGGER_LEVEL:

  $ podman run --rm --publish '5000:5000' --env LOGGER_LEVEL='INFO' changedetection.io
  2024-03-22 20:40:40.116 | INFO     | changedetectionio.store:__init__:45 - Datastore path is '/datastore/url-watches.json'
  2024-03-22 20:40:40.116 | CRITICAL | changedetectionio.store:__init__:91 - No JSON DB found at /datastore/url-watches.json, creating JSON store at /datastore
  2024-03-22 20:40:40.117 | INFO     | changedetectionio.store:sync_to_json:420 - Saving JSON..
  2024-03-22 20:40:40.117 | INFO     | changedetectionio.store:sync_to_json:420 - Saving JSON..
  2024-03-22 20:40:40.119 | INFO     | changedetectionio.store:sync_to_json:420 - Saving JSON..
┃ (1) wsgi starting up on http://0.0.0.0:5000
  2024-03-22 20:40:41.150 | INFO     | changedetectionio.update_worker:run:248 - Processing watch UUID bc68db9c-cef9-43f8-ad4a-76689ed70484 Priority 1711140040 URL https://news.ycombinator.com/
  2024-03-22 20:40:41.151 | INFO     | changedetectionio.update_worker:run:248 - Processing watch UUID 7346370b-6d30-4c3f-8ddf-1d14de324931 Priority 1711140040 URL https://changedetection.io/CHANGELOG.txt
  2024-03-22 20:40:41.414 | INFO     | changedetectionio.update_worker:run:506 - Change triggered in UUID bc68db9c-cef9-43f8-ad4a-76689ed70484 due to first history saving (no notifications sent) - https://news.ycombinator.com/
  2024-03-22 20:40:42.918 | INFO     | changedetectionio.update_worker:run:506 - Change triggered in UUID 7346370b-6d30-4c3f-8ddf-1d14de324931 due to first history saving (no notifications sent) - https://changedetection.io/CHANGELOG.txt
┃ (1) accepted ('10.0.2.100', 34698)
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7812 0.063777
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/styles/pure-min.css HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 0.002249
┃ (1) accepted ('10.0.2.100', 34714)
┃ (1) accepted ('10.0.2.100', 34716)
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/styles/styles.css?v=0.45.16 HTTP/1.1" 200 8674 0.001966
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/js/jquery-3.6.0.min.js HTTP/1.1" 200 32361 0.004307
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/js/toggle-theme.js HTTP/1.1" 200 1117 0.001498
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/js/watch-overview.js HTTP/1.1" 200 1182 0.001342
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/images/spread.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 1158 0.001050
┃ (1) accepted ('10.0.2.100', 34726)
┃ (1) accepted ('10.0.2.100', 34728)
┃ (1) accepted ('10.0.2.100', 34746)
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/images/bell-off.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 1634 0.001030
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/images/Google-Chrome-icon.png HTTP/1.1" 200 14886 0.000925
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/images/spread-white.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 1268 0.000839
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/images/pause.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 3297 0.000817
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/images/Generic_Feed-icon.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 989 0.001147
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/images/gradient-border.png HTTP/1.1" 200 22393 0.001131
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/js/jquery-3.6.0.min.js HTTP/1.1" 200 32361 0.002757
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/favicons/apple-touch-icon.png HTTP/1.1" 200 32336 0.001297
┃ 10.0.2.100 - - [22/Mar/2024 20:40:47] "GET /static/favicons/favicon-32x32.png HTTP/1.1" 200 14318 0.000767

My goal is to have some mechanism by which to silence the web access logs. Here I’ve offered one solution, but perhaps someone else can suggest a better one.

[dgtlmoon]

Hmm they are different subsystems

One is the WSGI server and one is the actual 'changedetection'

I would prefer some env var like SILENT_WSGI instead, could you do that?

[AndrewKvalheim]

Something like that?