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Instantiate CompareOptions.
Set directory_compare = True.
Optionally set folder_comparison_extension to FolderComparisonExtension.HTML for an HTML report (the default is TXT).
Optionally set show_only_changed = True to filter out unchanged items.
Create Comparer with the source folder path and the CompareOptions.
Call add() with the target folder and the same CompareOptions.
Call compare_directory() with the result file path and the CompareOptions.

Example: Compare two folders

The example below uses the bare folder names SourceFolder and TargetFolder rather than ./SourceFolder so that the example-runner can detect them as shared sample directories. In your own code you can use any absolute or relative path — ./source-folder, /home/me/projects/src, etc.

compare_folders.py

from groupdocs.comparison import Comparer
from groupdocs.comparison.options import CompareOptions, FolderComparisonExtension

def compare_folders():
    compare_options = CompareOptions()
    compare_options.directory_compare = True
    compare_options.folder_comparison_extension = FolderComparisonExtension.HTML
    compare_options.show_only_changed = True

    with Comparer("SourceFolder", compare_options) as comparer:
        comparer.add("TargetFolder", compare_options)
        comparer.compare_directory("./result.html", compare_options)
        print("Folders compared successfully. Check output in result.html.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    compare_folders()

result.htmlResult.html

<!DOCTYPE html><style>
details {
   padding-left: 20px;
}
details details 
   padding-left: calc(100 % -20px);
}
details summary {
    padding-left: 20px;
    cursor: pointer;
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Replace ./SourceFolder and ./TargetFolder with the directories you want to compare.

The following images show the comparison results:

Result in HTML	Result in TXT

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