diff --git a/srcpkgs/urlwatch/patches/test_handler.patch b/srcpkgs/urlwatch/patches/test_handler.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..73f301e49f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/urlwatch/patches/test_handler.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Work around https://github.com/thp/urlwatch/issues/677
+
+diff --git a/lib/urlwatch/tests/test_handler.py b/lib/urlwatch/tests/test_handler.py
+index 736536a..fac9449 100644
+--- a/lib/urlwatch/tests/test_handler.py
++++ b/lib/urlwatch/tests/test_handler.py
+@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ def test_pep8_conformance():
+ 
+ class ConfigForTest(CommandConfig):
+     def __init__(self, config, urls, cache, hooks, verbose):
++        sys.argv = sys.argv[:1]
+         (prefix, bindir) = os.path.split(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])))
+         super().__init__('urlwatch', os.path.dirname(__file__), bindir, prefix, config, urls, hooks, cache, verbose)
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/urlwatch/template b/srcpkgs/urlwatch/template
index a10260a19af..0d15244c6ac 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/urlwatch/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/urlwatch/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'urlwatch'
 pkgname=urlwatch
-version=2.23
-revision=2
+version=2.25
+revision=1
 build_style=python3-module
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
 depends="python3-appdirs python3-keyring python3-minidb python3-requests
@@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ depends="python3-appdirs python3-keyring python3-minidb python3-requests
 # Check the Docs for optional packages:
 # https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dependencies.html#optional-packages
 checkdepends="python3-pytest python3-pycodestyle python3-docutils
- python3-Pygments ${depends}"
+ python3-Pygments python3-jq ${depends}"
 short_desc="Tool for monitoring webpages for updates"
 maintainer="RunningDroid <runningdroid@zoho.com>"
 license="BSD-3-Clause"
 homepage="https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/u/urlwatch/urlwatch-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=73a29efbef80c02bc8c285fca427793979c0e4bef40bc084df5de5436378b842
+checksum=6802297d3318286e7f3d36b9a4567a2fb09b0ae779d4b76811dd29a7281c1f8a
 
 do_check() {
 	# skip the tests that require python modules that aren't packaged
 	# (pdftotext & pytesseract)
-	pytest -k "not (pdf or ocr or json)" -v
+	pytest -k 'not (pdf or ocr)' -v
 }
 
 post_install() {