Hi all :) It’s a been a while and I’ve been super busy, but here’s another super nice release (thanks for the feedback!), support for xPath2.0/3.0 means you can use logic in your selectors (for example, give the count of the number of divs that contain certain text, and much more). UI improvements, Selectable browser (plug it into Bright Data’s scraping browser!) and more, check it out! Much ❤ from the changedetection team. https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io / changedetection.io
Website content monitoring and notification ‘overview’ list of websites being watched
This looks amazing! What’s everyone using it for? I want ideas, haha. The only thing I can think of is notifying when my small subreddits post something, since they killed rif.
Awesome, thanks!
I have switch from urlwatch2 to here, however the notification template detail is not as much as urlwatch2, no matter I edit myself
May I have any good to use template?
Awesome tool. I have bought a lot of theater tickets thanks to this. Thank you!!
Has anyone managed to use this to monitor Facebook groups? Like, with a session cookie
one of the best open source projects out there. check it out if you didn’t yet!
Couldn’t agree more with you. This is one of THE MOST important software to selfhost. Use it daily and would be impossible to keep track without it. It’s just so well done without anything to “complain” about. All important features are there and it just works. :)
Can you give me an example of sites you track? I can think of a couple but not many.
How about every site on the internet? just use your imagination…
manual.bubble.io documentation, https://www.canyon.com bikes
https://www.eriksbikeshop.com https://www.onbuy.com/ i mean… just use your
magination job sites https://www.ninefeettall.com/careers/
https://www.network-n.com/careers/ https://www.merityre.co.uk/recruitment
https://www.thriftbooks.com amazon.com ebay , software updates, bestbuy restock alerts, etc etc etc etc
etc
etceverything from any online store on which you track sales/stock notifications to linux distros changelogs to 0nlyf@ns sales
One example I remember… getting an appointment for Global Entry.
If you’re not American, you might not know what that is… but it’s an expedited airport/immigration program in the US and getting an appointment often takes months.
You can use tools like this to monitor the appointments page for cancellations. I didn’t use this specific tool but I used something similar when I signed up for GE and was able to get an appointment 2 weeks after I applied.
Please give us a vote/rating https://alternativeto.net/software/changedetection-io/ it sounds like this software changed your life :)
Btw, check out our tutorials page for some inspiration https://changedetection.io/tutorials
Will definitely check out! Do these also work on self hosted instance?
This fantastic piece of software got me release date IMAX Oppenheimer tickets! Highly recommend
Is it possible to pull & compare the whole webpage source? Since I’ve found some websites has hidden changes that aren’t made visible, both the basic and playwright fetcher won’t check the underground changes. u/dgtlmoon123
Yes, prefix the url you enter with “source:” so “source:https://google.com”
please give us a vote at https://alternativeto.net/software/changedetection-io/ :)
Wow, such a nice tool. Wonder if it could be used for detecting software releases (such as new versions of container images, opensource projects, etc) or if there’s any other dedicated software for this task.
If you want to track docker images, I just found ”What’s up docker” and am using it as we speak :)
Cheers!
It actually automatically tracked every container on my local docker host by default on install. But you need to configure the notifications and the triggers for more granularity. Very nice!
Can this be used track prices of specific Amazon product pages? I ask because Amazon has sophisticated anti-scraping shit built in.
CamelCamelCamel might be a better option for that specific use case, but for everything else, this tool is amazing. Been using it for years.
Great tool and great update. Must have for self hosted.
First time heard someone called Reddit “website content monitoring tool” 🤔
What changedetetction.io really does?
I just find new great software to tinker with every day on this sub. Luckliy I am on sickleave and have plenty of time. Othervise this sub is anxeity inducing 🤓
I see this has subscription model? Can someone explain what is not available in self hosted
it’s all exactly the same, except subscription model gives you a few extra built in proxies, otherwise you are totally free to choose :)
What is better on the Bright Data scraping browser? And is the performance better that chromium for a RPI4?