By far the most valuable thing I host. Thank you!
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glad to hear it! if its valuable to you, please drop a review at https://alternativeto.net/software/changedetection-io/ :)
First time heard someone called Reddit "website content monitoring tool" 🤔
What changedetetction.io really does?
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.
already answered https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/186ltbv/comment/kb9n6is/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Awesome, thanks!
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/ :)
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?
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 🤓
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. :)
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.
Thanks! Tried it out, its cool! How can I switch the UI to https?
You should use a real web server infront of it in this case, see https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Running-changedetection.io-behind-a-reverse-proxy (nginx apache etc)
It's pretty awesome software. The main use case for me is tracking my home equity from different sites and also checking the status of my qBittorent. I have it integrated with Apprise and Gotify, which then sends alerts to my phone. 10/10 would recommend.
the 'export data' part is simple but works great, i'm doing something similar for graphing the number of houses that appear for sale in my area over time (some super interesting stuff over the last year!)
btw, if you can reward us https://alternativeto.net/software/changedetection-io/ pop a review into there, we really want to break 20 reviews/likes :)
One thing I’d love to see is the ability to download a pdf and send that as the change. More options past that like reading the pdf would be nice but not necessary.
I tried to use playwright to do it, but most of the sites I want to do it with open the pdf in a new tab and right now the playwright instructions can’t handle that.
it supports PDF natively, can you tell me the URL you are trying? it should PDF-to-text already
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?