changedetection.io: Self hosted website change detection (github.com)
from OpenAltFinder@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 19 May 13:20
https://lemmy.world/post/47061174

Just came across this, and thought it was a pretty cool tool to self-host. You can use it to monitor price changes, or new events being added, or to check if that out of stock thing is back in stock.

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irmadlad@lemmy.world on 19 May 13:37 next collapse

I use this fairly often. Simple, effective, no complaints really.

USSEthernet@startrek.website on 19 May 16:25 next collapse

Great tool, been using it for a while. I get my notifications via RSS. Wish I could figure out how to make it detect prices on Amazon though, that doesn’t seem to work. And some sites just block it completely requiring a proxy/captcha solver.

nykula@piefed.social on 19 May 16:36 next collapse

For plain text files, such as changelogs and translation updates, I have a pull request that makes FreshRSS track diffs, without overhead of a full browser: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8107

Mora@pawb.social on 19 May 23:27 collapse

ChangeDetection does not necessarily need a browser and can be run without, but can do more with it (e.g. bypass some bot protections or even do some steps on the website, like filling a form, before checking for changes).

superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 May 22:11 next collapse

I could never get this to work right nearly every website would fail because of captchas

OpenAltFinder@lemmy.world on 20 May 03:08 collapse

Yeah, that’s always a struggle with scraping, lots of sites don’t like it, even if you try and be respectful.

Reisen@sh.itjust.works on 19 May 23:13 next collapse

i used this in the past. is pretty neat and has various ways of notifying you about the change, ever discord notifications

pathos@lemmy.ml on 20 May 03:09 collapse

Very nice project!