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.
Very nice project!
i used this in the past. is pretty neat and has various ways of notifying you about the change, ever discord notifications
I could never get this to work right nearly every website would fail because of captchas
Yeah, that’s always a struggle with scraping, lots of sites don’t like it, even if you try and be respectful.
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
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).
I use this fairly often. Simple, effective, no complaints really.
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.
