changedetection.io - The best and simplest self-hosted website change detection monitoring service. An alternative to Visualping, Watchtower etc. Designed for simplicity - the main goal is to simply monitor which websites had a text change. Open source web page change detection.

changedetection.io

Self-hosted change monitoring of web pages.

Know when web pages change! Stay ontop of new information!

Live your data-life pro-actively instead of re-actively, do not rely on manipulative social media for consuming important information.

Example use cases

Know when …

• Government department updates (changes are often only on their websites)
• Local government news (changes are often only on their websites)
• New software releases, security advisories when you’re not on their mailing list.
• Festivals with changes
• Realestate listing changes
• COVID related news from government websites

Get monitoring now! super simple, one command!

docker run -d --restart always -p "127.0.0.1:5000:5000" -v datastore-volume:/datastore --name changedetection.io dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

Now visit http://127.0.0.1:5000 , You should now be able to access the UI.

Updating to latest version

Highly recommended :)

docker pull dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
docker kill $(docker ps -a|grep changedetection.io|awk '{print $1}')
docker rm $(docker ps -a|grep changedetection.io|awk '{print $1}')
docker run -d --restart always -p "127.0.0.1:5000:5000" -v datastore-volume:/datastore --name changedetection.io dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

Screenshots

Examining differences in content.

Please :star: star :star: this project and help it grow! https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/

Notifications

ChangeDetection.io supports a massive amount of notifications (including email, office365, custom APIs, etc) when a web-page has a change detected thanks to the apprise library. Simply set one or more notification URL’s in the [edit] tab of that watch.

Just some examples

discord://webhook_id/webhook_token
flock://app_token/g:channel_id
gitter://token/room
gchat://workspace/key/token
msteams://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/
o365://TenantID:AccountEmail/ClientID/ClientSecret/TargetEmail
rocket://user:password@hostname/#Channel
mailto://user:pass@example.com?to=receivingAddress@example.com
json://someserver.com/custom-api
syslog://

And everything else in this list!

Proxy

A proxy for ChangeDectection.io can be configured by setting environment the HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY variables, examples are also in the docker-compose.yml

NO_PROXY exclude list can be specified by following "localhost,192.168.0.0/24"

as docker run with -e

docker run -d --restart always -e HTTPS_PROXY="socks5h://10.10.1.10:1080" -p "127.0.0.1:5000:5000" -v datastore-volume:/datastore --name changedetection.io dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

With docker-compose, see the Proxy support example in docker-compose.yml.

For more information see https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies

This proxy support also extends to the notifications https://github.com/caronc/apprise/issues/387#issuecomment-841718867

Notes

• Does not yet support Javascript
• Wont work with Cloudfare type “Please turn on javascript” protected pages
• You can use the ‘headers’ section to monitor password protected web page changes

RaspberriPi support?

RaspberriPi and linux/arm/v6 linux/arm/v7 devices are supported!

Support us

Do you use changedetection.io to make money? does it save you time or money? Does it make your life easier? less stressful? Remember, we write this software when we should be doing actual paid work, we have to buy food and pay rent just like you.

Please support us, even small amounts help a LOT.

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