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Recently discovered changedetection.io. It nicely filled the need I had. I have it watching a few static forum posts for updates that are communicated that way.
I'm a little confused. It's this a self hosted program? Following the link I see a monthly subscription cost.
If you don't want to self host, they offer hosting.
Got it.
That seems pretty cool.
https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
Oh wow.. My 10 year old python script may be replaced now.
Edit: And I already had it starred, because it works just like my 10 year old python script.
You can go semi-advanced mode by using regex to ignore certain line changes. Some sites require you to go super-advanced mode by using playwright running in a headless-v2 container rather than just plain text mode.
It's nice being able to see the history of changes. Especially when there's multiple rapidfire changes.
Oh yea, I'm still going to try it out the next time I need to page watch.
I could never get it working right due to captchas on sites, its a beat idea though