Ask HN: What do you use to track website changes?

Posted by toomuchtodo on Sunday September 09, 2018 @07:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.

What SaaS service or self hosted tools do you use or recommend for monitoring and being notified when website content changes?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to track website changes? by bigsound on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:07PM (#17948492)

I haven't found anything that would satisfy this need. I really would like to see a service around this need.

Currently I use acrchive.org which is far from what you and I are looking for :(

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to track website changes? by toomuchtodo on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:18PM (#17948532)

I’ve been using https://www.followthatpage.com for about a decade. It works, but it seems that development has long ago halted and I’m curious if I’ve missed any of the alternatives out there.

Ideally, I could submit URLs for monitoring with an authenticated API call, could receive both email alerts and webhooks on modify, and there would be an option to have the Internet Archive archive a copy when a modification is detected (and possibly attach a WARC file of the http request/response when a modification was detected).

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to track website changes? by ChrisGranger on Sunday September 09, 2018 @10:16PM (#17948976)

I use https://distill.io/ for this, specifically their Firefox add-on. For a fee, they offer more powerful cloud-based plans as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to track website changes? by toomuchtodo on Monday September 10, 2018 @07:50AM (#17951069)

Thank you!

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