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Any free web/cloud solution to monitor a webpage for changes?

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publicdomain:
Thanks but I really need a third-party cloud service, any idea?
-kalos (February 28, 2024, 01:31 PM)
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Idea: self-host with a Linux VPS in the cloud.

dantheman:
Have never tried it as registered user, but it does have basic free option and seems to be able to check even sites without RSS.

https://newsblur.com/

4wd:
You can also run your own: changedetection.io

Web Site Change Detection, Restock monitoring and notifications.

Detect website content changes and perform meaningful actions - trigger notifications via Discord, Email, Slack, Telegram, API calls and many more.
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kalos:
I found this which seems interesting: https://webalert.me/

It says it will work as if you visit the website yourself with your browser so it will work with cookies, web forms etc.

I have not tried it yet, will see!

Shades:
Do you know any free web/cloud solution to monitor a webpage for changes and send you an email notification?
-kalos (February 20, 2024, 12:50 PM)
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You mentioned a web/cloud service.  There is often a free tier that you can use for less than 10 or 25 websites. There are also some selfhosted options. It used to be possible to self-host something like this using some free tier of a cloud service.

But in a pinch if I had to pay I would support an opensource project that had a reasonable pricing model. 

https://github.com/thp/urlwatch  /  https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/ URLwatch  (I believe open source)
https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io   opensource, docker image but I think there are limits of what you can do with selfhosted option.  Noticed this https://torvald.no/web-change-detection when looking for the link.
https://github.com/huginn/huginn a hackable IFTTT  docker
https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma  https://uptime.kuma.pet/   Opensource, there is a dem that has some site query information.


-sphere (February 21, 2024, 08:28 AM)
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* Huginn - Not easy to use. I have the Docker deployed in a Proxmox environment. Haven't spent all too much time with it, but the examples I saw when glancing over those, they looked involved.
* UpTime Kuma - Run that also in the same Docker setup. This is not really useful for tracking content. It is great in hooking up any kind of service you run inside your network to let it check if it is up or not. You can then use webhooks to get informed by UpTime-Kuma via its interface, mail, Teams/Slack/Discord, Telegram and so many other (web-)services. In that guise, UpTime-Kuma is excellent. But for tracking changes in web-based content, not so much.

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