Change Detection
Price drops, restocks, job postings, government announcements, competitor edits -
changedetection.io watches web pages and alerts you the moment anything changes, down to PDF
text and checksums. Point it at a URL, set a check interval, and precise filters decide what
counts as a change: a Visual Selector targets page elements by pointing and clicking, CSS
selectors and XPath narrow scope, trigger-text and ignore-text rules (with regex support) cut
noise, and JSONPath or jq handles API responses. A dedicated re-stock and price detection mode
extracts product metadata and fires on thresholds - alert only when the price drops below your
target or the percentage change exceeds a limit. JavaScript-heavy sites render through a real
Chrome browser via Playwright, with the ability to execute JS steps first (log in, click,
scroll) before extracting text. Notifications reach 85+ services through Apprise - Discord,
Slack, Telegram, email, webhooks - optionally with a screenshot of the changed page, and
AI-powered summaries (any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including local Ollama) describe what
changed. Per-watch proxies, custom headers, and POST/GET control cover hostile targets.
Apache-2.0 licensed with local file-based storage: the URLs you monitor and why stay entirely
your business.
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