changd vs urlwatch

changd

Changd is a open source web monitoring application for monitoring visual site changes using screenshots, XPath's or API's. (by paschmann)

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urlwatch

Watch (parts of) webpages and get notified when something changes via e-mail, on your phone or via other means. Highly configurable. (by thp)

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changd		urlwatch
	Project
2	Mentions	9
147	Stars	2,774
-	Growth	-
5.1	Activity	7.3
5 months ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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changd

Posts with mentions or reviews of changd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-30.

Automatized scraping - help out a newbie
3 projects | /r/OSINT | 30 Jan 2023

Self-hosted/open source stuff also available: - https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io - https://github.com/paschmann/changd
changedetection.io alternatives?
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Oct 2022

urlwatch

Posts with mentions or reviews of urlwatch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-05.

Ask HN: If a website has no RSS, how do you keep of any updates?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023

I have been using urlwatch for diffing various sites with no RSS:
https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/
It even has various filters, for eg you can convert to plain text and diff that.
changedetection.io alternatives?
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Oct 2022

Check out urlwatch
Got tired of grad cafe alerts not working so I automated it lol
1 project | /r/gradadmissions | 21 Feb 2022

in case any of my fellow CS future grads are interested: https://github.com/thp/urlwatch
Show HN: Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2022
Looking for a tool that lets me monitor website changes
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Oct 2021

I use URLWatch, it works well: https://github.com/thp/urlwatch
Best service to monitor website changes and send pushover alert?
2 projects | /r/pushover | 12 May 2021

I use urlwatch which is a command line tool (not for the faint of heart), but provides quite a bit of customization.
4 External Tools to Help Stabilize Your Web Crawling
1 project | dev.to | 19 Apr 2021

It is a good idea to keep track of HTML changes, especially certain portions of the webpage we are scraping. We use a tool internally at Proxies API called urlWatch https://github.com/thp/urlwatch
Looking for a website changes monitor plus notifications.
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Apr 2021
Selfhosted Page Monitor Like Distillvisualping On
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 6 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing changd and urlwatch you can also consider the following projects:

changedetection.io - The best and simplest free open source web page change detection, website watcher, restock monitor and notification service. Restock Monitor, change detection. Designed for simplicity - Simply monitor which websites had a text change for free. Free Open source web page change detection, Website defacement monitoring, Price change notification

simplemonitor - A Python-based network and host monitor

klaxon - Klaxon enables reporters and editors to monitor scores of sites on the web for newsworthy changes.

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n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.

python-mss - An ultra fast cross-platform multiple screenshots module in pure Python using ctypes.

HungryHippo - 🦛 scrapes websites and generates rss feeds

Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

webgrep - Grep Web pages with extra features like JS deobfuscation and OCR

uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Huginn - Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!