google-webfonts-helper VS changedetection.io

google webfonts helper - https://gwfh.mranftl.com

According to the Cloudflare December monthly stats, I had roughly 57k unique users, 15m requests, 1,3TB traffic. Though, most requests are likely to be bots/integrators spamming the API...

Running on a bare metal k8s cluster (libvirt) on top of a single dedicated Hetzner server, ~70€/month. Not going to monetize it, but will maybe accept donations/sponsorings in the future...

However I felt like this solution is quite opionated, and therefore I'd like to promote a different non-opionated solution (if anyone haven't heard of it yet) to get any font plus minimalistic styles: https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper

Just moved off https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper today from their free tier to my own private infra and replaced current the Heroku dyno with a 301: https://github.com/kenmickles/heroku-redirect

AFAIK sadly Heroku does not provide some other _free_ permanent redirect option for *.herokuapp.com apps without actually running a dyno there.

As an alternative there is the google-webfonts-helper. It can be used online and regardless of the operating system.

As you can see, the font loading with Google Fonts can be complicated. However, you can reduce how many requests are needed to just one by self-hosting the font and putting the @font-face declaration inside your CSS bundle instead of an external stylesheet. A tool like Google Webfonts Helper can be helpful for this.

I only know google-webfonts-helper, but it's more of an assistance tool that provides the fonts and code to host the fonts yourself (download) - which I always prefer.

Its open source, maybe you can achieve what you want with it.

I use ChangeDetection,

- https://changedetection.io/#features

- https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

changedetection.io just donated to the awesome crew over at ntfy.sh

I used a business to business website that lists every single company in this industry by location and has a link for each to generate a list of companys and URLS. I monitor this for changes with changedetection.io

0.45.8 is out! Support for xPath2.0/3.0 means you can use logic in your selectors (for example, give the count of the number of divs that contain certain text, and much more). UI improvements, Selectable browser (plug it into Bright Data's scraping browser!) and more, check it out! Much ❤ from the changedetection team. https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io / changedetection.io

Then uncomment some of the lines as per this instruction - https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Playwright-content-fetcher

The wiki is pretty easy to follow. The instructions here are the ones I followed. Simply uncommented the lines mentioned.

You can use an open-source tool like this one: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

Check out more details here: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

This looks cool, but I personally rely on changedetection.io for this. It can scrape/visit virtually any site and is very powerful. It is also easily installed via Docker, and I am running it now.