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changedetection.io - Your Reddit inspired website content monitoring tool releases 0.45.8 (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by dgtlmoon123@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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Hi all :) It's a been a while and I've been super busy, but here's another super nice release (thanks for the feedback!), 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

Website content monitoring and notification 'overview' list of websites being watched

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[–] rursache@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

one of the best open source projects out there. check it out if you didn’t yet!

[–] NeoID@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Couldn't agree more with you. This is one of THE MOST important software to selfhost. Use it daily and would be impossible to keep track without it. It's just so well done without anything to "complain" about. All important features are there and it just works. :)

[–] mini_man_123@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Can you give me an example of sites you track? I can think of a couple but not many.

[–] CactusBoyScout@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One example I remember... getting an appointment for Global Entry.

If you're not American, you might not know what that is... but it's an expedited airport/immigration program in the US and getting an appointment often takes months.

You can use tools like this to monitor the appointments page for cancellations. I didn't use this specific tool but I used something similar when I signed up for GE and was able to get an appointment 2 weeks after I applied.

[–] dgtlmoon123@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Please give us a vote/rating https://alternativeto.net/software/changedetection-io/ it sounds like this software changed your life :)

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