**_Detect website content changes and perform meaningful actions - trigger notifications via Discord, Email, Slack, Telegram, API calls and many more._**
[<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/master/docs/screenshot.png" style="max-width:100%;" alt="Self-hosted web site page change monitoring" title="Self-hosted web site page change monitoring" />](https://changedetection.io?src=github)
[**Get started with website page change monitoring straight away. Don't have time? Try our $8.99/month subscription, use our proxies and support!**](https://changedetection.io) , _half the price of other website change monitoring services!_
### Target specific parts of the webpage using the Visual Selector tool.
Available when connected to a <ahref="https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Playwright-content-fetcher">playwright content fetcher</a> (included as part of our subscription service)
[<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/master/docs/visualselector-anim.gif" style="max-width:100%;" alt="Select parts and elements of a web page to monitor for changes" title="Select parts and elements of a web page to monitor for changes" />](https://changedetection.io?src=github)
Fill in text boxes, click buttons and more, setup your changedetection scenario.
Using the **Browser Steps** configuration, add basic steps before performing change detection, such as logging into websites, adding a product to a cart, accept cookie logins, entering dates and refining searches.
We [recommend and use Bright Data](https://brightdata.grsm.io/n0r16zf7eivq) global proxy services, Bright Data will match any first deposit up to $100 using our signup link.
[Oxylabs](https://oxylabs.go2cloud.org/SH2d) is also an excellent proxy provider and well worth using, they offer Residental, ISP, Rotating and many other proxy types to suit your project.
XPath(1.0), JSONPath, jq, and CSS support comes baked in! You can be as specific as you need, use XPath exported from various XPath element query creation tools.
ChangeDetection.io supports a massive amount of notifications (including email, office365, custom APIs, etc) when a web-page has a change detected thanks to the <ahref="https://github.com/caronc/apprise">apprise</a> library.
Simply set one or more notification URL's in the _[edit]_ tab of that watch.
Now you can also customise your notification content and use <atarget="_new"href="https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/templates/">Jinja2 templating</a> for their title and body!
For more complex parsing, filtering, and modifying of JSON data, jq is recommended due to the built-in operators and functions. Refer to the [documentation](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/) for more specific information on jq.
One big advantage of `jq` is that you can use logic in your JSON filter, such as filters to only show items that have a value greater than/less than etc.
When you enable a `json:` or `jq:` filter, you can even automatically extract and parse embedded JSON inside a HTML page! Amazingly handy for sites that build content based on JSON, such as many e-commerce websites.
See the wiki https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Proxy-configuration , we also support using [Bright Data proxy services where possible](https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Proxy-configuration#brightdata-proxy-support) and [Oxylabs](https://oxylabs.go2cloud.org/SH2d) proxy services.
Raspberry Pi and linux/arm/v6 linux/arm/v7 arm64 devices are supported! See the wiki for [details](https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Fetching-pages-with-WebDriver)
Easily [import your list of websites to watch for changes in Excel .xslx file format](https://changedetection.io/tutorial/how-import-your-website-change-detection-lists-excel), or paste in lists of website URLs as plaintext.
Excel import is recommended - that way you can better organise tags/groups of websites and other features.
Do you use changedetection.io to make money? does it save you time or money? Does it make your life easier? less stressful? Remember, we write this software when we should be doing actual paid work, we have to buy food and pay rent just like you.
Firstly, consider taking out an officially supported [website change detection subscription](https://changedetection.io?src=github) , even if you don't use it, you still get the warm fuzzy feeling of helping out the project. (And who knows, you might just use it!)
Or directly donate an amount PayPal [](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7CP6HR9ZCNDYJ)
I offer commercial support, this software is depended on by network security, aerospace , data-science and data-journalist professionals just to name a few, please reach out at dgtlmoon@gmail.com for any enquiries, I am more than glad to work with your organisation to further the possibilities of what can be done with changedetection.io
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