changedetection.io/README.md

#  changedetection.io

## Self-hosted change monitoring of web pages.

_Why?_ Many years ago I had used a couple of web site change detection/monitoring services, 
but they got bought up by larger media companies, after this, whenI logged in they
wanted _even more_ private data about me.

All I simply wanted todo was to know which pages were changing and when (and maybe see
some basic information about what those changes were)

![Alt text](screenshot.png?raw=true "Screenshot")

Get going...

```
$ git clone https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io.git
$ cd changedetection.io
$ docker-compose up -d
```  

Now visit http://127.0.0.1:5000 , The interface will now expose the UI, you can change this in the `docker-compose.yml`

### Future plans

- Greater configuration of check interval times, page request headers.
- General options for timeout, default headers
- On change detection, callout to another API (handy for notices/issue trackers)
- Explore the differences that were detected.
- Use a graphic/rendered page difference instead of text (see the experimental `selenium-screenshot-diff` branch)