Some changes werent getting triggered because the previous checksum only recorded when an event occured

changedetectionio/fetch_site_status.py

@@ -224,11 +224,7 @@ class perform_site_check():
         else:
             fetched_md5 = hashlib.md5(stripped_text_from_html).hexdigest()
 
-        # On the first run of a site, watch['previous_md5'] will be None, set it the current one.
-        if not watch.get('previous_md5'):
-            watch['previous_md5'] = fetched_md5
-            update_obj["previous_md5"] = fetched_md5
-
+        ############ Blocking rules, after checksum #################
         blocked_by_not_found_trigger_text = False
 
         if len(watch['trigger_text']):
@@ -245,7 +241,7 @@ class perform_site_check():
 
         if not blocked_by_not_found_trigger_text and watch['previous_md5'] != fetched_md5:
             changed_detected = True
-            update_obj["previous_md5"] = fetched_md5
+
             update_obj["last_changed"] = timestamp
 
         # Extract title as title
@@ -254,4 +250,12 @@ class perform_site_check():
                 if not watch['title'] or not len(watch['title']):
                     update_obj['title'] = html_tools.extract_element(find='title', html_content=fetcher.content)
 
+        # Always record the new checksum
+        update_obj["previous_md5"] = fetched_md5
+
+        # On the first run of a site, watch['previous_md5'] will be None, set it the current one.
+        if not watch.get('previous_md5'):
+            watch['previous_md5'] = fetched_md5
+
+
         return changed_detected, update_obj, text_content_before_ignored_filter, fetcher.screenshot, fetcher.xpath_data