changedetection.io/README-pip.md

changedetection.io

Self-hosted open source change monitoring of web pages.

Know when web pages change! Stay ontop of new information!

Live your data-life pro-actively instead of re-actively, do not rely on manipulative social media for consuming important information.

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Example use cases

Know when ...

• Government department updates (changes are often only on their websites)
• Local government news (changes are often only on their websites)
• New software releases, security advisories when you're not on their mailing list.
• Festivals with changes
• Realestate listing changes
• COVID related news from government websites
• Detect and monitor changes in JSON API responses
• API monitoring and alerting

Get monitoring now!

$ pip3 install changedetection.io   

Specify a target for the datastore path with -d (required) and a listening port with -p (defaults to 5000)

$ changedetection.io -d /path/to/empty/data/dir -p 5000

Then visit http://127.0.0.1:5000 , You should now be able to access the UI.

Features

• Website monitoring
• Change detection of content and analyses
• Filters on change (Select by CSS or JSON)
• Triggers (Wait for text, wait for regex)
• Notification support
• JSON API Monitoring
• Parse JSON embedded in HTML
• (Reverse) Proxy support
• Javascript support via WebDriver
• RaspberriPi (arm v6/v7/64 support)

See https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io for more information.