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)

Get monitoring! super simple.

$ mkdir ./datastore
$ docker run -d --restart always -p "127.0.0.1:5000:5000" -v "$(pwd)"/datastore:/datastore dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

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

Or in docker-compose.yml style.

version: "2"
services:

  backend:
    image: dgtlmoon/changedetection.io:latest
    volumes:
      - ./datastore:/datastore
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:5000:5000"
    restart: always

$ mkdir datastore
$ docker-compose up -d

(/datastore is optional, I prefer to have the files on my local disk instead of in a docker volume)

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)

Please ⭐ star ⭐ this project and help it grow! https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/