If you're not interested in this because it's SaaS, check out BBC's Wraith instead:
Show HN: A new way to diff websites
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Re: Show HN: A new way to diff websites
#12If you're not interested in this because it's SaaS, check out BBC's Wraith instead: http://responsivenews.co.uk/post/56884056177/wraith
Wraith is a cool open source project that we played around with a bunch before starting Diffd. This is roughly what the same diff of Stripe as shown in our demo will look like with Wraith: http://www.diffd.com/imagemagick_compare.png
Re: Show HN: A new way to diff websites
#13If you're not interested in this because it's SaaS, check out BBC's Wraith instead: http://responsivenews.co.uk/post/56884056177/wraith
If you're not interested in Wraith because you want something that non-programmers can use, you can check out Scylla:
(disclaimer: I wrote it)
Re: Show HN: A new way to diff websites
#14Nice, I've written a few scripts to do things like this such as creating heat maps of areas of change between two sites and giving you the percentage of difference for CI builds etc... Do you have any plans to open source this? That's the big factor for a lot of organisations decisions as to whether they'll make use of software or not. For example we have a policy that we won't rely on any proprietary software within…
We have been considering going down that route and releasing Diffd as an open source project while offering a hosted version that is the easiest way to do things in parallel and across multiple browsers and operating systems. However, we expect that initially most will add Diffd as a manual step at the end of their pipeline. So, it's not like their ability to push code is completely dependent on a third party, it's j…
We don't depend on a third party for our CI though? We use Gitlab-CI to build all our code / Docker images and run our tests which not only works very well but is also extremely fast.
Re: Show HN: A new way to diff websites
#15Looks cool. I wanted to build a service that would monitor an external web page for me and notify me about content changes. The problem was that it was constantly detecting changes with ads or menus or stuff not related to the content itself (which is what I was interested in). Didn't have time to get it going any further. One use case for me was to monitor the Washington State traffic laws (or all RCWs if needed) an…
I personally use the Page Monitor chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-monitor/pemhg...
It also has Selector functionality (in addition to full-page monitoring), which let's you explicitly choose which elements on the page to monitor for changes.