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Re: Show HN: Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds

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There seem to be a lot of these services ("scrape X in order to generate an RSS/webhook/etc. change feed for X"), but I feel that I can't rely on any of them. For anything that I would need this particular service for, my highest-concern requirement is that I'm able able to "set and forget" the service for literal years at a time. But almost always, services like this just drop dead eventually; or they tweak their sc…

Visualping.io works pretty well as a SaaS.

They have an okay free tier (65 checks per month).

https://visualping.io/pricing

I just wish their pricing model was less check-based. I would use it a lot more if I could pay $10–20/month for unlimited checks, but that's not something they offer. Their pricing model scales up really aggressively compared to the underlying resource usage.

Re: Show HN: Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds

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I tried this project recently, but it didn’t seem to handle pages that load content dynamically via XHR. At least the couple pages I tried at the time.

https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Fetching...

Indeed I had it setup using a separate selenium chrome container. Still had the same issue

Re: Show HN: Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds

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There seem to be a lot of these services ("scrape X in order to generate an RSS/webhook/etc. change feed for X"), but I feel that I can't rely on any of them. For anything that I would need this particular service for, my highest-concern requirement is that I'm able able to "set and forget" the service for literal years at a time. But almost always, services like this just drop dead eventually; or they tweak their sc…

It sounds like you value permanence and reliability over feature set. You may want to consider https://www.followthatpage.com/

I have been using it for years, and—judging from it's visual design—it has been around for years longer.

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