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Re: Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

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Post by briaoeuidhtns »

vkuprin wrote: post #64
msp26 wrote: post #63

I got claude to reverse engineer the extension and compare to changedetection and here's what it came up with. Apologies for clanker slop but I think its in poor taste to not attribute the opensource tool that the service is built on (one that's also funded by their SaaS plan) --- Summary: What Is Objectively Provable - The extension stores its config under the key changedetection_config - 16 API endpoints in the ext…

Fair point, and I should have been upfront about this earlier. The backend is a fork of changedetection.io. I've built on top of it — added the browser extension workflow, element picker, billing, auth, notifications, and other things — but the core detection engine comes from their project. That should have been clearly attributed from the start, and I'll add it to the docs and about page. changedetection.io is a ge…

have you adhered to the license? https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/blob/master/C... . if so, where can I get a copy of the source?

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

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Post by vkuprin »

briaoeuidhtns wrote: post #81
vkuprin wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair point, and I should have been upfront about this earlier. The backend is a fork of changedetection.io. I've built on top of it — added the browser extension workflow, element picker, billing, auth, notifications, and other things — but the core detection engine comes from their project. That should have been clearly attributed from the start, and I'll add it to the docs and about page. changedetection.io is a ge…

have you adhered to the license? https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/blob/master/C... . if so, where can I get a copy of the source?

Yes — the project is Apache 2.0 licensed (https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/tree/master?t...), which permits forking and commercial use. There's also a COMMERCIAL_LICENCE.md in the repo for hosting/resale cases, and I've reached out to the maintainer directly about it. Attribution is here: https://docs.sitespy.app/docs/acknowledgements

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

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Post by dannyfritz07 »

bharrison wrote: post #50

Calls to mind a long forgotten, and perhaps one of the most useful bash scripts I've written which addressed this issue in a very rudimentary way; Curl a url, hash the result to file, compare the current hash to the saved hash from the previous run and generate an email on diff. My goal was to monitor the online release of tickets for the 2009 Scion Rock fest (luckily no js, or even Adobe Flash[!] in use), and it wor…

How do you generate a meaningful diff from a saved hash?

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

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Post by dannyfritz07 »

vkuprin wrote: post #69
Kotlopou wrote: post #66

I use RSS to get updates from a ll the stuff I read online at once, and thought this would be nice for those websites that don't already have an RSS feed, but... Perhaps I'm stupid, but I can't actually find the RSS output? And searching for RSS on https://docs.sitespy.app/docs returns no hits.

Not stupid at all — the docs were missing an RSS page, which is on me. I've just added one: https://docs.sitespy.app/docs/dashboard/rss . RSS feeds are available per watch, per tag, or across all watches from the dashboard. Thanks for flagging it, this is exactly the kind of feedback that helps

What does an RSS URL look like from a chrome extension?

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

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Post by bowmessage »

dannyfritz07 wrote: post #83
bharrison wrote: post #50

Calls to mind a long forgotten, and perhaps one of the most useful bash scripts I've written which addressed this issue in a very rudimentary way; Curl a url, hash the result to file, compare the current hash to the saved hash from the previous run and generate an email on diff. My goal was to monitor the online release of tickets for the 2009 Scion Rock fest (luckily no js, or even Adobe Flash[!] in use), and it wor…

How do you generate a meaningful diff from a saved hash?

No need. Just hurry up, sign on, and buy tickets.
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