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Re: Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook

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I am trying it out. But I get a 403 error when trying to create my first new monitor. It's a silent error in the background. Had to open the network inspector to see it because it just sits there.

Actually, it was that I had not yet confirmed my email address. Might want to capture those errors and give users an error message.

Re: Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook

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post #8

Love the idea. Totally understand the business use case. Not in love with the pricing. Feels like paying $49/mo is too high for a marketer to try out, but too low for the fact you can run an effective DDoS of some sites with it I'd suggest changing the buckets - up to 10 monitored pages on free, a Silver Tier of maybe $29/mo of up to 100 pages + frequency of as low as hourly, a Gold Tier of maybe $99/mo of up to 1000…

It looks like at most, you can update every 30 minutes. So you aren't going to be doing any DDoS'ing with this.

This is incorrect. You can update up to every minute.

Re: Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook

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post #10

I am trying it out. But I get a 403 error when trying to create my first new monitor. It's a silent error in the background. Had to open the network inspector to see it because it just sits there.

That’s a great point of feedback, thanks for raising it!

I’ll make sure to fix that one on next release.

Re: Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook

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post #13
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like at most, you can update every 30 minutes. So you aren't going to be doing any DDoS'ing with this.

This is incorrect. You can update up to every minute.

A request every minute is a DDOS attack?

Re: Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is incorrect. You can update up to every minute.

A request every minute is a DDOS attack?

I am correcting the parent to my comment, which claimed the frequency is at most every 30 min.

As the creator of the service (which is not proposed as a DDoS service), I can confirm the fastest frequency is every minute.

For on premise deployments, Monitoro supports updating every second.

Using the service to explicitly harm a website is forbidden and the culprits will be banned, free and paid accounts alike.

Re: Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook

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post #15

I don't think your confirmation emails are sending...? Nothing for me yet (I gave it 8 hours just in case) and nothing in my junk box.

I'm unfortunately having trouble with the email provider I'm using. Unsure if it's the volume, but it's a big name and it should be fine.

Really sorry about that. Please write me at omar -at- monitoro.xyz and I'll try to fix that wrong.

Re: Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook

#20

Interesting.. this my be a good addition to our new UX platform https://VisualSitemaps.com thanks for making this.

Hey Artur, thank you as well for your interest in Monitoro! I actually see a great synergy potential in fact.

What would be the best way to get in touch with you? My email is omar -at- monitoro.xyz

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