Track Website Changes

[PatJustPat]

Hi,

looking for a service that can track websites changes. There seem to be several, but I am looking for the best one.

Thoughts?

 

[Alpha1404]

Hi,
only for one website or a lot of pages ?
Your budget ?
One shot or every day ?
What is your OS ?

 

[PatJustPat]

One page.

 

[Alpha1404]

Distill Web Monitor on Chrome and Firefox. Free and simple.
I used it before.
I changed because I have almost 1600 pages to monitor every day : I need log, email, etc.
But for only one page, Distill Web Monitor make the job.

 

[FrenchSocrates]

Have you tried https://visualping.io ?

 

[Kaine]

Why no use source code with that https://text-compare.com/ ?

 

[uncutu]

theres 1 on f-droid that a lot of my peers use

whenever theres several tools and u want the best one.. got to roll up ur sleeves and test em yourself

 

[perocJ]

You can try Versionista.

 

[Guybrushthepirate]

Hi,

looking for a service that can track websites changes. There seem to be several, but I am looking for the best one.

Thoughts?

What do you mean by "changes"? If you want to check layout changes in specific pages, for me the easiest way is to have a scraper based on some HTML elements of the page. If they change the page layout good chance that one of your scraper will stop collecting data. Then you'll know the changed something in their website.

 

[PatJustPat]

What do you mean by "changes"? If you want to check layout changes in specific pages, for me the easiest way is to have a scraper based on some HTML elements of the page. If they change the page layout good chance that one of your scraper will stop collecting data. Then you'll know the changed something in their website.

Sounds complicated. Is there an easy way to create a crawler?

 

[Guybrushthepirate]

Sounds complicated. Is there an easy way to create a crawler?

Not really. You can build something very basic even with Google Spreadsheet. Just Google it, you'll see it si not complicated at all. Also, there are lots of web scrapers (paid services) out there, that can serve for your purpose.