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website change monitoring script

Looking for a self hosted script which monitors a website for changes. I have used free tier of services like visualping but their free tier has lots of limitations. I am looking for 10 min checks on a particular page

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  • pbgbenpbgben Member, Host Rep

    Use script to download to body of a website, then make a hash/checksum of that data. Do this periodically and compare the checksums to identify changes.

    Dyamic websites might have a high number of difference because of cdn and advertising though

  • Do you also want to save the changes, you could make use of services like:

    They are not self-hosted though.
    For this I would just use short Python script and Beatiful Soup, should be an easy task implemented in a few minutes.

  • @Bochi said:
    Do you also want to save the changes, you could make use of services like:

    They are not self-hosted though.
    For this I would just use short Python script and Beatiful Soup, should be an easy task implemented in a few minutes.

    Thanks for the feedback.I am not really good at python.Can you help me with this?

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