website change monitoring script

arpanjot

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

pbgben

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

Bochi

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

• https://www.import.io/
• https://www.parsehub.com/
• https://www.diffbot.com/

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.

arpanjot

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

• https://www.import.io/
• https://www.parsehub.com/
• https://www.diffbot.com/

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?