StatusPulse — SaaS Status & Docs Change Watcher

Watch SaaS status pages, docs changelogs, and ToS / legal pages for real content changes. Hash, diff, and get structured change events — pay only per check and per detected change.

Brand: StatusPulse (Apify Actor slug statuspulse).

Not for pricing pages. If you need SaaS pricing-page monitoring, use ChangePulse: https://apify.com/zombiekiller69/changepulse

Schedule a list of public status / docs / legal URLs. StatusPulse normalizes HTML (optional CSS selector), stores a SHA-256 hash across runs, and emits a dataset row when content actually moves. Built for incident awareness, docs drift, and ToS change ops — not pricing intel.

Why this (not DIY ChatGPT)

One-shot summarizers do not give you storage, schedules, hash history, or marketplace PPE metering. StatusPulse is ops infrastructure: fetch → hash → compare → event.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.00005	Every run
URL check	$0.002	Each successful fetch+hash
Change detected	$0.05	Hash differs from previous run

Cost example: 20 status/docs/ToS pages × daily × 30 days ≈ 600 checks → ~$1.20, plus $0.05 only when a page actually moves.

Input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.githubstatus.com/",
    "https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/overview",
    "https://vercel.com/legal/terms"
  ],
  "contentSelector": "main",
  "compareWithPrevious": true
}

Tips:

• Prefill with status pages, docs changelogs, or public ToS — not /pricing URLs (those belong on ChangePulse).
• Set contentSelector (e.g. main) to cut nav/footer noise.
• Pass a persistent state store when running under limited permissions so hashes survive across runs.
• Schedule daily or hourly in Apify Tasks; alert only on changed: true.

Output fields

url, hash, previousHash, changed, changeType, diffSnippet, snippetAfter, httpStatus, checkedAt, runId

Ideal schedules

• Daily Apify Task on 5–20 status / docs / ToS URLs
• Webhook / dataset → Slack or MCP agent only when changed is true
• Baseline first run (no change), then alert on diffs

Limitations

Public HTML only. JS-heavy SPAs that return empty shells may need a browser Actor later. Prefer tight CSS selectors.

Sibling product

Need	Actor
Status / incident / docs changelog / ToS	StatusPulse (this Actor)
SaaS pricing pages	ChangePulse

Categories / SEO keywords

SaaS status page monitor, incident banner watcher, docs changelog tracker, terms of service change detection, URL change detection, content hash diff, ToS monitor, status page tracker