Dataset Change Monitor
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from $1.70 / 1,000 change detected (new, changed or removed item)s
Compare every scraper run with the previous one and get only new, changed and removed items, with field-level before/after diffs. Alerts via Telegram, Slack, webhook or email. Works with any Apify Actor, dataset, JSON or CSV.
You can access the Dataset Change Monitor programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, youβll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "items": [12 {13 "url": "https://shop.example.com/p/1",14 "name": "Blue mug",15 "price": 12.516 },17 {18 "url": "https://shop.example.com/p/2",19 "name": "Red mug",20 "price": 9.921 }22 ],23 "monitorName": "demo-monitor",24 "idFields": [25 "url"26 ],27 "ignoreFields": [28 "scrapedAt",29 "crawledAt",30 "timestamp"31 ]32};33
34// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish35const run = await client.actor("egra_van/dataset-change-monitor").call(input);36
37// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)38console.log('Results from dataset');39console.log(`πΎ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);40const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();41items.forEach((item) => {42 console.dir(item);43});44
45// π Want to learn more π? Go to β https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Dataset Change Monitor API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: