Website Change Detector & Diff API
Pricing
$0.01 / page comparison
Website Change Detector & Diff API
Detect page changes and deterministic diffs. Price: $0.01 per successful comparison.
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$0.01 / page comparison
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Deterministic website change detection for AI agents and automated workflows.
Use this Actor when a machine needs to answer did this public web page change? It can capture a baseline, compare a previous SHA-256 hash for a compact changed/unchanged result, or compare previous normalized text for deterministic diff excerpts and change metrics.
Actor: industrial_platform/web-change-intelligence
Price
$0.01 per successful page comparison using the page-comparison pay-per-event billing event.
A failed fetch or failed comparison does not produce the successful comparison event.
Examples:
- 1 comparison: $0.01
- 100 comparisons: $1.00
- 1,000 comparisons: $10.00
Good uses
- website change detector
- price-page monitoring
- stock or availability changes
- documentation changes
- policy or terms changes
- competitor-page monitoring
- compact hash-based change checks
- deterministic text diffs
Input
Baseline:
{"url": "https://example.com/"}
Hash comparison:
{"url": "https://example.com/","previous_hash": "previous-current-hash","include_current_text": false}
Detailed text comparison:
{"url": "https://example.com/","previous_text": "previous normalized text","selector": "main","ignore_selectors": [".clock", ".rotating-banner"]}
Output
Results can include changed, comparison_status, current_hash, normalized text, added/removed excerpts, change ratio, HTTP metadata, title, final URL, and fetch timing.
Comparison behavior
baseline: no previous text/hash was supplied.hash: compact changed/unchanged comparison.text: deterministic text-diff comparison.- Keep selector, ignore selectors, and text-length settings consistent between repeated checks.
Limits and security
- public HTTP/HTTPS only
- private/local/link-local/reserved targets blocked
- redirect targets revalidated
- response size bounded
- request timeout bounded
- static HTTP content only; client-side JavaScript is not executed
MCP
The Actor is available through Apify's hosted MCP server and the Industrial Platform MCP portfolio. Its required input is url.