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Website Change Detector & Diff API

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$0.01 / page comparison

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Website Change Detector & Diff API

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.