Website Change Monitor — Page Diffs, Alerts & Webhooks
Pricing
from $1.20 / 1,000 change detecteds
Watch any list of web pages on a schedule. Every run returns one row per page and, when a page changed, a row with the added and removed lines, a similarity score and your keyword hits. Title, links and status too. Optional webhook. No browser, no API key, no per-site setup.
You can access the Website Change Monitor — Page Diffs, Alerts & Webhooks programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "urls": [12 "https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/index.html",13 "https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases.htm",14 "https://news.ycombinator.com/",15 "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-treasury"16 ],17 "mode": "monitor",18 "firstRunBehavior": "baseline-only",19 "watch": [20 "text",21 "title"22 ],23 "ignore": [],24 "keywords": [],25 "minChangePercent": 0,26 "includeText": false,27 "maxTextChars": 20000,28 "webhookUrl": "",29 "maxUrls": 100,30 "stateStoreName": "website-change-monitor-state",31 "maxConcurrency": 5,32 "maxRunSecs": 240,33 "proxyConfiguration": {34 "useApifyProxy": true35 }36};37
38// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish39const run = await client.actor("insight.solutions/website-change-monitor").call(input);40
41// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)42console.log('Results from dataset');43console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);44const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();45items.forEach((item) => {46 console.dir(item);47});48
49// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Website Change Monitor — Page Diffs, Alerts & Webhooks API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: