Policy Change Monitor

Catch policy, privacy, and terms changes before they surprise you.

Why it matters

Legal and policy pages change quietly, but the impact is real: compliance, procurement, vendor risk, and product trust all get hit when teams notice too late. This Actor turns those pages into clear change alerts.

What it does

• monitors one or more public policy URLs
• extracts readable page text
• stores the last snapshot for comparison
• highlights clause-level and line-level changes
• sends optional webhook alerts when a page changes

Best for

• compliance teams
• procurement / vendor management
• legal ops
• SaaS dependency tracking

Why it wins

• focuses on what changed, not just that something changed
• clause-level diffs for policy / privacy / ToS pages
• short output that is easy to scan or forward
• webhook-friendly for Slack, Discord, or internal tooling

Input

• urls — required list of policy/privacy/ToS URLs
• monitorMode — keep snapshots and compare against the next run
• dryRun — skip state writes and webhooks
• webhookUrl — optional alert destination
• webhookFormat — generic, slack, or discord
• maxItemsPerPage — cap the diff output
• userAgent — custom fetch user agent

Output

Each dataset item contains:

• URL
• page title
• baseline / changed flags
• change score
• current and previous hashes
• added / removed lines
• short preview

The Actor output includes:

• processed count
• changed count
• baseline count
• all result records

MVP scope

This Actor is intentionally narrow:

• no browser login flows
• no legal interpretation engine
• no dashboard UI
• no workflow engine
• no broad website monitoring platform

Example use cases

• watch a vendor privacy policy for changes
• track terms changes on a SaaS dependency
• monitor cookie policy updates for compliance review
• alert a procurement team when supplier terms change

Why this actor exists

Raw page-change alerts are noisy. The useful product is the short interpreted diff that tells a team what actually changed and whether they should care.

Pricing

• current live price: $0.01 per monitored page snapshot
• next pricing change allowed: 2026-08-04
• target price: $0.49 per monitored page snapshot
• billing model: pay per event via default dataset items
• primary event: Monitored page
• rationale: pay for the useful unit, not for raw crawling alone

Competition

• generic website-change monitors
• competitor-tracking tools
• broader page diff scrapers

Publish status

• public on Apify
• verified with a real remote run
• pricing configured in the Console