Website Changes Detector
Pricing
Pay per usage
Website Changes Detector
This actor uses Apify’s Website Content Crawler to track website changes by comparing new and previous crawl results, highlighting only relevant updates to save time and resources.
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Pricing
Pay per usage
0
Total users
3
Monthly users
3
Runs succeeded
83%
Last modified
3 days ago
You can access the Website Changes Detector 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "wccInput": {9 "aggressivePrune": False,10 "clickElementsCssSelector": "[aria-expanded=\"false\"]",11 "clientSideMinChangePercentage": 15,12 "crawlerType": "playwright:adaptive",13 "debugLog": False,14 "debugMode": False,15 "expandIframes": True,16 "ignoreCanonicalUrl": False,17 "keepUrlFragments": False,18 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },19 "readableTextCharThreshold": 100,20 "removeCookieWarnings": True,21 "removeElementsCssSelector": """nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg,22[role=\"alert\"],23[role=\"banner\"],24[role=\"dialog\"],25[role=\"alertdialog\"],26[role=\"region\"][aria-label*=\"skip\" i],27[aria-modal=\"true\"]""",28 "renderingTypeDetectionPercentage": 10,29 "saveFiles": False,30 "saveHtml": False,31 "saveHtmlAsFile": False,32 "saveMarkdown": True,33 "saveScreenshots": False,34 "startUrls": [{35 "url": "https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners",36 "method": "GET",37 }],38 "useSitemaps": False,39 } }40
41# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish42run = client.actor("tri_angle/website-changes-detector").call(run_input=run_input)43
44# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)45print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])46for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():47 print(item)48
49# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
Website Changes Detector API in Python
The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Website Changes Detector API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-client
Other API clients include: