Pricing

$3.00/month + usage

Text Diff Checker

Compare two texts and highlight differences. Shows additions, deletions, and changes. Multiple output formats: unified, side-by-side, HTML.

Pricing

$3.00/month + usage

Rating

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Developer

Web Harvester

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Monthly active users

4 months ago

Last modified

🎯 What This Actor Does

Compare texts and find differences:

Unified Diff - Git-style diff output
Side by Side - Compare lines directly
HTML Output - Visual diff with colors
Statistics - Additions, deletions, similarity %
Options - Ignore case, whitespace

🚀 Use Cases

Use Case	Description
Code Review	Compare code versions
Document Versioning	Track document changes
Content Audit	Find text modifications
Plagiarism Check	Compare similarity
Translation QA	Compare translations
Data Validation	Verify data changes

📥 Input Examples

Basic Comparison

{
    "text1": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.",
    "text2": "The quick brown cat jumps over the lazy dog!",
    "outputFormat": "unified"
}

HTML Output

{
    "text1": "Hello World\nThis is line 2",
    "text2": "Hello Universe\nThis is line 2\nNew line 3",
    "outputFormat": "html"
}

Ignore Case/Whitespace

{
    "text1": "Hello   World",
    "text2": "hello world",
    "ignoreCase": true,
    "ignoreWhitespace": true
}

⚙️ Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`text1`	string	-	Original/old text
`text2`	string	-	Modified/new text
`outputFormat`	string	`unified`	unified, side_by_side, html, json
`contextLines`	integer	`3`	Lines around changes
`ignoreCase`	boolean	`false`	Ignore uppercase/lowercase
`ignoreWhitespace`	boolean	`false`	Ignore space differences

📤 Output

{
    "format": "unified",
    "additions": 1,
    "deletions": 1,
    "changes": 0,
    "similarity": 85.71,
    "totalLines1": 3,
    "totalLines2": 4,
    "diff": "--- original\n+++ modified\n@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@..."
}

📊 Output Formats

Format	Best For	Output
`unified`	Developers	Git-style diff text
`side_by_side`	Visual comparison	Array of line pairs
`html`	Reports	Styled HTML page
`json`	Automation	Word-level diff array

💰 Cost Estimation

Text Size	Approx. Time	Compute Units
1 KB	~1 second	~0.001
100 KB	~2 seconds	~0.003
1 MB	~5 seconds	~0.01

🔧 Technical Details

Language: Python 3.12
Library: difflib (built-in)
Memory: 128MB-256MB
Algorithm: SequenceMatcher (Ratcliff/Obershelp)

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

🏪 Apify Store Listing

Keywords: text diff, compare texts, diff checker, text comparison, unified diff, side by side, similarity, document compare

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