agentskillexchange changedetection.io Self-Hosted Website Change Monitoring Platform
changedetection.io is an open-source, self-hosted tool for monitoring websites for content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and defacement detection. It supports visual selectors, browser automation via Playwright, and delivers notifications through Discord, Slack, Telegram, email, webhooks, and dozens more channels.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- $ docker compose up -d
- Docker standalone
- $ docker run -d --restart always -p "127.0.0.1:5000:5000" -v datastore-volume:/datastore --name changedetection.io dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
- docker pull dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [![Release Version][release-shield]][release-link] [![Docker Pulls][docker-pulls]][docker-link] ![License][license-shield]
- Requires Playwright to be enabled.
Docker
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
Works with any model you already pay for — GPT-4o-mini and Gemini Flash handle this well at fractions of a cent per check. Or run it entirely locally with Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, or any **OpenAI-compatibl...
After Browser Steps have been run, then visit the Visual Selector tab to refine the content you're interested in.
Example use cases
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/HEAD/README.md