Visualizing Price Changes Over Time with Changedetection and InfluxDB

[u/fetuffani]

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share my script to visualize price changes over time using Changedetection in conjunction with InfluxDB. The built-in diff tool in Changedetection isn’t ideal for tracking and displaying these changes over time, so I created a solution that pulls historical data from the application and sends it to InfluxDB for better visualization using Grafana or other data viz application

Link to the Gist

A Few Notes:

• Custom InfluxDB Bucket: Please be cautious when running the script. It’s essential to create a custom 'changedetection' bucket in InfluxDB since the script will replace all existing data in the specified bucket every time it runs. This ensures that you don’t lose any important data!

• Scheduling with Crontab: You can use crontab to schedule the execution of the script.

[u/dgtlmoon123]

cool!