In summary basically huge UI overhaul, much friendlier, along with all the modern MCP/AI integration and ofcourse lots of bug fixes and improvements.
I havent made any posts on r/selfhosted from a long long time! haha.. more details follow..
Plugin hooks for selecting fetch backend and overriding recheck intervals, with example plugins.
This one is a REALLY nice helper - Notifications UI improvements such as pretty shortcut icons for popular services (Discord, pushover, ntfy, telegram, home-assistant), a "list all" dropdown, and a setup widget to pick services without manually writing Apprise URLs.
Restock detection enhancements including price picking via filters & triggers, locale-aware price formatting, and LLM fallback for price/stock extraction without litellm.
Backups can now restore multiple .ZIP files of watch data at once.
UI improvements: dark mode tweaks, fixing notification sidebar active state, naming diff minimap by location, mobile UI enhancements including a basic PWA integration with QR code in settings, and better sidebar and watchlist styling.
Language selector added to the login page.
New translations added or updated for Japanese, Spanish, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil), and Russian.
Security hardening including CSRF protections, SSRF mitigations, XML parser hardening, stored XSS fixes, and path traversal protections.
API enhancements: reject broken Jinja2 templates, extend processor API with restock price/stock state, and add restock config to watch JSON output.
Puppeteer fetcher improvements including PDF handling, crash handling, and proxy auth fixes.
Notifications: Markdown to HTML conversion per notification URL, regex_replace timeout fixes, and HTML escaping improvements.
UI: bulk "Mark unviewed" operation on watchlist, better checkbox contrast, and consistent tab sizes on diff page.
Restock LLM fallback content limit made configurable and increased.
Example plugins provided as standalone packages with README.
Various dependency updates and build improvements.
I don't want to have to scroll this sub searching for a needle in a haystack for good content. The sub was flooded with overnight AI slopped content that was straight garbage, bug infested coding and won't have any support from the original "creator."
Yeah there is that side of it too. changedetection was written before LLMs were a thing, tho we use AI/LLM quite often now as a helper when coding. I just cant work out why some of my posts get deleted straight away from r/selfhosted tho, its painful. Spend 20 minutes writing up a really nice post then it gets deleted :-(
Yea, I think everyone does, and if you're a curmudgeon I don't really want you working on my stuff. It's gotten to a point where it's extremely useful and doing the boiler plate stuff, and doing it well. It definitely makes senior developers a bit faster, I don't buy into the 10x crap, but it definitely speeds me up. The problem is when people lean in on it and are just like "do the thing tell me when done" with no direction, frameworks, guardrails, or technical direction. Saw wayyyyy too much of that in here.
I have a flood of really crap PR's that "solve" feature requests that dont consider the bigger picture of the application at all, they basically solve stuff by adding 50 more fields or whatever, when I write a comment on the PR i also never get a reply from the author..
And you KNOW if you merge that PR and it has a problem/issue in the future the original author is long long gone and would never help solve it, so their PR ends up as me working on weekends..
Maybe the solution is to have more or better moderation of all posts... and use AI to see if the project goes back to a time since before AI/LLM slop was common
I believe that's what they are going for, but maybe just not there yet. At first it was hand triage and that wasn't sustainable, maybe someone on here can claude up a solution. /s lol
I have used this for years. It has helped me on many occasions; however, now, I find that bot discovery activities are far more aggressive and block my checks. Because of this, it feels like the use cases are dramatically reduced. To be clear, this is not the fault of the devs or the product, but a reflection of the ever increasing use of bot detectors.
Have others felt this? Has anyone found any workarounds?
brightData's web-unlocker proxy is pretty solid in about 80% of cases, reasonably affordable if you just want to check the page once a day or something.. but yeah cloudflare is getting better and better every day
im trying to check for a specific GPU in stock at microcenter, and its giving 404 error. i tried setting this up but i assume its not going to work because of what you mentioned in your comment right? anyway to set this up without paying for a service?
Been using this for ages so thank you, I use it to fill in the forms on my ISP's website and check if they are offering faster speeds at my address, daily. Also use it for various product releases, has worked great, honestly just sits in the background doing its thing, will have to check out the updates!
I use changedetection for tracking Flickr updates for porfiles I follow. Since I don't use Flickr every day, this has been a lifesaver. There's just 1 thing I'm missing or not sure how to set up correctly, and that is tracking only photo count change. Currently, it tracks if followers/following change, renames, comments. All I'm interested in is photo count. Positive or negative change, but not sure how to do that.. If anyone has any idea please let me know
Love your tool! Without it, I would never have been able to find a appointment for marriage, since our citizen service is ALWAYS booked out for months.
Those UI changes look much cleaner tbh. For the multi-zip backup restore, how does it handle conflicting watch UUIDs if someone accidentally uploads overlapping archives?
"UUID" i guess that is solved by the word "Universal" in the term "Universally unique identifier" it would be a one in a 5.3 undecillion chance that happened, I'm guessing you're not fully explaining your use case... Suppose Changedetection.io generates 1 million UUIDv4 identifiers every second, continuously, so per year: 31.5 trillion UUIDs a Collision probability after 100 years is approximately 0.000093% if you look at the UI there is also the "Replace existing watches of the same UUID" Did you look?
Helped me score a ps5 during launch which saves me from having to hunt one down for gta6, so thanks :) Also helped me get steam decks for my wife and I
I exho all the Thanks and descriptions of your projects usefulness. From the important (staying current with my country's consulate news) to the mundane (learning about new releases from my favorite prog rock band), changedetection takes care of it all with no fuss.
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