[nicbou]

I monitor about a hundred pages for changes in German law. This helps me keep my content up to date.

I am writing a page change monitor similar to urlwatch, but greatly simplified. Give it a URL and a CSS selector, get a weekly email diff of the changes. It will replace Wachete, for which I was paying 10€ a month.

This is worth it for me. I save 120€ per year (5x more if I want to watch more than 100 pages), the watched URLs come from source-controlled text files, and I can configure the delivery schedule of notification emails. It suits my workflow a lot better.

It can also tie into my static site generator. The list of legal texts to watch can be extracted from my website’s content, so that everything I mention is automatically watched.

All of that from a fairly short Python script.