[nicbou]

Buddy I love you!

I have wanted this for so long! My job relies on following many German laws, bureaucracy pages and the like.

In the long run I want specific changes on external pages to trigger pull requests in my code (e.g. to update a tax threshold). This requires building blocks that don't exist, and that I can't find time to code and maintain myself.

I currently use Wachete, but since over a year, it triggers rate limits on a specific website and I just can't monitor German laws anymore. No tools seem to have a debounce feature, even though I only need to check for updates once per month.

[vkuprin]

German laws and bureaucracy pages are exactly the kind of thing where tracking one specific part of a page is much more useful than watching the whole page. And yeah, more control over check frequency makes a lot of sense if monthly checks are enough and rate limits are the main problem. I’d be curious what kind of schedule would work best for you there?

[nicbou]

Monthly is fine, but not monthly all at once, because I watch multiple pages on one website, and that triggers the rate limiting.

The ideal pipeline for me would be "notice a change in a specific part of a page, use a very small LLM to extract a value or answer a question, update a constant in a file and make a pull request".

I've been thinking about this pipeline for a long time because my work depends on it, but nothing like it seems to exist yet. I'll probably write my own, but I just can't find the time.

[vkuprin]

You can already work around the rate-limit issue today — there's a global minimum recheck interval in Settings that spreads checks out across time. Not per-site throttling yet, but it prevents one domain from getting hit too many times at once.

The pipeline you described — detect a change, extract a value with a small LLM, open a PR — is pretty much exactly what the MCP server is designed for. Connect Site Spy to Claude or Cursor, and when a specific part of a page changes, the agent can handle the extraction and PR automatically. I don't think anyone has wired up that exact flow yet, but all the pieces exist.