Data & Research · Web Scraping & Crawling
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Paid tools for this job are being added. The free alternatives below are ready to use.
Free to use. You run it on your own server.
They do this job.
A self-hosted monitor that watches web pages and notifies you when their content changes.
★ 34.9kFreeFRFreshRSS/FreshRSSIt gathers the feeds you follow into one page you control.
★ 16.3kFreeV2miniflux/v2A feed reader you run yourself, built as one small program plus a PostgreSQL database.
★ 9.8kFreeNEsamuelclay/NewsBlurA feed reader that learns which stories are wanted and hides the rest, running since 2009 and self-hostable.
★ 7.6kFreeYAnkanaev/yarrA feed reader that is one small file, runnable as a desktop application or as a small private server.
★ 4.1kFreeYTjmbannon/ytdl-subA YAML subscription layer over yt-dlp — competitors' new uploads arrive nightly with metadata attached.
★ 3kFreeFU0x2E/fusionA small feed reader that one person runs on a machine of their own.
★ 2.2kFreeA second choice: they cover part of this job or are a building block for it.
Turns almost any page into an RSS feed — Reddit searches, YouTube channels, Hacker News — so competitor and keyword monitoring becomes a notification.
★ 46.5kFreeRSrss-bridge/rss-bridgeIt makes an RSS feed for a website that removed its own.
★ 9.3kFreeBRwebrecorder/browsertrix-crawlerSaves a web page in a real browser, so the copy still works later.
★ 1.2kFreeOne job at a time: the paid tools worth paying for, the free ones you can run yourself, and who should pick which.
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