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Hi there,

I was wondering if there is a way to subscribe to a “normal” website to get notified of changes.
My Use Case would be to check some pages for firmware updates / new releases. That don´t happens very frequently and those sites unfortunately don’t offer a feed themself.

Is there a way to get TTRss to subscribe to those and basically everytime the page changes just create a new entry for it?

I searched the forum for plugins or other entries but couldn’t find anything similar. Apologies if I missed it somehow.

Thanks,
Psych

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You can use a site like http://fetchrss.com to track webpages for changes. I use it for a few sites and it works pretty well.

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Hi

I use GitHub - dgtlmoon/changedetection.io: The best and simplest self-hosted free open source website change detection, monitor and notification service. Restock Monitor, change detection. Designed for simplicity - the main goal is to simply monitor which websites had a text change for free. Free Open source web page change detection, Restock Monitoring, Visualping and Apify alternative
Works really well for my purposes and there’s an RSS feed for the changes. The only issue I have is the RSS feed doesn’t include the change, more the alert to say there is a change

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Why not ask if the website will set up an RSS feed? Not everyone wants email, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram for updates

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@redlob That site unfortunately didn’t work for me.
@Oliver_Roe That looks like an interesting alternative. How did you get the RSS feed into TT-RSS? I always an error “Couldn’t download the specified URL: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found” although I can open that URL from my browser no problem. To rule out any DNS issues I also used simple IP Address but get the same.

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actually seems to work as designed. Originally I just a quick test in docker and was too lazy to setup traefik and DNS. So I think I remember that URL’s with a Port are not allowed anymore and that tripped me up.
@fox If a URL in the format “http://somehost:1234/somefeed” is not valid due to restriction in the port. Would it be possible to have the error slightly more explicit? The above error doesn’t help much in this scenario.

After settings things up properly with https and dns everything works as expected.
Thanks all for your ideas!

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this happens before any fetching is done so original url at this point is no longer there. error message could mention actual fetch URL which would be more helpful.

there’s also feed debugger.