Every few hours

Get an email when a web page changes

When the text on a page you watch changes, you get the difference by email instead of checking by hand.

Runs: Every few hours
Apps: Firecrawl
AI: Not needed
Access: API key

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 6 hours, scrape https://example.com/pricing with Firecrawl and, if the content is different from last time, email me what changed.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Some pages matter because they change without warning: a regulator's guidance, a landlord's notice page, a supplier's terms, a job board, a vendor's status page, a university's admissions requirements. Checking them by hand means remembering to visit, reading closely, and comparing against a mental picture of last time. People miss changes because they did not look, or because the change was one sentence in a long page. Some change fast and without notice.

Every few hours, ClickRuntime scrapes the page as markdown, hashes the content and compares it with the stored hash. If it differs, it works out what changed and emails you the difference. If nothing changed, you hear nothing. Quiet days stay quiet.

It is useful for anyone who needs to react to a public page without checking it constantly.

What you get out of it

Learn about rule changes early
A new term in a supplier contract page or a change in a regulation needs a response. Hearing about it within hours leaves time to plan, not to scramble. That is time you need.
Stop visiting pages by hand
You no longer open the same page every morning just in case. The check runs several times a day and only contacts you when there is something to read. Minutes saved add up.
See exactly what changed
The email shows the difference, not just a note that the page changed. You can judge in seconds whether it matters or is a typo fix. Subtle edits matter in legal text, and the diff highlights them.
Catch changes you would not notice
One altered sentence in a long page is nearly invisible to a human reader. A hash comparison picks up every change, and the diff points to the sentence. Tiny edits often carry the biggest consequences.
Create evidence for disputes
Dated emails prove what a page said on a particular day. That helps when a vendor claims a policy was always the same or when a deadline seems to have moved.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every few hours, ClickRuntime fetches the page you are watching, such as a pricing page, and reads its text.
It compares the text with the copy saved from the last check, then saves the new copy.
When something has changed, you get an email showing the lines that were removed and added.

Before it runs live

Connect Firecrawl

What you get

RunsEvery few hours

Get an email when a web page changestoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Page changes-| Pro | $49/month | +| Pro | $59/month |

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Firecrawl steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

web_page_change_alert.pyexample

import difflib
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, notify, http, state

URL = "https://example.com/pricing"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    resp = http.post("https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape",
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('FIRECRAWL_API_KEY')}"},
                     json={"url": URL, "formats": ["markdown"]}, timeout=60)
    resp.raise_for_status()
    page = resp.json()["data"]["markdown"]
    previous = state.get("page")
    state.set("page", page)
    if previous is None or previous == page:
        return {"changed": False}
    diff = difflib.unified_diff(previous.splitlines(), page.splitlines(), lineterm="", n=0)
    notify.email_me(f"{URL} changed", "\n".join(list(diff)[:200]))
    return {"changed": True}

FAQ

Common questions

Will ads and timestamps trigger false alerts?

They can, if they appear in the page's main content. The scraper reduces this by taking the main content as markdown, and you can ask it to ignore sections such as footers or a visible date.

How often is the page checked?

Every few hours by default, and you can pick a faster or slower pace. Checking every hour is usually enough for news and policy pages, while stock or ticket pages may justify more often. Hourly checks suit urgent pages.

Can I watch only part of a page?

Yes. Ask it to compare a specific section, such as a pricing table or a heading's content, so unrelated changes elsewhere on the page do not trigger an email. Narrower comparisons give cleaner alerts and fewer emails to read.

What permissions does it need?

API key. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (every few hours). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

On a schedule