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Page Monitoring

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jamditis·vlatest·devops·MIT

Continuously tracks website changes & alerts you to updates, errors, or regressions using jamditis's page-monitoring skill.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill page-monitoring -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

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Publisher

jamditis

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Live repository

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

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  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned jamditis/claude-skills-journalism at 8a047d85f3.

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8a047d85f3
Manifest
research-toolkit/skills/page-monitoring/SKILL.md
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2 files, 816 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill, Page Monitoring, enables an AI agent to continuously track changes on websites and alert you to updates, errors, or regressions. It uses a methodology that includes comparing monitoring services like Visualping, ChangeTower, Distill.io, Wachete, and UptimeRobot. The agent can monitor entire pages or specific elements within a page using CSS/XPath selectors, allowing for targeted tracking of headlines, prices, stock availability, sections, or table data.

When to use it

  • Track news articles: Monitor headlines for breaking stories.
  • Monitor product pricing: Detect price changes on e-commerce sites.
  • Check inventory levels: Track the availability of products online.
  • Verify content updates: Ensure specific sections or paragraphs remain unchanged.
  • Archive important web pages: Preserve snapshots of web pages over time.

Key capabilities

  • Page and Element Monitoring: Tracks entire webpages or specific elements defined by CSS/XPath selectors.
  • Content Hashing: Uses SHA256 hashing to detect changes in page content.
  • Local Storage: Stores monitoring state locally for persistence.
  • Selector Examples: Provides example CSS/XPath selectors for common use cases (headlines, prices, availability).
  • Service Comparison: Offers a comparison of different web monitoring services.

Example prompts

  • "Monitor the news article headlines on [website URL] and alert me to any changes."
  • "Track the price of [product name] on [e-commerce website URL]."
  • "Add [website URL] to my page monitor with the selector '.article-headline'."

Tips & gotchas

  • Selector Precision: Accurate CSS/XPath selectors are crucial for targeted monitoring. Incorrect selectors can lead to false positives or missed changes.
  • Rate Limiting: Be mindful of website terms of service and potential rate limits when frequently accessing pages.