diff --git a/Detecting-changes-in-HTML-page-sources.md b/Detecting-changes-in-HTML-page-sources.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86b6832 --- /dev/null +++ b/Detecting-changes-in-HTML-page-sources.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +For some webpages, relevant information is best accessed by checking the HTML page source. + +## Use Case +For example, the HTML response of web shops like https://www.campuspoint.de contains the product listings in JSON format which is then processed client-side with JS to produce the final markup. One could use the JS-enabled [[Playwright-content-fetcher]] for such a webpage, but checking against the page source is more efficient. + +## Approach +* In the General tab, prepend the target URL with `source:` (example: `source:https://www.campuspoint.de/mobile/notebooks/lenovo/thinkpad-t-serie/thinkpad-t14s.html`) +* In the Request tab, choose the "Basic fast Plaintext/HTTP Client" fetch method +* Choose a suitable trigger in the Filters & Triggers tab, for example the regex-based "Extract text" one. + * Example: use `/"product_count":(\d+)/i` to check when campuspoint.de adds new models of a certain laptop series to their inventory. \ No newline at end of file