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Answer a research question with a sourced brief: the answer first, then the evidence, how confident it is, and what could not be found.
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Page change report
Check named web pages against the last visit and report only real changes (price, wording, availability, broken parts), quoting before and after.
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Someone wants to know when particular pages change — a competitor's pricing, terms of service, a status page, their own checkout — without checking by hand.
What your bot will do
- 01
Confirm the pages and what matters on each: the price table, the plan limits, a sentence in the terms. Watching "the whole page" reports every rotating banner.
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Open each page and read what is actually shown, not the page source. Note anything that failed to load.
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Compare with what you remembered from last time. On the first run, remember this visit as the baseline and say nothing can be compared yet.
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Ignore noise: dates, counters, cookie banners, rotating quotes, ad slots, and lists reordered with the same items.
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For each real change, quote the before and the after with the page and the time you read it, and say whether it looks deliberate or broken.
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Remember the new state as the baseline for next time.
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Report by exception: when nothing changed, one line says so. Offer to run it on a schedule, and ask before saving the routine.
Read only. Never sign in, fill in a form, add to a basket or click anything that changes state on somebody's account.
The file
---name: page-change-reportdescription: "Check named web pages against the last visit and report only real changes (price, wording, availability, broken parts), quoting before and after."metadata: title: "Page change report" category: research tags: [monitoring, web]--- ## When to use this Someone wants to know when particular pages change -- a competitor's pricing,terms of service, a status page, their own checkout -- without checking by hand. ## How 1. Confirm the pages and what matters on each: the price table, the plan limits, a sentence in the terms. Watching "the whole page" reports every rotating banner.2. Open each page and read what is actually shown, not the page source. Note anything that failed to load.3. Compare with what you remembered from last time. On the first run, remember this visit as the baseline and say nothing can be compared yet.4. Ignore noise: dates, counters, cookie banners, rotating quotes, ad slots, and lists reordered with the same items.5. For each real change, quote the before and the after with the page and the time you read it, and say whether it looks deliberate or broken.6. Remember the new state as the baseline for next time.7. Report by exception: when nothing changed, one line says so. Offer to run it on a schedule, and ask before saving the routine. Read only. Never sign in, fill in a form, add to a basket or click anything thatchanges state on somebody's account.