Awesome use-case #4,510: How to get notified when Hetzner servers and products are available

Stephen — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:17:51 +0000

Awesome use-case #4,510: How to get notified when Hetzner servers and products are available Stephen Sun, 09/24/2023 - 17:17

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We all love Hetzner for their excellent pricing and solid offers - but how to get a notification when one of their amazing servers comes back in stock?

Hetzner is a well-regarded hosting and cloud service provider known for offering reliable and high-quality hosting solutions. There are several reasons why Hetzner servers are often praised for their great service, Cost-effective pricing, robust infrastructure, multiple data-centres, incredible network performance and great customer service.

But the real heartbreak is when you are hunting for your dream Hetzner Dedicated Server only to find out that it's not available and that there's no good way to get alerts or notifications when Hetzner effectively "restock" that type of server.

Changedetection.io to the rescue :)

How to get notifications or alerts when Hetzner servers are available to buy

Fortunately, Hetzner are super internet-friendly and make it easy to copy the link to the filters, you will need this link, place this link into changedetection.io

First, search for your Dedicated Server at Hetzner, you should see a "No server found" message on the Hetzner server listing page, this may also work for other servers at Hetzner. In our example we searched for a AMD based server, at the time of writing this tutorial, there were no AMD based servers available.

Second, copy and paste the Filter URL into changedetection.io and hit Watch

Third and final, that's it!

Extra points!

And ofcourse, you can jump over to to the [edit] tab and setup your notifications, remember, changedetection.io is not just about sending an email, but more useful is to trigger a message to your Discord channel and let your whole team know that the server you guys are hunting for is now available at Hetzner!

And ofcourse, through the magic of Apprise, changedetection.io supports more than 80 different kinds of notifications, including Slack, MS Teams, RockChat and more. PLUS you can also attach a screenshot!

( See our docs links and tutorials for getting your Discord API link :) )

Extra extra points!

Want to be MORE specific? You can even use the Visual Selector or Browser Steps tabs to click on items, and/or specifically focus on parts of the page - ensuring you get only the relevant notifications when Hetzner update their product availability :)

thanks for reading!

Website content change detection from behind logins - easy

Stephen — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:46:53 +0000

Website content change detection from behind logins - easy Stephen Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:46

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Another great feature of changedetection.io is that you can interact with websites to compare their content.

Often you need to enter in some search query or need to access a page that's only available from behind a login/password form.

Or maybe perform change detection from behind password protected websites?

Note: Only use this on websites where you have permission todo so, and always "recheck" with the maximum realistic time between rechecks, logging-in every minute could get you blocked from the site you are viewing.

Some examples where this is super handy could be

Get an alert when a new invoice is available
Get an alert when your school publishes new important information.
Accept cookie popup forms
Log in to a website to be able to scrape data for other uses (for example you could now make a nice Discord bot that reports new articles that appear from behind a login)

Changedetection.io makes this super easy by providing an easy to use setup page where you can click on individual elements on the page and then enter in the kind of event you want to happen, changedetection.io will automatically detect which action is best for whatever element you selected (for example, enter text in field, click buttons etc)

You could even use this to perform realestate searches, searching for your dream job and more, it's all up to your imagination!

I recommend that you explore this feature, it's so super helpful!