Webpage Change Detection & Alerts with Google Suite and Hash Tracking

This n8n template can monitor and detect changes to a webpage's contents and notify you only when a change occurs. Great to keep an eye on and track publicly available documents such as company TOS, government policy or competitor pages. How it works A scheduled trigger is used so we can run everyday to automate this process. A website page is then fetched with the HTTP request node and the contents we want to track are extracted using the HTML node. To detect changes, we generate a hash on the contents with the cryptography node and compare it with previously seen hashes using the "remove duplicates" node. If the hash was seen before, the workflow stops here. Finally, when new changes are detected a copy of the contents are uploaded to Google Drive and a logged into a Google sheet. A notification email can also be sent if action is required. How to use Update the URL you want to track in the node named "variables" and ensure the HTML node has updated selectors to get the content you want. Ensure the timezone is set correctly when using the Scheduled Trigger node. Requirements Google Sheets, Drive and Gmail for storing and notifying about changes. Webpages should ideally be publicl