This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing changedetection.io on your Windows 10 computer.
Open Windows PowerShell and navigate to the directory where you want to install changedetection.io. Then, enter the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io.git
Navigate to the changedetection.io
directory and install the required dependencies using npm by using the following commands:
cd changedetection.io
npm install
Create a copy of the config.example.json
file and rename it to config.json
:
cp config.example.json config.json
Open the config.json
file using a text editor of your choice and modify any options based on your needs.
To start the changedetection.io application, use the following command:
npm start
This will launch a web server on your local machine which you can access by navigating to http://localhost:8338/
in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have installed changedetection.io on your Windows 10 machine. Now you can use it to monitor changes to your website or any other online resource.
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