Watching things that have no feed
Government notice boards, product pages, portals that never send email. Watcher searches, fetches and extracts the text itself.
Watcher
Watch anything on the web. Get told once, when it actually happens.
Watcher checks the sources you pick — RSS feeds, web pages, web searches — on a schedule you set. For each check it asks a language model a question you wrote in plain English (“has the exam result been declared?”, “is version 2.0 out?”), and it only alerts you when the answer is a clear, evidenced yes. It remembers what it already told you, so the same event never arrives twice.
It runs on your own infrastructure, on free tiers, and sends alerts to Telegram or an Android app.
What it is good at
Section titled “What it is good at”Not crying wolf
A trigger needs a real quote from the collected page, a source Watcher rates as credible, and agreement from a second model of a different family. Anything weaker is labelled “unconfirmed” instead of shouting.
Telling you once
Two layers of deduplication — exact event identity, then meaning — so a story reworded by five sites is still one alert.
Running for free
A scheduled CI job, a free database tier, and free model tiers with key rotation. No always-on server is required for the monitoring itself.
Who it is for
Section titled “Who it is for”- You want to be told when something changes on a site that will not tell you itself, and you can run a command or two.
- You already self-host things and would rather own the data than trust a SaaS with your watchlist.
- You want precision over volume — a few trustworthy alerts, not a firehose.
Who it is not for
Section titled “Who it is not for”- You want a hosted product. There is no sign-up: you deploy it yourself. Start at Quickstart.
- You need second-by-second latency. Checks are polled on a cron schedule, typically hourly. See Scheduling.
- You need an iPhone app. The mobile app is Android-only.
Start here
Section titled “Start here”QuickstartRun your first watch locally in about 15 minutes.
Core conceptsWatches, sources, conditions, confidence and trust — the mental model.
The watcher engineExactly what happens on every run, and when an alert fires.
Developer guideLayers, ports and adapters, and where to add your own.