deltaFeed

Spec sheet

Purpose

deltaFeed monitors webpages that do not provide their own newsstream and makes the changes available as RSS/ATOM feeds.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Content selection

Users can supply a CSS selector to monitor part of a webpage instead of the whole page.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Dashboard

The feed dashboard links to the RSS feed, original page and latest monitored change, and allows users to delete a monitoring.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Data collection

The privacy policy says the service may collect email addresses, server logs including IP addresses and cookie information, and uses cookies to retain personal settings.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Delivery

Monitoring updates are available through a deltaFeed RSS feed, and users can subscribe to email notifications for individual pages.Read 5 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Email delivery

The dashboard lets users enable monitoring mail for an individual page.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Feed delivery

After registering a site, users receive a newsfeed URL that they can add to their preferred newsreader.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Feed management

The dashboard links to the RSS feed, original page, and latest monitored change, and lets users enable email monitoring or delete a feed.Read 5 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Filtering

deltaFeed can try to ignore ads and social media elements and can exclude purely numerical changes or changes below a character threshold.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Free registration

The homepage offers free registration.Read 5 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Initial setup

To create a monitoring, enter the webpage URL and a title; deltaFeed queues the request and fetches an initial version of the page.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Monitoring

The service fetches an initial webpage version and checks registered sites every 6 hours for changes.Read 5 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Monitoring limitations

The terms say deltaFeed does not guarantee that monitored pages will be handled correctly and that extraction may be incomplete.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Partial monitoring

Users can monitor selected page content by specifying a CSS selector.Read 5 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Password protected pages

The documentation says unattended monitoring would require stored login credentials and discusses clear text storage as a concern.Read 5 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Privacy and analytics

The privacy policy says deltaFeed uses its own Matomo-based analytics suite and does not transfer data to third-party services, while also stating that Google cookies deliver dynamic webfonts.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Protected pages

The documentation says unattended monitoring of password-protected pages would require the system to access credentials stored in its databases.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Publisher

The homepage copyright identifies the publisher as slnsys.Read 5 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Special site templates

The documentation describes monitoring templates for Facebook pages and Twitter profiles, and says open Facebook timeline monitoring is not guaranteed.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Supported content types

The terms say deltaFeed does not fetch or monitor files whose content type is other than text/html, text/xml or text/plain.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitreading.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

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