Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page

[theRAGEhero]

Hello,
thank you for this awesome tool.

I noticed that it doesn't work on some pages, I suppose it is for Cloudflare ddos protection.

Please` turn JavaScript on and reload the page.
                                               
 DDoS protection by Cloudflare                 
                                               
 Ray ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Do you know if it's possible to bypass this error?
Thank you and have a good day,
Alessandro

[dgtlmoon]

Hi, unfortunately it will not support the situation where javascript is required, it is a 'dumb' or 'simple' approach to just fetching the HTML, converting it to text, and checking the difference..

[dgtlmoon]

I added a note to the readme about this situation..

[stefanberndtsson]

It is sort of possible via commandline using the chrome/chromium headless feature with repl.

echo 'document.getRootNode().documentElement.innerHTML' | chromium-browser --headless --disable-gpu --repl "$URL" 2> /dev/null | sed -e 's/^>>> //'

That will give you a JSON object out with result.value containing the dom html after body.onload (I think :) )

Something similar should be possible to do by talking to the chrome/chromium remote interface. From there it's also possible to take full screenshots of the page that could also be helpful.

[dgtlmoon]

@stefanberndtsson that's a good idea, but we are only using the html -> text conversion in this project so far...

[dgtlmoon]

@stefanberndtsson @theRAGEhero https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/tree/javascript-browser so there's a new experimental branch, I invite you to check it out!