Get notified when a file on GitHub has changed

If you use an rss reader, the easies solution how to track a file or a folder in GitHub is by just adding .atom at the end of the url when looking at the commits.<p>For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;playframework&#x2F;playframework&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master&#x2F;core&#x2F;play&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;scala&#x2F;play&#x2F;api&#x2F;Play.scala" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;playframework&#x2F;playframework&#x2F;commits&#x2F;maste...</a> becomes <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;playframework&#x2F;playframework&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master&#x2F;core&#x2F;play&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;scala&#x2F;play&#x2F;api&#x2F;Play.scala.atom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;playframework&#x2F;playframework&#x2F;commits&#x2F;maste...</a><p>You can do that with every commit url in GitHub, be it for a folder or a file. Just add it to your rss feed reader, done.

My team’s been working on a new feature in Sourcegraph called code monitoring that can do things like this (and a whole lot more) with our search query language. It’s pretty simple:<p>1. Customise our starting point with the file of your choice: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sourcegraph.com&#x2F;code_monitoring&#x2F;how-tos&#x2F;starting_points#get-notified-when-a-file-changes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sourcegraph.com&#x2F;code_monitoring&#x2F;how-tos&#x2F;startin...</a><p>2. Create a new code monitor at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourcegraph.com&#x2F;code-monitoring" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourcegraph.com&#x2F;code-monitoring</a><p>Whenever the file changes, you’ll get an email notification.

It’s exactly for this kind of situations that we built Monitoro[0]. We believe it shouldn’t take hours and so much code to get such a simple change notifier working.<p>You can not only build a tracker like in TFA in minutes and without code, but also track any website (not just github), send alerts to any chat software, so MS Teams, Slack, Discord... and more importantly receive a specific info from the page. For example, the author of the last change, the code at line X etc...<p>Disclaimer: I’m the founder.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monitoro.xyz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monitoro.xyz</a>

You can just create a channel in discord and create a webhook for it then add that webhook to your GitHub repo on the settings(content-type should be Jain) then immediately when any change happens you’ll be notified

Shameless plug: I developed GitEye which does exactly this. It&#x27;s a chrome extension which adds a watch button for every file. When the &quot;watched&quot; file is changed, the user receives an email.<p>Check it here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitteye.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitteye.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a>

If you use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;larder.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;larder.io&#x2F;</a> with GitHub star sync enabled you can get weekly emails for new release notes. While it doesn&#x27;t replicate the functionality demonstrated here, it&#x27;s still a cool tool.

You can set up a GitHub Action that performs an action on any push to master&#x2F;main (or any branch). You can also only perform the action when specific files are changed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;actions&#x2F;reference&#x2F;workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#onpushpull_requestpaths" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;actions&#x2F;reference&#x2F;workflow-syntax...</a>. This shouldn&#x27;t require admin access, assuming admins allow you to use GitHub Actions.<p>I generally don&#x27;t bother looking at master&#x2F;main for code changes unless there&#x27;s something I&#x27;m looking for specifically. I set up CODEOWNERS so that teams get notified when their files are changed in PRs - this is how I get notified of potential changes to files that I care about.

Would not a web page notifier which watches the RAW version for changes would do the job?<p>And by the way: What is a good service for that? All services I used in the past have stopped providing that service. Last one I used was <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;changedetection.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;changedetection.com&#x2F;</a> but it stopped its service.

Does this use polling? And won&#x27;t this cause problems?

The solution to GitHub (Microsoft) dominance is never to further lock oneself into Azure (Microsoft) proprietary tools.<p>This is an ad. Posting it on a personal blog domain is dishonest.