Verid

What is Verid?

Verid is a developer-first web change detection API. It watches any web page, pulls out the exact fields you care about, and fires a webhook the moment something meaningful changes. Instead of noisy screenshots, it tracks structured data so teams get clean, reliable alerts for prices, releases, and content updates.

Top Features:

• Flexible extraction: use CSS, XPath, JSONPath, regex, or AI natural language selectors.
• Smart predicates: nine diff rules fire only on meaningful changes like price drops.
• Reliable delivery: signed webhooks with retries plus Slack, Discord, and email alerts.

Use Cases:

• Price tracking: watch competitor pricing and inventory and react to drops quickly.
• Release monitoring: follow GitHub, npm, and PyPI versions for new package updates.
• Compliance alerts: monitor government portals and filings for regulatory changes automatically.

Who Can Use Verid?

• Developers: build monitoring and intelligence features without writing scrapers from scratch.
• SEO teams: track search results and pages to spot ranking and content shifts.
• E-commerce sellers: follow rival prices and stock levels across many stores.

Pricing

• Free ($0): five monitors, daily checks, and fourteen days of history.
• Starter ($19/mo): fifty monitors, hourly checks, and one hundred eighty days history.
• Pro ($49/mo): two hundred fifty monitors, fifteen minute checks, and yearly history.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Structured data: field level diffs cut noise compared to plain screenshot tools.
• Developer friendly: clean REST API, OpenAPI spec, and an official Node SDK.
• Reliable alerts: retries and a dead-letter queue keep notifications from getting lost.

Cons:

• Technical setup: non-developers may struggle with selectors and webhook configuration.
• Node only SDK: other languages must call the raw REST API directly.
• Check limits: faster check frequencies sit behind the higher priced tiers.

FAQs:

1) What does Verid do?

It monitors web pages and sends alerts when chosen data fields actually change.

2) Is there a free plan?

Yes, the free tier includes five monitors with daily checks and short history.

3) How are alerts sent?

Through signed webhooks plus Slack, Discord, and email, with automatic retries on failure.

4) Can it handle protected sites?

Yes, three-layer fetching adds headless browsers and residential proxies for tough pages.

5) Does it support AI extraction?

Yes, you can describe target data in natural language for AI-powered extraction.