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Try the Create a Website-Change Monitor API

Test Crawlora's Create a Website-Change Monitor API with realistic prefilled parameters. Generate a cURL request, inspect the expected structured JSON response, and open the full docs or pricing page when you are ready to integrate this public web data extraction endpoint into your application.

Endpoint facts

Method: POST
API path: /monitors
Platform: Monitors
Auth: jwt or apiKey
Credits: No listed credit charge
Required params: request

Create a Website-Change Monitor API documentation Monitors platform page Crawlora API pricing Try List Website-Change Monitors API Try Delete a Website-Change Monitor API Try Get a Website-Change Monitor API Try Update a Website-Change Monitor API Try List a Monitor's Check History API

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/monitors" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $CRAWLORA_JWT" \
  -X POST \
  --data "{}"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
request (body)	object	Yes		Monitor definition

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "66d2f0b1c2a4e5f6a7b8c9d0",
    "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
    "name": "Pricing page",
    "target_type": "page",
    "cadence_minutes": 60,
    "enabled": true,
    "notification": {
      "webhook_url": "https://example.com/webhooks/crawlora",
      "events": [
        "change.detected"
      ]
    },
    "next_check_at": "2026-08-22T11:00:00Z",
    "failures": 0,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

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Method

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Endpoint

POSTjwt or apiKeyNo listed credit chargewebmonitor.monitorResponseDocMonitors

POST /monitors

Create a website-change monitor

Creates a monitor that periodically checks a page or sitemap for changes and can notify a webhook. Free to call -- only completed check runs (services/webmonitor's cron-driven scrape/sitemap fetch) consume credits, at 1 credit per completed run regardless of target type or whether a change was detected. `target_type` defaults to "page" (exact-fingerprint diff of the scraped page). "sitemap" watches the sitemap at `url` for added/removed entries instead, honoring `sitemap.include_patterns`/`exclude_patterns` (shell-style globs matched against each URL's path) and `sitemap.max_urls` (default 5000, hard cap 10000).

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Authentication

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Sample responsePOST

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "66d2f0b1c2a4e5f6a7b8c9d0",
    "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
    "name": "Pricing page",
    "target_type": "page",
    "cadence_minutes": 60,
    "enabled": true,
    "notification": {
      "webhook_url": "https://example.com/webhooks/crawlora",
      "events": [
        "change.detected"
      ]
    },
    "next_check_at": "2026-08-22T11:00:00Z",
    "failures": 0,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

Endpoint details

Method: POST
Path: /monitors
Authentication: jwt or apiKey
Credit cost: No listed credit charge
Platform: Monitors
Parameters: 3 documented fields

Request parameters

Authorization:headerx-api-key:headerrequest:body

Response schema fields

codedatadata.cadence_minutesdata.created_atdata.enableddata.failuresdata.iddata.last_changed_atdata.last_checked_atdata.last_errordata.namedata.next_check_at

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "66d2f0b1c2a4e5f6a7b8c9d0",
    "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
    "name": "Pricing page",
    "target_type": "page",
    "cadence_minutes": 60,
    "enabled": true,
    "notification": {
      "webhook_url": "https://example.com/webhooks/crawlora",
      "events": [
        "change.detected"
      ]
    },
    "next_check_at": "2026-08-22T11:00:00Z",
    "failures": 0,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/monitors" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $CRAWLORA_JWT" \
  -X POST \
  --data "{}"

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Try the Create a Website-Change Monitor API

Endpoint facts

Method: POST
API path: /monitors
Platform: Monitors
Auth: jwt or apiKey
Credits: No listed credit charge
Required params: request

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/monitors" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $CRAWLORA_JWT" \
  -X POST \
  --data "{}"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
request (body)	object	Yes		Monitor definition

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "66d2f0b1c2a4e5f6a7b8c9d0",
    "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
    "name": "Pricing page",
    "target_type": "page",
    "cadence_minutes": 60,
    "enabled": true,
    "notification": {
      "webhook_url": "https://example.com/webhooks/crawlora",
      "events": [
        "change.detected"
      ]
    },
    "next_check_at": "2026-08-22T11:00:00Z",
    "failures": 0,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

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Method

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Endpoint

POSTjwt or apiKeyNo listed credit chargewebmonitor.monitorResponseDocMonitors

POST /monitors

Create a website-change monitor

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Authentication

Signed-in account session required before running this endpoint.

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Sample responsePOST

Shown before your first request. Add an API key and send a request to see the live response, status, latency, and headers.

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "66d2f0b1c2a4e5f6a7b8c9d0",
    "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
    "name": "Pricing page",
    "target_type": "page",
    "cadence_minutes": 60,
    "enabled": true,
    "notification": {
      "webhook_url": "https://example.com/webhooks/crawlora",
      "events": [
        "change.detected"
      ]
    },
    "next_check_at": "2026-08-22T11:00:00Z",
    "failures": 0,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

Endpoint details

Method: POST
Path: /monitors
Authentication: jwt or apiKey
Credit cost: No listed credit charge
Platform: Monitors
Parameters: 3 documented fields

Request parameters

Authorization:headerx-api-key:headerrequest:body

Response schema fields

codedatadata.cadence_minutesdata.created_atdata.enableddata.failuresdata.iddata.last_changed_atdata.last_checked_atdata.last_errordata.namedata.next_check_at

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "66d2f0b1c2a4e5f6a7b8c9d0",
    "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
    "name": "Pricing page",
    "target_type": "page",
    "cadence_minutes": 60,
    "enabled": true,
    "notification": {
      "webhook_url": "https://example.com/webhooks/crawlora",
      "events": [
        "change.detected"
      ]
    },
    "next_check_at": "2026-08-22T11:00:00Z",
    "failures": 0,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-22T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/monitors" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $CRAWLORA_JWT" \
  -X POST \
  --data "{}"