Does changedetect.io work with GitHub?

[x130844]

Hello,

I have seen a few posts in here where GitHub was mentioned and experienced the same issues that I'm experiencing .but no viable answers were provided.
Has anyone gotten GitHub to work reliably, where fork/forks or stars, Star are properly ignored? I keep getting tons of notifications on stuff I want to ignore. No matter what I try, I get notifications.

for example:
https://github.com/K11MCH1/AdrenoToolsDrivers/releases
fetch method: System settings default
V: Added lines
V: Replaced/changed lines
[]: Removed lines

ignore text:
Star
stars
forks
Commits
Branches

Am I misunderstanding the documentation?
It says:
Each line processed separately, any line matching will be ignored (removed before creating the checksum)

I still get notifications like for example:
(changed) * Fork 75
(changed) * Star 851
(into) * Fork 84
(into) * Star 913
...

or I get
......

.......

with nothing in the middle. and I can't figure what was different.

Thank you

[frostronic]

What are you trying to track exactly? I'm tracking releases using the "/tags" URL, seems to be working so far.

[Xiaoh-123]

Hey, I just started using this great tool and my main goal was to use CD.io to monitor Github releases of various projects, and just like @x130844 I was bothered by the notifications sent for changes in stars/forks/issues numbers.

After a bit of searching, I came to the same conclusion @frostronic did: use the tags page of a project.

However, I was still getting some useless updates for stars and forks, so I looked around in the CD.io settings, and I think I found a decent solution.

Disclaimer: this was only tested on a per-site basis, but I think it can be turned into global settings, depending on what you monitor outside of Github (be mindful that the "Remove elements" suggested below could break CD.io functionnality for other websites).

• For each Github release tags page that you monitor (i.e. https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/tags), hit the "Edit" button in CD.io main page, then go to "Filters & Triggers".
• In the "Remove elements" box, add the following lines:

header
footer
nav

• (Optional?) Tick the "Only trigger when unique lines appear in all history" box
• In the "Ignore lines containing" box, add the following lines:

/\*\ Star/
/\*\ Fork/

• Save and voilà

I am still testing this but it seems to work fine so far, maybe some more tweaking will be needed, but eh, I just learned RegEx one hour ago and installed CD.io yesterday so 😄