Your Rapport 0.21.0: Enhanced Monitoring and Change Detection

Your Rapport 0.21.0: Monitoring, Change Detection, and Better Artifact Viewing

The web changes fast. Posts get edited. Images get swapped. Pages update quietly while the URL stays the same. If you’re doing digital preservation (or any research that depends on evidence staying stable), that’s the core problem.

Your Rapport 0.21.0 is focused on turning your browser into a more reliable monitoring engine—one that doesn’t just re-capture pages, but helps you detect meaningful changes and review artifacts more easily.

What’s new in 0.21.0

This release includes a mix of new monitoring features, reliability fixes, and usability improvements:

  • Improved scheduled automations algorithm
  • Change Detection algorithms
    • Detect Image Change
    • Detect Selectors Change / Appear
    • Detect Text Change
  • Added a context menu item for monitoring user-specified links
  • Added an integration call for Who Am I to set up monitoring
  • Multiple file uploads supported when authenticated
  • Partial fix for bulk automation failing
  • Fixed an issue with restarting an automated job
  • Converted MHTML to HTML to improve artifact viewability
  • Added MHTML → HTML on-the-fly
  • Fixed render issues
  • Added a hash to the attachment data structure
  • Fixed a Deep Save issue when using the context menu
  • Working on improving badge updates
  • Added timestamps to debug statements
  • Timestamped the last time a scheduled automation ran
  • Removed unused files and more dead code

Change Detection: the headline feature

Monitoring isn’t just “capture again.” It’s “tell me what changed.” In 0.21.0, Your Rapport adds multiple strategies so you can catch meaningful updates even when pages are noisy.

Detect Image Change

Not every change shows up in plain text. Profile photos, banners, screenshots, infographics, and embedded images can carry the most important evidence. Image change detection helps flag visual updates between monitoring runs so you don’t have to manually compare every capture.

Detect Selectors Change / Appear

Selectors are the “signal” you care about: usernames, phone numbers, domains, key phrases, or custom indicators. Selector change/appear detection helps answer: Did the page now contain something it didn’t before?

Detect Text Change

For edits, corrections, “updated statements,” and silent rewrites, text change detection provides a fast indicator that something shifted. It’s the base layer for building workflows like “capture daily, alert on change.”

Right-click monitoring: add links to watchlists instantly

0.21.0 adds a context menu option that lets you monitor user-specified links. This makes building a monitoring queue feel natural:

  1. Browse normally
  2. Right-click a link that matters
  3. Add it to monitoring

This is a small UI change that saves time every day—especially when triaging large sets of URLs from search results, social threads, or spreadsheets.

Who Am I integration: discovery → monitoring with less friction

If you use Who Am I for rapid username checks, 0.21.0 adds an integration call to set up monitoring. When you find something worth watching (a profile, a result page, a discovered account), you can move it into an ongoing monitoring workflow faster.

Better artifact viewing: MHTML → HTML

MHTML is excellent for preservation, but it isn’t always the most pleasant format to review. This release improves viewability by converting MHTML to HTML (including on-the-fly conversion), and it includes fixes for rendering issues so your collected artifacts are easier to read and verify.

Reliability fixes, integrity improvements, and cleanup

At scale, stability is the feature. 0.21.0 includes fixes for bulk automation failures and automated job restarts, adds stronger integrity metadata (hashes), improves timestamps for easier troubleshooting, and removes dead code to keep future development fast and maintainable.

Get the update

If you rely on Your Rapport for digital preservation and repeatable monitoring, 0.21.0 is a meaningful upgrade—especially if you’re building timelines, tracking edits, or watching for new signals across a set of pages.

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Tip: Swap the image at the top with a screenshot of the Change Detection UI, Scheduled Automations screen, or a before/after artifact comparison for an even stronger post.

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