ChangeScout – Track Changelogs & Product Updates Automatically

ChangeScout helps product managers, marketers, founders, researchers, customer success teams, and operations teams track changelogs and release notes automatically without manually checking product update pages every week.

Add the changelog URLs you want to monitor, choose your preferred AI provider, and ChangeScout will fetch the latest updates, detect meaningful changes, and generate easy-to-read summaries you can review in WordPress or receive by email.

This is useful for:

• Product managers who want to monitor competitor features, releases, and roadmap signals
• Marketers who want to track product launches, positioning changes, and messaging updates
• Founders who want a quick view of market movement without reviewing long changelog pages
• Researchers and analysts who want structured summaries of product changes across multiple tools
• Customer success and support teams who want to stay aware of updates that may affect customers
• Operations teams who want a lightweight way to monitor important tools and platforms

Key Features

• Multi-URL tracking — monitor multiple changelog pages from plugins, SaaS tools, documentation sites, or product update pages
• AI summaries — generate readable summaries using Google Gemini, OpenAI, or Anthropic Claude
• Scheduled emails — receive changelog summaries weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly
• Force send — fetch and email the latest changelogs on demand without waiting for the next schedule
• Change detection — only send summaries when the source content actually changes
• Custom SMTP — use Gmail or any SMTP server for more reliable delivery
• Auto-detect — try common changelog and release-note URLs automatically from a domain
• Dashboard widget — review recent summaries directly from the WordPress admin dashboard

External Services

This plugin connects to third-party services to fetch and summarize changelog content.

Google Gemini API
Used when you choose Gemini as your AI provider. Extracted changelog content is sent to Gemini to generate a summary.
* Service: https://ai.google.dev
* Terms: https://ai.google.dev/terms

OpenAI API
Used when you choose OpenAI as your AI provider. Extracted changelog content is sent to OpenAI to generate a summary.
* Service: https://openai.com
* Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/

Anthropic Claude API
Used when you choose Claude as your AI provider. Extracted changelog content is sent to Anthropic to generate a summary.
* Service: https://anthropic.com
* Privacy Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/privacy

Jina Reader (r.jina.ai)
* Service: https://jina.ai
* Privacy Policy: https://jina.ai/legal/