Title: ChangeScout – Track Changelogs & Product Updates Automatically
Author: Fahmid Hasan
Published: <strong>2026 年 4 月 23 日</strong>
Last modified: 2026 年 4 月 27 日

---

搜索插件

![](https://ps.w.org/changescout/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3513364)

![](https://ps.w.org/changescout/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3513362)

# ChangeScout – Track Changelogs & Product Updates Automatically

 作者：[Fahmid Hasan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anikfahmid/)

[下载](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/changescout.1.0.4.zip)

 * [详情](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/changescout/#description)
 * [评价](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/changescout/#reviews)
 *  [安装](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/changescout/#installation)
 * [开发进展](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/changescout/#developers)

 [支持](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/changescout/)

## 描述

**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/

## 屏幕截图

 * [[
 * General settings screen for AI provider and changelog URL configuration
 * [[
 * Notification settings for email schedule and delivery options
 * [[
 * SMTP configuration screen for custom email sending setup
 * [[
 * Changelog preview and testing tools inside the plugin settings
 * [[
 * WordPress dashboard widget showing recent changelog summaries at a glance

## 安装

 1. Upload the `changescout` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`
 2. Activate the plugin through the **Plugins** menu in WordPress
 3. Navigate to **Tools > ChangeScout**
 4. Enter your AI provider API key (Gemini, OpenAI, or Claude)
 5. Add your changelog URLs to track
 6. Configure your notification email and schedule

## 常见问题

### Which AI providers are supported?

Google Gemini (free tier available), OpenAI GPT-4, and Anthropic Claude. You need
to provide your own API key for the chosen provider.

### Does the force-send button affect scheduled emails?

No. Force-send is completely independent from scheduled emails. It bypasses the 
cache and sends immediately without updating the change-detection hash, so scheduled
emails still fire normally.

### How do I set up Gmail SMTP?

Enable 2-Factor Authentication on your Google account, then generate an App Password
at myaccount.google.com/apppasswords. Use `smtp.gmail.com`, port `587`, encryption`
TLS`, and enter your Gmail address and the App Password.

## 评价

此插件暂无评价。

## 贡献者及开发者

「ChangeScout – Track Changelogs & Product Updates Automatically」是开源软件。 以下
人员对此插件做出了贡献。

贡献者

 *   [ Fahmid Hasan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anikfahmid/)

[帮助将「ChangeScout – Track Changelogs & Product Updates Automatically」翻译成简体中文。](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/changescout)

### 对开发感兴趣吗?

您可以[浏览代码](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/changescout/)，查看[SVN仓库](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/changescout/)，
或通过[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/changescout/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss)
订阅[开发日志](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/changescout/)。

## 更新日志

#### 1.0.4

 * Updated the public plugin title on WordPress.org while keeping the admin menu
   label short as ChangeScout

#### 1.0.3

 * Improved changelog extraction for embedded Featurebase and Next.js changelog 
   pages
 * Improved AI summary guidance for more human-friendly, source-grounded summaries
 * Moved the ChangeScout admin page under Tools in WordPress admin
 * Fixed admin styles and scripts loading on the new Tools page
 * Kept changelog URL handling limited to 4 entries consistently
 * Sorted embedded changelog entries by date so the latest release is selected correctly

#### 1.0.2

 * Fixed the send time dropdown labels to display clean times like 8:00 AM

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed settings fields that were not persisting correctly after save
 * Fixed notification email field saving
 * Fixed SMTP enable/disable setting persistence
 * Fixed dashboard widget refresh behavior

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release
 * AI-powered changelog summaries with Gemini, OpenAI, and Claude
 * Auto-detect changelog URLs from any domain
 * SMTP configuration with test button
 * Eye toggle for API key and password fields
 * Force-fetch isolation from scheduled emails
 * Content extraction via Jina Reader

## 额外信息

 *  版本 **1.0.4**
 *  最后更新：**1 月前**
 *  活跃安装数量 **不到10**
 *  WordPress 版本 ** 5.6 或更高版本 **
 *  已测试的最高版本为 **6.9.4**
 *  PHP 版本 ** 7.4 或更高版本 **
 *  语言
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/changescout/)
 * 标签
 * [AI](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai/)[automation](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/automation/)
   [changelog](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/changelog/)[email notifications](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email-notifications/)
   [release notes](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/release-notes/)
 *  [高级视图](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/changescout/advanced/)

## 评级

尚未提交反馈。

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/changescout/reviews/#new-post)

[查看全部评论](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/changescout/reviews/)

## 贡献者

 *   [ Fahmid Hasan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anikfahmid/)

## 支持

有话要说吗？是否需要帮助？

 [查看支持论坛](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/changescout/)