Googled "monitor web page changes"
Source of info below: http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/monitor.htm
Watch That Page
URL: http://www.watchthatpage.com/
This is a totally free service run by ATS Consulting, a Norwegian
company that specialises in software development. You can monitor an
unlimited number of pages, which can be grouped into folders and
monitored on a daily or weekly basis. There is a keyword matching
option that filters the changes that are relevant to you, for example
if you are only looking for news where a certain term or phrase occurs
such as a company or a product name. Channels enable you to divide
your pages into groups based on importance or content type. Each
channel can have different properties: some can have keyword matching
and daily reports whilst others can be checked less frequently and
report all changes. Email alerts can include the text that has changed
on your pages or just list the URLs of pages that have changed.
Wisdomchange
URL: http://www.wisdomchange.com/
Wisdomchange is a free service that checks for changes to the text of
a web page. Changes in HTML tags or images are ignored. In addition to
the standard email alerts you can also have notifications sent to your
mobile phone or pager. There is no limit to the number of bookmarks
that you can set up. Features to be added soon include an option for
importing bookmarks and keyword searching and monitoring.
Change Detection
URL: http://www.changedetection.com/
This is a free service. You can monitor an unlimited number of pages
but there is no option on the ChangeDetection site that allows you to
view all of your pages. This means that you can easily lose track of
what you are monitoring. There are no options for changing the
frequency of monitoring - it seems to be done on a daily basis - or
for selecting text or keywords. The email merely notifies you that the
monitored page has changed. The notification includes a link to the
changed page and an option to "unsubscribe".
ChangeDetect
URL: http://www.changedetect.com/
The free version of this service allows you to monitor a maximum of 5
pages a week and marks web page text for you with color-coded
highlights of what has changed. You can receive web page change
notifications via your email, pager, ICQ or text messaging. The
subscription services allow you to monitor more pages and password
protected pages. ChangeDetect Personal costs US $1.95 a month and
monitors 10 web pages. ChangeDetect Plus costs US $14.95 a month for
100 web pages and allows you to set up keyword and phrase notification
triggers. ChangeDetect Professional costs $39.95 a month for 500 web
pages with content checked twice-daily.
Track Engine
URL: http://www.trackengine.com/
The free part of this service, which is limited to 5 pages, is a
demonstration for the priced version. For each page you can set up an
easy to remember name or description and the monitoring frequency
(daily, 2 days, 3 days or weekly). The advanced options enable you to
select the colour for highlighting the changes on the monitored page,
and to track changes to hyperlinks, images, numbers and dates as well
as the text. You can request alerts for changes that include specified
words or phrases and tell it to ignore certain changes. You can even
monitor pages that are password protected by supplying Track Engine
with your user name and password. You can upgrade to "Big Breakfast",
which costs US $4.95 a month for 50 bookmarks, or to "Just Coffee" at
US $19.95 a year for 10 bookmarks.
Copernic Tracker
URL: http://www.copernic.com/en/products/tracker/
Copernic Tracker is a monitoring program that costs US $49.95. Once
installed on your PC it enables you to track any number of pages on
external sites and intranets. You can track changed words, new links
or images. There is a useful advanced query form for tracking specific
words within pages, Boolean and other search operators (AND, OR,
NEAR).
Copies of page revisions are stored locally so that you can compare
changes that occurred in the past and add your own notes for tracked
pages and each of their revisions. There is an option for importing
favorites from Internet Explorer so that you do not have to key in
lists of sites, but no facility for directly importing
Mozilla/Netscape bookmarks or Opera Hot lists.
There are four pre-set tracking schedules: Multiple Times per Day, On
a Daily Basis, On a Weekly Basis and On a Monthly Basis. Alerts can be
a tray icon, desktop alert or notification message, SMS notification,
email report with the tracked page contents and changes highlighted. |
