Does this site respect robots.txt?<p>Does it render javascript content (so e.g. <div ng-view> angular sites work)?<p>Does it exclude or include comments... if I watch a blogpost with comments will every new comment cause an alert or only blogpost changes?<p>Will I get a notification if the page briefly 500 errors when you hit it, or does it have to get a 200 before it reports a change?<p>Will I get a notification if a page disappears entirely?<p>Does it scrape only once per day or more often and alert only once a day?<p>What user-agent does it scrape from on the off-chance someone wants to block it?<p>Does it diff binary data.. for example, if I ask it to watch an image url will it hash the image and notify me when it gets updated?<p>Does it auto-detect pages with rss feeds or pubsub feeds and subscribe to them?<p>Does it understand twitter so if I watch a user, it only alerts me of tweets, not e.g. a change in the number of followers?<p>Does it have special code for any website whatsoever?<p>Is the webpage parsing/diffing library / algorithm open source somewhere?<p>Is there a monitization plan, and if not how can I trust it won't vanish?<p>Is there a limit on the number of sites I can watch?<p>I like the simplistic design, but it would be nice if there were more information.
If you prefer privacy and control over your own tools, there are the FLOSS <a href="http://specto.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://specto.sourceforge.net/</a> or the free(as in no cost)ware <a href="http://www.cmcode.co.uk/webmon/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cmcode.co.uk/webmon/</a> for Windows
In the most amazing coincidence the first two pages I submitted had the same digest: 90c0568! One was the front page of a news site, the other was the management page of a company I follow. The mind boggles. Or, they have a bug.<p>edit: as did the 3rd. And 0 bytes returned so probably being blocked. On a black list already?
Adding watch results in a white screen of nothing, no new watches added. I'm trying to monitor the Nexus 6 page :D<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_6_32GB_Cloud_White?id=nexus_6_white_32gb" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_6_32GB_C...</a><p>For my use case, anything more than an hour delay wouldn't be practical. Ideally it would be up to the minute, but I'd imagine that would cause other issues for a service like this. In the past I just used a Chrome Extension. But living in Vietnam I have to make sure my VPN is up in order to see the North American content.
> Does it understand twitter so if I watch a user, it only alerts me of tweets, not e.g. a change in the number of followers?<p>What do you think if I provide a numeric filter option to watches, which filters out numbers on the page before comparing if turned on.
> Does it exclude or include comments... if I watch a blogpost with comments will every new comment cause an alert or only blogpost changes?<p>I don't have a good solution for this problem yet. Let the user specify a css selector or xpath?
I just built "Page Poller" for the Rails Rumble 2014, same concept!
<a href="http://pagepoller.r14.railsrumble.com/" rel="nofollow">http://pagepoller.r14.railsrumble.com/</a>
Looks very similiar to <a href="https://followthatpage.com" rel="nofollow">https://followthatpage.com</a> . Worked for me pretty well for non JS pages for last 3 years.
> Does it diff binary data.. for example, if I ask it to watch an image url will it hash the image and notify me when it gets updated?<p>Can you elaborate in what case you might want to do this?