Tips Tuesday: Monitor Websites Using VisualPing
If you need to monitor changes to a website, one option is VisualPing.
VisualPing allows you to monitor either visual changes or changes to the text; if you’re monitoring text, you can limit alerts to when specific keywords are added or deleted. You can also specify the degree of the changes (e.g. “tiny (1%)” or “gigantic (50%)” which, depending on the frequency of changes to the page, can be extremely helpful.
If the website you are monitoring requires specific actions to retrieve information (e.g. fill in a form or click on a button), VisualPing has the ability to do so:
VisualPing also allows you to choose the frequency of notifications, although if you have opted for the free versions you will be limited to “daily” as the most frequent option.
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