Reviews for PageProbe - Automatic Page Monitor
PageProbe - Automatic Page Monitor by Nodetics
Review by Rico Liebscher
Rated 5 out of 5
by Rico Liebscher, 4 years ago46 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18467492, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14101319, a month agoEasy to use, and it's free!
If you have a homeserver, this extension can be used to track the price of any page.
very complete with many notification options and customizable, perhaps it does not have a good interface but it is very functional 10/10 - Rated 5 out of 5by Dave, 2 months agoThis addon is just great except one thing. I can't rid of blinking left tab which used by Dynamic site loading mechanism - pinned tab. I can't hide it, I can't make them not hiding auto and move my tabs string left and right, maybe you can help with this. The second Dynamic site loading mechanism - separate loaded window is less comfortable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by USFishin, 2 months agoI've been using this for years to track prices of products and flights and I'm very happy with the results! One feature I'd like to see, which may not be possible, is if it can be set to use an existing opened tab to scan each time instead of opening a new one. The reason for this is on some pages (right now I'm on AA.com to track a flight) if I manually complete asearch for a flight my results show up. You can then refresh that page/tab you already have opened and it will "continue your session" and keep you active and refresh the search results. As soon as PageProbe runs a scan it opens a new tab with the same address as what I've manually searched for, but since it's a new tab AA.com sees it as a "new session" and gives me an error that my session has expired. I can continue to manually refresh the page where I did my manual search on, but PageProbe won't work since the website sees it as a new session and needs a new search. Any ideas or help on this would be greatly appreciated!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dmomitorius, 2 months agoGreat extension, stopped working at some point, but now works just fine.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThat message is displayed when either your "Play audio URL" or "Open URL in Tab" action contains a value that does not start with the string "http".
Can you send a screenshot of your tracker to our support email address instead of using reviews for bug reports/support requests which is not the intended way to use reviews. - Rated 5 out of 5by AD8, 3 months agoI'm writing a review to give some love to this addon, most other addons are far too limited in the kinds of notifications they allow unless you pay! This one has a few notification options that I find very useful and one in particular that I desired, so 5 stars across the board! The only thing that would make it better is if it offered direct email notifications...
- Rated 5 out of 5by Diskos, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Сырное, a year agogood for users who complained about "distill", but... for ordinary users, "distill" can graphically display what has changed on the page. plus, "distill" can select the monitored content through the extension icon (this extension opens the extension settings).
here you go into the extensions and everything is displayed with static text in the columns. there is no graphical representation of the changes. it is good for tracking simple and concise data, and if the Internet page appears to be a long canvas, then specific changes on it are unclear. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15456884, a year agoAwesome extension! Can you please add option to save more than 150 records in history? I would like to make this a custom value...
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kadircan Ersahin, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ahmed, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Kuero, 2 years agoDecent page monitor for finding deals. Problem is the extension icon will show a notification number for ANY change in the page element being monitored, regardless of how small, even $0.01. This means the extension icon is constantly begging me to click on it even if nothing interesting has happened, wasting my time. It should only show the number when a change matches a condition you have set say, only if "element"<$15.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHave you configured the tracker properly and set that condition in place?
If yes and it still doesn't work, please contact our support email (send of picture of your tracker settings) and we can help. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14643647, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by panagiotis, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15049933, 2 years agoGREAT. AWESOME. Discovered it this morning. Spent just a few minutes to setup without prior knowledge of the tool. I can already enjoy a day long of monitoring ;-) . I'm monitoring some indicators about the quality of my internet connection, by querying some administration page of my modem. Really awesome. THANK YOU
EDIT: one week later, I'm even more impressed. The "integration" with IFTTT is also super handy. +++ - Rated 5 out of 5by Sed, 2 years agoIt works great!
Is it possible with a cron every 10 seconds? or is every minute the lowest setting?
I now use Task scheduler to start Firefox and kill FireFox for the short every 10 seconds probes I do daily. - Rated 5 out of 5by harl windwolf, 2 years ago
Developer response
posted 2 years agoWe found the bug and fixed it. The fix is in current release PageProbe 1.36.4+ (available in AMO).
The XPath selector bug is fixed in 1.36.5 (now in the AMO review queue).
Thanks for your reports and sorry for the late response (these somehow didn't end up on the Product Backlog although it was apparently you who sent that email and configuration file a long time ago).- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12318509, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15121920, 3 years agoFor the price of free, I appreciate the effort and time spent to make this extension, so in that regard, five full stars! I hope people will not hesitate to try this extension because it does work,
However in the content of review, I've given this a three star rating. The interface and UI is a little rough. Not terrible, just rough, and I wish there was slightly more documentation for the options available, and I'd technically only knock off a half-star for that, but that's not an option here!
Also, the lack of image tracking support knocks off a full star as well. I feel like with the complexity of the text-based options, that this is a bit of an oversight, even with the stated goal of the project.
But really, good job otherwise!Developer response
posted 3 years agoDid you check the PageProbe help file? What is missing from that?
Most img tags on pages have attributes like "src", "style" or "class" that you can track. Just append e.g. @src to the selector and you can track the source of the image.
Scanning images on bitmap level would be infeasible anyway. - Rated 5 out of 5by nomorsad, 3 years agoUI could be improved to be more intuitive but it works lovely
- Rated 5 out of 5by Scoox, 3 years agoI'm usually a picky bast*rd but this add-on delivers. I have tried many content tracking add-ons and I can confidently say PageProbe is by far THE BEST of its kind. It is highly configurable and very reliable. I use it for tracking product prices and thanks to it I've been able to save money on my online purchases. Just to mention some of my favorite features, it keeps a history of old values that it can display in graph form, it allows organizing trackers into folders and sub-folders, tracker import and export, and it's cross-platform (Firefox and Chrome). I experienced a bug which the developers resolved within hours of my report, and an update was released the very next day—really impressed. I'd love to see email notifications added in the future, if possible at all. Thank you!
Developer response
posted 3 years agoEDIT: it turned out that there's a bug in Telegram action in PageProbe 1.35.1 that can cause PageProbe background process to go into an endless loop causing high CPU or skip actions after the Telegram action. The bug is fixed in 1.35.2 which should become available after the submitted version passes Mozilla Add-on Store review process. - Rated 5 out of 5by Blaise Kal, 3 years agoThanks, this is really advanced and useful! Lots of options to include and exclude content, and lots of actions for alerting.
- Rated 5 out of 5by cosmicsin-y?, 3 years agoHey thanks so much :-)
this is great & does almost exactly what I want. I't took a little playing around to get it to work for me as I'm basic & don't really understand the tech' much at all but with your extensive help files & a bit of time & experimenting it's going good, I nearly had to go looking for a youtube video or email the author for help but with a bit of patience & bumbling around I worked it out. One of my newb mistakes was having it probe a picture element instead of text, although I could see that what the picture was of had changed pageprobe could not as I think it only looks at the size of the picture and where it is hanging which I don't think changes, soon as I changed to monitoring the pictures text description it worked fabulous. I couldn't get the sound notifications to work & the popup notification disappears even tho I have it set to no timeout but I'm pretty sure that's just my old firefox esr version, anyway it's no big deal & probably would just give me a fright like the auto loading tabs did the first few times I got it working :-D
+1 for the root directory request or pinning the general folder open.