Reviews for PageProbe - Automatic Page Monitor
PageProbe - Automatic Page Monitor by Nodetics
41 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ALEX, 3 months agoI like it a lot the only one who let me check in seconds with sounds alarm as i need it in particular moments of the day, enabling/ disabling it .
( i would like actually to set it on fewer seconds checking like 5 seconds but there is still a limit ) .
Big + = is that when i enable it it remembers my previous settings automatically( rules and exception like "Where is not written that" etc ) .
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On" special day discounts" i bet people can get the right moment it changes price of an item they look , i need it for a bit else, and it's the only free one that delivers so frequent "checks" with sound alarms , i can answer messages filtered by some words instead than receiving notification for all of them , sorting a particular page in a day and so on , really useful thank you .
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.i get still "flase" alarms who dunno the reason , bt still pretty acceptable it really helps sparing time in sorting out . - Rated 5 out of 5by saadmohamed, 3 months agoThanks for the great effort. Please tell me how to use the "Send Telegram message via bot link" notification option.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14101319, 6 months 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, 6 months agoVery helpfull addon, thx to you. On thing that I would like to have, it's custome alarm sounds from hard driver. I can't find this function in addon. Also I find custom sounds function from web, but I got no idea how to use it (:
- Rated 5 out of 5by USFishin, 7 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, 7 months agoGreat extension, stopped working at some point, but now works just fine.
Developer response
posted 7 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, 8 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, 10 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 5 out of 5by Kadircan Ersahin, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ahmed, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14643647, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by panagiotis, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15049933, 3 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, 3 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, 3 years ago
Developer response
posted 3 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 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12362519, 3 years agosome requests, please.
1 Can the tracker be created directly under the root directory? Instead of having to be under a group. Or, can a user-specified group be opened automatically when the admin page is opened, instead of having to be selected with a mouse click.
2 The custom column sorting settings should be saveable so that they can be viewed in a preferred way, e.g., the latest updated entries are shown at the top first.
3 Add an option to have the extension icon badge not automatically disappear if the admin page is just opened and the entry changed is not clicked to open it manually.
4 The names of entries with changes should be bolded until they are opened.
Thanks.