Reviews for PageProbe - Automatic Page Monitor
PageProbe - Automatic Page Monitor by Nodetics
Review by cosmicsin-y?
Rated 5 out of 5
by cosmicsin-y?, 4 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.
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.
52 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 23 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by CronosTitan, 3 months agoI was not able to get it to work properly. On marking content and select 'Monitor' I get a popup when I can set a configuration, but the Save/Cancel buttons don't work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ALEX, 4 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 .
Edit
.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, 4 months agoThanks for the great effort. Please tell me how to use the "Send Telegram message via bot link" notification option.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18467492, 5 months ago
- 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, 7 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 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15456884, 2 years 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, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ahmed, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Kuero, 3 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 3 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, 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