WebSite-Watcher 2024 24.0

WebSite-Watcher

WebSite-Watcher is a powerful yet simple website-monitoring tool, perfectly suited to the beginner and advanced user alike. If you can work with an email client, you can even work with WebSite-Watcher! The software places you in complete control over what gets checked, when it gets checked, and even how you are notified.

WebSite-Watcher main features:

Monitor web pages
Monitor password protected pages
Monitor forums for new postings and replies
Monitor PDF/Word/Excel documents
Monitor binary files
Monitor local files
Monitor RSS feeds, Newsgroups and local files
Highlight changes in a page
Powerful filter system to ignore unwanted content
Many more features to stay up-to-date.

Lots of other features:

Additional actions when updates are detected - For example to play an alternative sound, send emails or open the changed page with another program. You configure the software to work the way you want.
Powerful Plugin system - Bookmark checks can be enhanced with the integrated Plugin system. For example to monitor a page for a specific price and alert an update only if the price is less than USD 100. Plugins must be written in the programming language Basic. WebSite-Watcher contains an integrated development system, no other tools are required.
Work with checked pages (Searches, Reports, etc.) - All monitored pages are saved to your hard drive. This allows you to quickly and simply open and view the monitored pages, search text in downloaded files and make reports... all without even having to be online.
Archive pages permanently - Keep the information you need by archiving pages with our tool Local Website Archive. This can be done automatically via the bookmark properties or manually on demand.
Synchronize bookmark files - Synchronize bookmarks between computers with the synchronize functionality.
Backup and Restore - The integrated Backup/Restore feature allows you to backup and restore your settings, bookmarks and downloaded files into/from a zip archive.

WebSite-Watcher 2024 (24.0) changelog:

New check technology: Edge/Browser. You can try to use this technology when a server detects the other technologies as bot.
Check technology Screenshot: Edge can be used as browser engine.
The Plugin system has a completely new scripting engine. The new scripting engine has a new syntax. For compatibility reasons, plugins created with the old plugin system will continue to work for the time being. However, new plugins can only be created with the new plugin system.
The check technology "Chromium" has a new alternative method to get the page content: "Collect". This method analyzes all transferred documents and collects them to a single page. This method might be useful if WebSite-Watcher cannot resolve IFRAMES or other embedded elements.
Twitter/X lists can be monitored via RSS feed
When you insert new bookmarks, WebSite-Watcher first searches for duplicates in the selected folder, then, if not found, in all folders.
WebSite-Watcher ignores the soft-hyphen character (Unicode character U+00AD) in web pages. This character could also be misused to trigger updates in tools such as WebSite-Watcher.
New script commands: StringToFile, FileToString, MinutesAgo, HoursAgo, Now. (description and example see help file)
Chromium/Browser: When using the option to get the page content via PDF, WebSite-Watcher removes all CSS before printing the content to PDF. This produces more reliable results and prevents truncated text.
Proxy exclusion list: If a specified domain starts with a dot, then no proxy will be used for all sub-domains. Eg: .domain.com will not use a proxy for news.domain.com, download.domain.com etc, but will use a proxy for domain.com
Chromium Check Macros improved
Improved automatic detection of character sets (if they are not defined in pages or server logs)
Download Manager: Improved handling of some Cloudflare protected files
Unicode characters were not sent correctly in Pushover messages
Check technology "Chromium / Browser": Proxy exclusion list did not work correctly
Executing plugins could fail under certain circumstances
Smaller fixes and improvements