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Monocle: The Monitor 🧐

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Monocle: The Monitor 🧐

Monocle: The Monitor 🧐

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Vasek Codey Vlcek

Vasek Codey Vlcek

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Monitor ANYTHING 24/7. Content and listings. Compare results. Get mobile alerts. Trigger actions. Filter using keywords or custom conditions. Useful for listings, news, articles, products and more.

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Monocle: Content & Listings Monitor 🧐

Automated monitoring of listings and page contents with instant alerts and actions!

Monitor online:

  • content πŸ“‹
  • listings πŸ“œ

for

  • arrivals ✨
  • updates πŸ“‘

use (optional)

  • keywords πŸ”‘
  • filters 🎯

get

  • actions πŸ€– βš™οΈ
  • alerts πŸ“’πŸ“±πŸ””

on changes of interest (e-mail, mobile push notifications).

Use existing watchers or create your own config easily.

Examples

Did you miss the job | news | deal | offer | announcement ?

Forget about checking and missing anything ever again!

Listings

Beforeβž”Change
βž”

Articles

Beforeβž”Change
βž”

Updates

Beforeβž”Change
βž”

Support

Need help? πŸ”₯ Found a bug? 🐞 Get in touch! πŸ‘‹πŸ™‚

Need more? πŸ’― Get a free custom config 🎁

Features

Monitor anything at all times while you kick back and relax! 🍿 πŸ–οΈ 🌴

Listings πŸ“œ

Monitor any lists, listings and listable items. Pagination is supported!

  • jobs 🧰
  • news πŸ“Ί
  • blogs ✍️
  • issues πŸ› οΈ
  • articles πŸ“‹
  • products πŸ›’
  • anything! πŸ’‘

Actions πŸ€–

Integrations βš™οΈ

  • custom actions triggered by updates through integrations

Notifications πŸ””

  • real-time mobile alerts πŸ“± for audible feedback (or e-mail)

Filters 🎯

Filter the updates using keywords and static filters

Filterβž”Result
"apify"βž”

Track changes over time against previous records with advanced conditions and dynamic filters

Filtersβž”Result
price < oldPrice * 0.7βž”

Pages πŸ“ƒ

Pagination support for listings spread across multiple pages.

pages

Login πŸ‘±

Reuse user sessions where user authentication is required.

Objectives 🏹

Watch and track:

  • new items (e.g. articles, products etc.)
  • any list of items that is updated regularly (news, jobs etc.)
  • any change in items (e.g. price, availability, description etc.)
  • any change based on absolute rules (e.g. price under a static limit)
  • any change based on relative rules (e.g. price 50% lower than before)

Motivation 🌱

Have your watchdog keep an eye out for you!

  • monitor new posts, articles and news feeds
  • monitor inventory of available products
  • monitor jobs with desired keywords
  • monitor projects on marketplaces
  • monitor reports in bug trackers
  • monitor sales and discounts
  • monitor your competitors
  • ... etc.

Roadmap πŸ—ΊοΈ

  • more default configs
  • more notification services
  • support for pagination - done! βœ”οΈ
  • full login/session support with 2FA/MFA - 50%
  • bypass browser using a parser for better efficiency

Selectors

Need help with page element selectors?

Even better - use this automatic helper:

  • SelectorGadget - Chrome extension for automated visual element selection

Click on a page element that you would like your selector to match (it will turn green). SelectorGadget will then generate a minimal CSS selector for that element, and will highlight (yellow) everything that is matched by the selector. Now click on a highlighted element to reject it (red), or click on an unhighlighted element to add it (green). Through this process of selection and rejection, SelectorGadget helps you to come up with the perfect CSS selector for your needs. Holding 'shift' while moving the mouse will let you select elements inside of other selected elements.