Chrome has a lot of super useful extensions (or plug-ins) that can save time by taking over many of the tasks we need to do manually. The plug-in of webpage change monitoring is a typical extension of this kind, such as following American TV series need to pay attention to the latest subtitle, a website purchase activity, or a favorite website and new articles, without the plug-in can only rely on the sixth sense or frequent F5. Win7en has been using an extension called Page Monitor, but has found that while it’s easy to use, it often doesn’t work when it comes to monitoring certain elements of a web Page. Therefore, in the process of looking for new extensions, I found a Web monitoring extension named “Distill Web Monitor”. Distill Web Monitor is also a powerful extension tool that I will introduce to you in detail.

Introduction to the Distill Web Monitor Web page Monitoring extension

Distill Web Monitor is a more user-friendly Web content monitoring tool than Page Monitor. In addition to monitoring the entire Web Page, it also provides partial Web content monitoring, such as a certain article, a certain text or even a certain word, as long as it changes, the plug-in will provide update prompts. This way, useless content changes, such as AD content, post times, and so on, are not monitored.

In addition, The Distill Web Monitor also supports monitoring the Feed content of Web sites (requiring that the current page has a supported Feed subscription link), eliminating the need for RSS subscriptions. In the automatic detection of changes in the interval, the minimum can be 5 seconds, in part of the page can also use real-time change reminder.

In the way to remind, in addition to the local browser pop-up window remind and ICONS on the number of changes, but also provide email, as well as SMS remind (part of the advanced version can be enjoyed).

Distill Web Monitor monitors Web pages or source updates at any time and sends you SMS or email alerts when changes are detected. Distill runs on your browser, checks for changes to monitored pages, and notifies you immediately when changes are detected.

Features:

* Easy selection of content from any web page. * Highlight changes. * View the change history. * Supported operations:

– Email – SMS – prompt tone – notification pop-up window – Push notification to mobile phone – Webhook

* Use an inbox-style Watchlist to manage monitoring tasks. * Intelligent operating conditions. * Use powerful expressions to select content. Select content using Xpath, CSS, or Javascript. Extract matching content from web pages using regular Expression. * Advanced subscribers can synchronize Watchlist across different devices.

Brief tutorial:

* Open the web page you want to monitor. * Click Distill’s drop icon on your browser toolbar. * Select “Partial page” or “Monitor whole page” according to your needs. To select some pages, hover the mouse over the area of the page that you want to monitor, and then “click” to select some pages that you want to monitor. * Click Save, and you’re done!

Click the Distill icon to enter the monitor list and view the list of monitored pages.

Usage description of Distill Web Monitor

Download and Install

Extension name: Distill Web Monitor

Supported languages: simplified Chinese, English and 11 other languages

Download from the Chrome App Store

Warm tip: Can not access Chrome App Store users, you can download through CRX Extractor, specific use of tutorial please refer to: CRX Extractor download Chrome App Store extension good helper.

Method of use

1, open you need to monitor the web page, such as Win7en paradise open is an American drama subtitle update page

2. Since the page was updated “X days ago”, a full page monitor would have monitored a lot of useless data. So, just select “subtitles (121)” above the navigation, and this 121 will be added as soon as new subtitles are released. Let’s click on the Distill Web Monitor icon on the right side of Chrome’s address bar and select “Select parts of a Web page to Monitor.”

3. Next, when moving the mouse, a black rectangular box will appear. We move it to the location we want it to be and then left-click on it.

4. Detailed Settings, such as the name, will be displayed later. Arrangement – can adjust the monitoring interval, such as the shortest 5 seconds or the longest 30 days, can also be changed to never update, want to update later can be edited; Operation – here you can set up the way of reminding, such as pop-up window, prompt sound, email, etc. (some need to pay to use); Conditions – Conditions can also be further filtered to change the results, such as the appearance of a text in the prompt. Don’t forget to save the Settings after you complete the detailed Settings.

5, return to the monitoring list, here will show you monitor all the web pages, the new added will show “preview will be available soon after this task runs” prompt, you can also temporarily turn off or open through the switch on the right.

conclusion

Distill Web Monitor is a Web monitoring and reminding tool that has all the features. Although the free version has limitations on the number of cloud monitoring and email alerts, it does not reduce the functions of local monitoring. As an ordinary user, it is perfectly adequate. If you can afford it, you can also buy the paid version, which costs a monthly fee and offers a variety of plans.

In terms of multi-languages, although Distill Web Monitor has simplified Chinese interface, the Chinese version is not very perfect. At first, I thought that the friend who provided The Chinese version did not update in a timely manner. After contacting the extension author and obtaining the text that needed To be Chinese, I found that most of the contents that were not Chinese could not be Chinese. Fortunately, there are not many of them and they don’t affect use.

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