Web Content Monitoring

WebWatchBot is a monitoring and analysis software for web sites and IP devices including Ping, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, Port, and DNS checks. It provides in-depth monitoring and alerting functionality as well as tools to analyze and visualize historical data with real-time charting and graphs. Additional features include an option to run as a Windows Service, customizable 3D charts with print support, SQL database storage, and more.

AdSenseLog is a software that allows you to check and analyze your Google Adsense account. It can report on impressions, clickthrough rates, daily revenue and other details, and generate performance graphs for long-term statistics. It supports all AdSense data, including Content, Referrals, Search and Channel statistics. The program can also notify by email or SMS (if available) with revenue updates. A tray icon provides an infotip with up to date information for the latest statistics.

WebSite-Watcher allows you to quickly check an unlimited number of Web sites for updates and changes. Web sites can be checked by file date or file content, and you can use several filters, such as ignore changing banners. In addition, you can sort the results, and import your bookmarks from Netscape Navigator and your favorites from Internet Explorer. WebSite-Watcher saves the last two versions of websites to your harddisk and highlights all textual changes.

Link Checkup is a simple utility for webmasters, that allows you to verify the existence of a link on a list of specified sites. You can add a list of sites and URLs to check for, and the program will check if the exact URL is linked from the site(s). You can check an unlimited number of sites/links and import links from a text file or search engine results.

EyeOnWeb is a web-monitoring tool that lets you create custom alerts for content on web sites. Unlike with most other web site monitoring tool, EyeOnWeb lets you select specific elements of a web page that you want to monitor, as well as custom conditions that trigger a notification. For example, you could monitor the stock rate for a particular item on a page and have it notify you when the value drops below a certain number. This allows you to monitor only the elements of a page that you are interested in, rather than the entire web page (which may change daily). When data on a web page changes in a way you specified, you can choose to be notified via popup window, e-mail, Windows Messenger service, and sound alert. Data can also be saved to a CSV file for a processing in Excel or other spreadsheet programs. EyeOnWeb also includes advanced parsing options that allow advanced users to create more complex monitoring items.

WatzNew will inform you of web sites, incoming mail in POP and web-based mailboxes, new software releases, stock quotes, currency rates, local weather condition, etc. It uses powerful search patterns and message templates to retrieve specific portions of web pages, and presents them in a visually appealing way. Other features include proxy support, atomic time synchronization, fully customizable multilingual user interface and integration with Perl for advanced users. You can create and share channels with friends, or create and distribute a channel for you own web site to keep your customers informed of new services, software releases, etc.

Orbiscope Observer enables you to track changes in web pages and RSS feeds. It highlight the changes, using a built-in browser display and also allows you to view previous versions of the page, which is useful to catch up with changes that occurred over several days. In addition, you can watch for certain keywords to appear and monitor dynamic images (e.g stock charts). If a page has changed or a keyword is detected, you can be alerted via popup message, email or network message. Additional features include support for HTTP authentication, proxy connections, FTP upload of reports and export to HTML and Excel format.

UpdatePatrol (formerly DeltaSpy) enables you to check your favorite sites or blogs for updates and view the highlighted changes from a built-in browser preview. The program works silently in the background and notifies you from the system tray when changes were found. You can configure each site individually and also set specific criteria with keywords and Regular Expressions. Other features include support for HTTP authentication, easy addition on new sites via drop target, user-defined categories and more. DeltaSpy supports monitoring of ordinary web pages as well as RSS, Atom, RDF, XML and text files on the Internet.

Web Forum Reader enables you to read and keep track of your favorite Internet forums without having to use your browser. You can monitor multiple forums from a single interface, quickly browse the new topics with the built-in browser preview, and see the number of new posts across all of your forums at a glance. The program provides a simple step-by-step wizard that guides you through the process of adding new forums. It automatically adapts to the HTML layout of the forum pages by simple point and click actions - no scripting is needed on your end. The results are accurate and worked well with the 3 different forums we used for testing. Other features include a keyword search option, as well as import and export of resources.

Check&Get lets you monitor web pages for updates and notifies you when changes were made to the page. It can save a snapshot of the page for offline viewing, detect dead-links, duplicated and mirrored web pages and allows you to search and sort your bookmarks by URL, description and keywords. You can import your existing Favorites from Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera, and manually add new items to the list as well. It offers customizable settings per site, each with individual schedule and criteria that trigger an update notification. The notification options include sound, email, and popup alert. Additional features include keyword search and highlighting, integrated browser display and more.

URLy Warning allows you to be notified when specified web pages are updated or changed, and provides a browser display that marks the newly added and/or removed items. You can chose to be notified via popup alert, email/pager message and in addition, the tray icon will notify you if changes were detected. The program allows you to set a minimum change requirement, and also limit the change to a section of a page (between two keywords). Supports HTTP Authentication.