Do you need to keep track of when a website adds new content or makes a change to one of their pages? For corporations, keeping track of what the competition is doing on their website is very important.
ChangeDetection is a service that lets you monitor a URL for changes and get alerts sent to you whenever something specific occurs, like a text change, etc.
Hi – Femtoo – (http://femtoo.com) has been able to do this for some months now. But Femtoo also has these key features:
- Monitor particular parts of a page
- Parse data and check for particular conditions (share price hit a certain amount etc)
- Premium accounts can create ‘low latency’ trackers for critical monitoring applications
- Receive notifications via email, Instant Messenger and soon SMS (I think)
- Add a ‘widget’ to any page to allow people to ’subscribe’ to a ‘tracker’
- It uses the amazing cQuery (http://cquery.com) Server-side CSS Content Selection Engine
- You can publish ‘trackers’ to the ‘Tracker Library’ and anybody can subscribe