WebSite-Watcher is a versatile program that lets you monitor changes or updates of your favorite websites. It does not matter if your websites are RSS feeds, password protected sites, forums, etc., the application can monitor their changes all the same.
The application basically works as follows: it stores two versions of an altered website and highlights with bright colors the changes or updates made in both text and images.
The application's interface is very similar to an email client. Bookmarks can be organized into lists or folders, and if you wish, each bookmark can be protected with a password. The program has a powerful filter system for your bookmarks. For instance, it can ignore the changes of certain images or texts. It also includes an option to apply filters automatically or manually, through a handy wizard. The program also includes several features that can be used by advanced users. For example, a script editor, which lets you create macros and automate tasks within the application.
Finally, this new version includes many minor bugs fixes, as well as new internal scripts and plugins that make the program more robust and stable. For example, the application no longer requires Microsoft Office to be installed to convert Word or Excel files to web pages. Also, the program works well in Windows 7.
v12.0.0.100 [Apr 29, 2012]
Added:
- Bookmark properties / Merge pages: It's possible to merge the first x pages from search results (or the last few pages with new content from forum topics) to a single page. This works for URLs that have a parameter that defines the page, eg. http://www.domain.com/search.php?text=abc&page=13
- Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: E-Mail addresses can be selected from a pre-defined list
- Bookmark properties / Options: Bookmarks can optionally be opened in the "Text" tab or in the "Analysis" tab of the internal browser
- Bookmark properties / Actions/Alert on error: New option "Alert after X errors in a row"
- Check FTP folders: The directory listing is converted in a new format and the sub folders and files are sorted. This makes monitoring FTP folders much easier.
- Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: New option "Apply settings to subfolders"
- Export/Import from Excel: New field wswid that is written when exporting bookmarks. This makes it now possible to export bookmarks, change the URL and re-import bookmarks. Before that change, the URL was used to identify a bookmark. If the field wswid is available, then this field is used to identify a bookmark.
- Export/Import from Excel: New fields, amongst other things fields to ignore updates via black/whitelist
- Send e-mails: Advanced rules for sending (optional, can be used as alternative to send e-mails after each check run)
- Send e-mails: Global black list to suppress e-mail sending. If a page contains a defined entry of the global black list, then an e-mail is not sent. For example if a page contains the text "could not connect to database".
- Send e-mails: New option "Send before other e-mails". With that option enabled, e-mails will be queued and sent before other e-mails.
- Send e-mails: BCC (can be entered in program configuration)
- Send e-mails: HTML e-mails optimized and size reduced
- Send e-mails: size reduction when sending e-mails in text format and changes attached
- Virtual folders: New variables {added_age_hours} and {added_age_days}. These variables can be used to create for example a virtual folder "Recently created" that shows all new bookmarks that were inserted within the last 5 hours.
- Scripts: New built-in function "FileExists"
- Internal Browser / Open with external program: Optional command line parameters can be specified
- Internal Browser / "Text" tab: The "Text" tab can now also show the new or old version of the checked page when they were opened in the "Page" tab before clicking the "Text" tab.
- Initialize PDF/Word/Excel files: Automatically use the filename as the bookmark name
- PDF plugin: WebSite-Watcher can extract text from more PDF files
- Filter system: FirstRegex(...) to ignore or monitor only the first occurrence of a regular expression
- Custom columns: Increased custom columns from 3 to 5
- New plugin: Monitor image URLs
- Plugins: Function "HtmlExtract" has a new parameter to extract image URLs from the checked web page
- Plugins / new built-in function: GetComparisonInfo (see help file for detailed description)
- If an AutoWatch countdown is active while the system turns into hibernation, WebSite-Watcher will wait at least 15 seconds before the next AutoWatch check is started after the system returns from hibernation. This gives Windows some time to re-establish network connections before the next AutoWatch check run is started after hibernation. The default value of 15 seconds can be customized via the program tweak "MinAutoWatchSecondsAfterHibernation".
- program configuration / new tweak "ReopenTabsAfterCrash=0": If WebSite-Watcher crashes, then the next start will show a dialog to re-open the last opened browser tabs. This tweak suppresses that dialog and don't re-open browser tabs.
Changed/Improved:
- Bookmark properties / RSS / Ignore articles older than: The minimum number of days is now 1 (30 in previous versions)
Bugfix:
- Some conflicts with "Open in external browser" (Shortcuts Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+Shift+F11) fixed. By default, Ctrl+Shift+F11 is now Ctrl+Shift+0, if you have customized your shortcuts, then this change doesn't affect your shortcut configuration.
- WebSite-Watcher could (in rare cases) falsely report the error "incorrect file size" when checking web pages
- Some special Unicode characters were not decoded correctly
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