Update Scanner
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Update Scanner is a Firefox extension to monitor web pages for updates. Useful for websites that dont provide Atom or RSS feeds.
Features
- Website Monitoring
- Live Push Notifications
- Email Notifications
- Graphical User Interface
- Monitor File Changes
Tags
- Firefox Extension
- web-page
- web-page-monitoring
- website-updates
- rss-feeds
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Developed by
sneakypete81Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is Update Scanner?
Update Scanner is a Firefox extension to monitor web pages for updates. Useful for websites that dont provide Atom or RSS feeds.
Features:
- Select how often each site will be scanned
- Changes to pages are highlighted automatically
- Minor changes can be ignored
- Full international support
Comments and Reviews
Update scanner is easy to setup because it is a Firefox plugin and integrates into the browser, so you do not need to setup browser. But it works only in Firefox and only when Firefox is open. You can determine the level of precision, so that minor changes do not cause alert, but you cannot choose the area of the webpage to monitor. So, it is not suitable for dynamically changing web pages.
The version for FF 46 was good. The new version has one problem that makes it essentially useless (except general public pages.) It can't pass login cookies while scanning. [Reported at https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/119](https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/119) Probably not possible, since the background scan process doesn't share cookies with the main browsing session.