WebRSS Alternatives

WebRSS has been discontinued. Similar sites and apps include Distill Web Monitor, which has a free version. Other options are Portia, PolitePaul, WebSite-Watcher and Update Scanner. You're spoiled for choice with Website Monitoring Tools like WebRSS: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone and Mac.

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  1. Distill is a web monitoring tool. It can monitor RSS feeds, a webpage or a part of webpage. Alerts in the form of pop-up, audio or emails can be received.

    79 Distill Web Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  2. Portia icon
     63 likes

    Portia is an open source visual scraping tool, allows you to scrape websites without any programming knowledge required! Simply annotate pages you're interested in, and Portia will create a spider to extract data from similar pages.

    94 Portia alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Vagrant
    • Docker
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  3. PolitePaul icon
     28 likes

    Create RSS feed for any webpage you need. All you need is to make several mouse button clicks.

    23 PolitePaul alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. WebSite-Watcher icon
     22 likes

    WebSite-Watcher detects website updates and highlights all changes in the text. WebSite-Watcher monitors web pages, password protected pages, discussion forums and much more.

    121 WebSite-Watcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Update Scanner icon
     37 likes

    Update Scanner is a Firefox extension to monitor web pages for updates. Useful for websites that dont provide Atom or RSS feeds.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
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  6. Wachete icon
     18 likes

    Track web page changes and get notified. Free Sign-up. Have all data in one place

    82 Wachete alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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  7. Visualping icon
     23 likes

    Visualping is the easiest to use website change monitoring, website change detector and website change alert software of the web. Contrary to other website change monitoring software like ChangeDetector, Versionista, Page Monitor, it tracks and detect visual webpage changes and...

    97 Visualping alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  8. DELTAFEED icon
     8 likes

    Get changes on any website as a News Feed in your Inbox.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. Monitoro icon
     2 likes

    Monitor webpages and receive freshly scraped data everytime the page changes to a webhook of your choice.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • AWS CloudFormation
    • Kubernetes
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Terraform
    • Docker Swarm
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  10. A Web-to-RSS parser in Common Lisp. This software was written because a disappointing number of websites still does not have an RSS or Atom feed so you could subscribe to their updates. The script tries to find new articles on any website according to given criteria (CSS...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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