WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.5)

WebSite-Watcher

WebSite-Watcher is a powerful yet simple website-monitoring tool, perfectly suited to the beginner and advanced user alike. If you can work with an email client, you can even work with WebSite-Watcher! The software places you in complete control over what gets checked, when it gets checked, and even how you are notified.

WebSite-Watcher main features:

Monitor web pages
Monitor password protected pages
Monitor forums for new postings and replies
Monitor PDF/Word/Excel documents
Monitor binary files
Monitor local files
Monitor RSS feeds, Newsgroups and local files
Highlight changes in a page
Powerful filter system to ignore unwanted content
Many more features to stay up-to-date.

Lots of other features:

Additional actions when updates are detected - For example to play an alternative sound, send emails or open the changed page with another program. You configure the software to work the way you want.
Powerful Plugin system - Bookmark checks can be enhanced with the integrated Plugin system. For example to monitor a page for a specific price and alert an update only if the price is less than USD 100. Plugins must be written in the programming language Basic. WebSite-Watcher contains an integrated development system, no other tools are required.
Work with checked pages (Searches, Reports, etc.) - All monitored pages are saved to your hard drive. This allows you to quickly and simply open and view the monitored pages, search text in downloaded files and make reports... all without even having to be online.
Archive pages permanently - Keep the information you need by archiving pages with our tool Local Website Archive. This can be done automatically via the bookmark properties or manually on demand.
Synchronize bookmark files - Synchronize bookmarks between computers with the synchronize functionality.
Backup and Restore - The integrated Backup/Restore feature allows you to backup and restore your settings, bookmarks and downloaded files into/from a zip archive.

WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.5) changelog:

[+] Check-by-screenshot: WebSite-Watcher will detect and alert an error when a server sends an empty page
[+] Toolbar button "Browse" can be configured to open the online version in the external browser
[+] Browser toolbar: "Version" menu contains new item "External browser (online page)"
[+] Browser toolbar: New optional toolbar button "External browser (online page)"
[+] Export bookmarks to CSV file (Tools + Import/Export + Export to: Excel/CSV)
[+] Cosmetic filters work with the TBODY tag
[+] New tweak: AutoWatchGuard=1 (checks every 5 minutes whether AutoWatch is running. If AutoWatch is disabled, then it will be started automatically. Useful if you sometimes need to disable AutoWatch and forget to enable it again.)
[+] CloudSync via rclone: Special Debug-Mode that will help to identifiy problems or bugs of rclone. This mode will show the results after running rclone.exe and waits for a keypress to continue.
[+] Advanced connection rules: fixed rules that are created automatically by WebSite-Watcher for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram can be adjusted (you can increase the limits, but not remove them). These fixed rules are displayed in blue color.
[x] Improved Multi-Monitor support
[x] Improved high dpi support when recording check macros
[+] Advanced setup options: Pre-define options for Browser-Integration, Update-Ticker and Sounds (see help file for more details)
[x] LWA: Improved handling of embedded YouTube videos
[x] LWA: Adding tiled view from WSW did not always work correctly
Smaller fixes and improvements