Pagewatch: set up a watch

Name Page address

What to watch A part of the page

Selector

To choose a different part, close this tab, go to the page, click the Pagewatch icon and pick it again. You can also edit the selector by hand.

The whole page text

Reads the page once, the same way a check does, and shows what Pagewatch would watch. Nothing is saved.

Why: your browser only lets Pagewatch fetch a site's pages after you allow that site. Only the one site you are watching is requested, and you can remove it any time in the browser's extension settings.

How often

Checks only run while the browser is open. Pagewatch has no server.

Check by loading the page in a background tab Pro

Use this only if a plain check cannot see the content (the site builds it with JavaScript). Each check briefly opens the page in a tab that you will see in the tab strip, runs the page's own scripts (so the site may count a visit and load its ads and trackers), and takes several seconds. It is not a hidden window.

Ignore the noise (fewer false alarms)

Ignore upper/lower case Ignore spacing differences Treat lines as an unordered list: reordering is not a change Ignore text matching a pattern (regular expression, one per line; /pattern/flags also works)

Ignore the start or the end of the watched text

Skip the first lines Skip the last lines Ignore everything up to the line containing Ignore everything from the line containing

Alert only if

at least word(s) changed and the text

Small changes that stay below the limit are not lost: they keep counting against the last version you were alerted about.

Rule presets Pro