Whether you want to know if the price of a product has changed or when a certain registration form is online, or you want a notification as soon as the content of a webpage has changed: Web Change Monitor is lurking for you and gives you a notification as soon as it detects a (specific) change on the requested web pages.
WebChangeMonitor
price
Free
Language
English
OS
Windows and Linux
Website
www.tiny.cc/wchmon
8 Score 80 
- Pros
- Monitor specific html tags
- Negatives
- No own comparison function
- Intervals only globally
Web Change Monitor is a portable open source tool that is surprisingly easy to use, at least when you want to compare web pages as a whole. The program window is completely empty at the first start-up. Logical, because of course you want to indicate yourself which URLs the tool should look for possible changes.
Configuration
There is a strong tendency to immediately add a few URLs, but it is best to go through the configuration window first. Here you can specify the frequency with which monitoring should take place (in minutes, hours or days) and when the first check must be carried out.
Since you probably want to compare different page versions, you should also add a tool that makes such a comparison possible. This is because it is not standard in Web Change Monitor. WinMerge seems a suitable candidate for this. The rule
Monitoring
If you have adjusted everything to your liking, you can add URLs to your heart’s content. All you have to do is type in the url and provide a description. You can also set here whether the “ignore patterns” from the configuration file should also apply here.
However, you can also specify very specifically which html content the tool on the page should monitor, for example everything between the tags .
Web Change Monitor makes it clear on each page that changes have been detected on each page. With a mouse click you can then pass on the two versions to the (external) comparison tool for study.
It is also useful that you can export an overview table of the checks performed to a csv file.
Conclusion
Anyone who likes to check the content of one or more web pages on a regular basis has an excellent Web Change Monitor tool. You set everything to your liking and you hardly have to worry about it. It is a pity that there is no internal comparison tool built in.
