Distill Web Monitor
Monitor webpage or feed for changes. Get SMS and email alerts on change detection.
Distill runs in your browser to check monitored pages for changes. Get instant alerts as soon as a change is detected.
Featured highlights:
* An inbox style Watchlist to manage monitors.
* Easy content selection from any webpage.
* Highlighted changes.
* Change history.
* Supported actions:
- Email
- SMS
- Sound
- Pop-up
- Push notification on phones
- Slack and Discord Webhooks
- Raw Webhooks
* Condition for smart actions.
* Powerful expression for content selection. Use Xpath, CSS or JavaScript to select content. Use regular expression to extract matches from the web page.
* Sync Watchlist across devices in all plans
Getting started:
* Open a webpage to be monitored.
* Click Distill's drop icon in browser toolbar.
* "Select parts of page" or "Monitor whole page" as needed for your case. In case of select parts, hover around the area on webpage that you want to watch and "click" to select the parts.
* Save selections and done!
Go to Watchlist by clicking the Distill icon to see list of watched webpages.
You can also check out our help article for a quick start: https://distill.io/docs/web-monitor/distill-chrome-extension/
If you need any help, reach out to us at https://forums.distill.io/ or send an email to [email protected].
Latest reviews
very useful
Does not work anymore. Can't go to my watchlist page to change or update the settings (If i click on the link, nothing happens). I'm not using chrome, but a chromium browser, and i think that's the problem.
well, it's a constant work in progress. if you have money, choose something else. otherwise, wait for the it guys to fix what they broke with the last "improvement"
BEST EXTENSION EVER, been trying other options like this one and they all fall waaay behind so it's a god-sent monitor rather than me staying up all night for 1 notification haha thank you Neemb Web Services!!!!!
very user friendly, got it set up with ease.
a good extention this feature save my time so much
In the new update the popup notification shows the old value. For example, the tracked element is the number 5, which changed to 9. In the previous update, the popup notification displayed 9 — the new value of the element. In the current update, the notification shows the old value — 5. I couldn't find a setting to choose whether to display the new or old value in the notification. Please add such a setting. Thank you.
It does not work correctly. I tested it and launched it to check changes every 30 minutes. And this extension just pops up a notification every 30 minutes, no matter that there are no changes in the page. At least I choose to check just one phase on the page and get a notification every 30 minutes, when no changes in this phase again. It is not worth spending time
As an expertise, I can recommend that this extension is wonderful. This extension has been approved by Google. Congratulations!
Wow, amazing! I was able to order Tesla Model Y the one I wanted from the inventory to save money. They are gone almost immediately after they show up in the inventory list, so Distill really helped me with this. I was notified via email when the car showed up in the inventory and I quickly booked it online. A+++
Does not work. Error: Oops! Something went wrong! undefined
Doesn't work any more. When I click on the icon, it opens a little empty white square box, and does nothing else.
Very good tool, but aside from email notifications, and pop-ups on right side on windows no sound or anything to get notified, although a small alarm snooze would be good, like for 5 seconds, of until you cancel it, that is a good idea and you will always be alerted for changes in the sites or apps that you look the change to happen.
Anyone else getting phantom snoozed notifications? How can I switch that feature off? I only want real-time updates
Amazing free tool, perfect for my purposes.
Gets the job done, but often leaves tabs open in Chrome and really ruins the ability to 're-open last closed tab' by the way it operates. I would like it if that bug and UX problem could be addressed.
"Distill Web Monitor has crashed. Click this balloon to reload the extension." Distill crashing constantly on Vivaldi browser. The first start up of Distill always seem to work, then the subsequent will crash until browser is completely shut down and restarted.
Excellent solution for monitoring web sites for updates!
Can anyone tell me how this plug-in is being used for business purposes?
it needs some serious polishing. note to dev crew: if you have ever used "web xp" on android that is how element selection is supposed to be. it should automatically know to check list items. i have so many suggestions...but alas, until the element selection gets handled i can't go above 3 stars.
definitely 5 stars! this thing does exactly what i was looking for, in a discrete way (no need to enable On-all-sites 🙂).
simple, easy to use and works great
Is it free now or not?
It does not work anymore Edit: it was enough to disable/re-enable it and it started working again Great!
8/2024 This is a great program! But beware that some sites may hold a grudge on you for using it (they may see it as a spam bot etc ) and kick you off.. maybe forever.. or until you change your IP address. 6/2/22 Macro option requires paid subscription.
8/2024 This is a great program! But beware that some sites may hold a grudge on you for using it (they may see it as a spam bot etc ) and kick you off.. maybe forever.. or until you change your IP address. 6/2/22 Macro option requires paid subscription.
I have got my first notification it is a so usefull and free tool. Thank you developers!
This is an AMAZING broswer-extension, and I hope Distill never stops working. You can install it FREE here on Google Chrome, and also on Edge, Firefox, etc. It's better than FluxGuard, VisualPing, and WebAlert combined. As of early August 2024 they let you monitor up to 25 websites for free, of any changes that are made to them, and you can set the maximum "frequency alert rate" at 26 days. Hallelujiah!
Whats the chepeast plan if only using for Amazon Shopping. Id like to enable SMS Thanks
It's a great tool for a browser if you don't have to deal with dropdown menus that demand macros and other stuff to show any new results. It's a shame you really have to pay for a basic function like "Macros" and other stuff, like I know the developers really need money to survive in this capitalist word, however, this make Distill Web Monitor only available and really useful in situations like this one: when, for example, you like to watch the changes of a static page (and nothing else besides this). If you need to do something more advanced, get ready to pay a few dollars. And i'm not even american, at least they could make it affordable worldwide.
June 2024 Update: The page detection silently failed and never told me (error "SELECTION_EMPTY error encountered"). That's right, it fails in the background, and then never notifies the user. So when you think it's working fine, it's actually not. I discovered an important page had changed and I was like "Wait, why didn't Distill Web Monitor tell me? I spent all this time setting this up!" Turns out it's just designed like garbage. 1/5 stars. DO NOT USE. ________ Original Review: Keeps popping up windows and interrupting browsing experience.
June 2024 Update: The page detection silently failed and never told me (error "SELECTION_EMPTY error encountered"). That's right, it fails in the background, and then never notifies the user. So when you think it's working fine, it's actually not. I discovered an important page had changed and I was like "Wait, why didn't Distill Web Monitor tell me? I spent all this time setting this up!" Turns out it's just designed like garbage. 1/5 stars. DO NOT USE. ________ Original Review: Keeps popping up windows and interrupting browsing experience.
Excellent
I am having a problem on website when i click dates and save after shows empty
Wow! What a great extension! Monitoring page updates has never been so useful. Thank you for such a great development!
absolutely stunning piece of work. thank you for creating this beautiful extension. works a charm.
Does not work. Installed, set up monitor, observed change in target independently, still reports unchanged. Bye bye.
From time to time, the extension just deletes your watchlist for no reason. They probably want you the be annoyed enough and go with their cloud subscription. Lame. Also, this thing is crashing 20 times a day; can't imagine ppl actually pay for this pos.
From time to time, the extension just deletes your watchlist for no reason. They probably want you the be annoyed enough and go with their cloud subscription. Lame. Also, this thing is crashing 20 times a day; can't imagine ppl actually pay for this pos.
It's very easy to set up. I wish the free plan can support more than 25 monitors if I am using my own resources.
Doesn't work. Selects its own elements when trying to stop selecting page elements leading to a hung page requiring a page refresh (where you're once again stuck recording all clicks on elements…). This is when the Developer Tools panel is open.
its workable but like any other tool it fails miserably when any kind of captcha is present on a website. does not even have a ability to alert user that captcha showed up... there are hundreds tools that do same thing and all have problem with captcha at least other monitor have an option to alert you that captcha is blocking content from loading this one does not it just stop working...
I could not make it work for me...
Крайне полезное расширение. Пользуюсь уже много лет для слежения за обновлениями страничек авторов в самиздате и на Автор.Тудей.
Worked exactly as intended. I wanted to check if a link to sign up to an event had been updated, and had already spent 4 hours sporadically clicking the link without success, since each time new dates were released they were booked up within a minute. It was fairly easy to set up Distill to monitor the page I wanted, and I got Distill to check automatically every 10 seconds, which is possible even on the free version - you need to make sure you're logged in and then go on the page desired, and then click the extension (it took me a few tries but it worked in the end!). Within 30 minutes of downloading the Distill extension, I received a popup notification with a sound on my laptop, and an email saying the page had changed. This meant I could sign up to the event in seconds. Amazing.
Worked exactly as intended. I wanted to check if a link to sign up to an event had been updated, and had already spent 4 hours sporadically clicking the link without success, since each time new dates were released they were booked up within a minute. It was fairly easy to set up Distill to monitor the page I wanted, and I got Distill to check automatically every 10 seconds, which is possible even on the free version - you need to make sure you're logged in and then go on the page desired, and then click the extension (it took me a few tries but it worked in the end!). Within 30 minutes of downloading the Distill extension, I received a popup notification with a sound on my laptop, and an email saying the page had changed. This meant I could sign up to the event in seconds. Amazing.
Get Turkish language support.
Get Turkish language support.
Excelente, o único que funciona corretamente.
Перестало работать, не обновляется.
