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
- (2024-08-06) Pat MySecret: 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.
- (2024-06-18) 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.
- (2024-03-12) Tanges Yukon: 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.
- (2023-10-17) Max Mustermann: Крайне полезное расширение. Пользуюсь уже много лет для слежения за обновлениями страничек авторов в самиздате и на Автор.Тудей.
- (2023-08-08) Laura Meier: 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.
- (2023-07-10) Recep HARBUTOĞLU: Get Turkish language support.
- (2023-06-26) Bruno Dimeira: Excelente, o único que funciona corretamente.
- (2023-06-21) Maxim M.: Перестало работать, не обновляется.
- (2023-06-14) Сергей Бузунов: супер, все работает! спасибо!
- (2023-06-06) Ритуал TV: В видео показываю с какой проблемой сталкнулся https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNZamwcIydQ
- (2023-05-26) Viet Nam Home-Tech: goood ddd
- (2023-05-06) Paolo Rava: una schifezza, quando doveva avvisarmi non lo ha fatto. ma chi sviluppa sta spazzatura inutile non ha nient altro da fare?
- (2023-04-06) Sirio Alieghieri: Ottima applicazione, facile da configurare ed efficace!
- (2023-03-31) Eder Caboclo: Excelente extensão! Mantenham e aperfeiçoem sempre. Uma ferramenta dessas é de fundamental importância para monitoramento de informações em tempo real. Parabéns aos desenvolvedores. Tem minhas 5 estrelas.
- (2023-03-29) Fernanda González: Es muy útil para quien trabaja usando Zendesk, que orginalmente no notifica cuando llega algún ticket, pero con esta extensión ya no es más necesario actualizar manualmente, hace todo mucho más fácil y es 100% confiable!
- (2023-03-11) Augusto Oliveira: Perfeitamente funcional. Ótima extensão para produtividade.
- (2023-02-14) Saleh Alanazi: As a fellow extension developer, I can't thank you enough
- (2023-01-18) Gabriel Doria: Amazing!!
- (2023-01-12) Mark L: Had a prior web page search program that relied on ITFFF to send me an email notification but ITFFF doesn't seem to support that search program any longer. Distill Web Monitor has a built in email notification capability along with others. I checked out the email alert and it worked great. It also incorporates REGEX for extracting numbers from selected fields that have other non numeric characters. Support is first class in that I got a solution to an issue had within 24 hours.
- (2022-12-29) Raul H: Llevo mucho tiempo usándola y me ha ahorrado mucho dinero vigilando precios. Funciona de 10 y con buen soporte de ayuda.
- (2022-11-30) Martin Kubirita: best Web site watcher, support is also perfect they help me when i wasnt know how to use something =)
- (2022-11-21) Arturo Vivó: Can't select email. Email/Select email/Manage List/Loading
- (2022-11-10) k: モニターとして優秀 課金金額も納得
- (2022-10-27) Richard: Limited to only 25 items on your watch list even if you're using only your computer resources (non-cloud). Seems ridiculous that the software limits the number of items considering I'm not using your servers.
- (2022-10-25) Denny Lenselink: What an amazing extension! Tried the Website-Watcher application but this is far more convenient. Thanks.
- (2022-10-10) Zrck_069: 5 yıldız + 10 yüz bin milyon baloncuk
- (2022-10-07) Sergey M: На сайте DNS не работает, цены не обновляет, ошибка все время.
- (2022-09-15) Юрий Нагаевский: Все отлично работает
- (2022-09-05) Matt Bevis: Distill is an essential tool for anyone who needs to be the first one to know about anything changing on the internet. It's loaded with features you didn't even realize you needed until you get started using it. The best!
- (2022-09-03) blade height: 数ある更新チェッカーの類でベスト。チェック条件をGUIで細かく作り込める上に、自分のPCで走らせる事が可能なためフリープランでも使い倒せる。有料プランだと差分の履歴が見れるようになったり通知方法の選択肢が増え更に便利。
- (2022-09-02) V D: Does excactly what is needed, I hope to get the android version to further benifit from it.
- (2022-09-02) Jerome: The best one, and with a great support team !
- (2022-09-01) qwerty: Великолепное расширение, наверное самое лучшее из тех, которые я когда либо в своей жизни устанавливал. Расширение мониторит изменения выделенной вами области в сайте, либо всего сайта, и в случае этого изменения может отправить вам СМС на телефон, сообщение в дискорде, уведомление на телефон ну или банальное оповещение вас звуком на компьютер. Это произведение искусства сэкономит вам немало времени, если вы такой параноик как я, который в ожидании изменения на странице будет часами её перезагружать. Безусловно, расширение не идеально, и вероятно будет работать не на всех страницах.
- (2022-08-24) Eric Van de Kerckhove: Does exactly what it needs to do, no less, no more. Perfectly fits my purpose!
- (2022-08-22) 山岚: Why does setting Chinese not take effect? Still in English
- (2022-03-19) Thiago Comitra: Amazing
- (2022-03-17) Akki S: Exactly what I am looking for, using it 24/7. Will edit to 5 stars once Android app is out.
- (2022-03-17) Антон Тройнин: Great extension! Does exactly what I want.
- (2022-03-14) Shinji Otani: Web で公開される、先着順で受注できる仕事をいち早く発見できるように導入しました。 自分で何度も確認する必要がなくなって助かります。
- (2022-03-10) Pieniu trenuje: It's really helpful extension.
- (2022-03-08) Andrew Cole: Works great. Takes a little trial and error to know what items to select for monitoring, but once you figure that out, it works great. Plenty of options and customization for any user!
- (2022-03-06) Kaz: ページチェックにはかかせない、とても素晴らしい機能拡張! 【2022.03.04】 Chrome 99.0.4844.51 アップデート後、不安定に。というかほとんど動かない。何か解決策ありますでしょうか。
- (2022-03-03) Aleksey Kislov: Everything was okay until the recent update. Now when using sticky window the extension focuses that window every time it performs a check, which is pretty much makes it unusable for me.
- (2022-03-01) Jayakrishnan KP: Love it
- (2022-03-01) Ilysia: Unfortunately since the 1.20 version they are a lot of website who don't work with the message "Unknown Error", they worked perfectly before.
- (2022-02-20) Krzysztof Murawski: Latest version is much worse than previous one, some features were removed, translation is full of errors. Can I somehow revert to old versions?
- (2022-02-19) M Hebert: Works great on chrome. Next I'm testing the android app. You guys sure have put a lot of thought into this. Thanks!
- (2022-02-13) Stefan Schulz: A great monitoring tool that's working perfectly here. Recommended.
- (2022-02-09) Tobias Callister: Works like a charm!
- (2022-02-08) David Lappin: Very helpful tool for monitoring sites for changes. Takes some trial and error to get the check options set up and working to give you alerts you want and not false alerts you don't want, and it is site specific on how that site operates. But Distill.io monitors are a huge beneficial edge and time saver when you get them working the way you want.