Distill Web Monitor

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Extension status: Featured
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Description from extension meta

Monitor webpage or feed for changes. Get SMS and email alerts on change detection.

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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

mouad sahel 2025-10-24: Awesome extension! was very helpful for me
Smith Tom 2025-10-20: It is easy to use and solves a big problem. It is also stable and reliable during trial.
Lennart Nilsen 2025-10-19: Wouldn't it be great if it could actually monitor a number and not just text
H 2025-10-15: Excellent! Does the job well 👍
Leyuan H 2025-09-14: very useful
Massimiliano G 2025-09-07: 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.
Moore Drever 2025-09-04: 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"
Aurelia Monica S. 2025-08-27: 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!!!!!
Luke Fleming 2025-08-11: very user friendly, got it set up with ease.
Trakarn Traiphichiensuk 2025-07-28: a good extention this feature save my time so much
Назар Карандашов 2025-07-07: 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.
Lenas Mini Land 2025-05-30: 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
user 2025-05-08: As an expertise, I can recommend that this extension is wonderful. This extension has been approved by Google. Congratulations!
Slava Borodin 2025-04-01: 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+++
Fabricio TST 2025-03-21: Does not work. Error: Oops! Something went wrong! undefined
Paul Dowsett 2025-03-11: Doesn't work any more. When I click on the icon, it opens a little empty white square box, and does nothing else.
SkypredatorGaming 2025-02-26: 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.
Jamleck Muriuki 2025-02-10: Anyone else getting phantom snoozed notifications? How can I switch that feature off? I only want real-time updates
Daniel Asaturov 2025-01-15: Amazing free tool, perfect for my purposes.
NJ 2025-01-13: 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.
Alex 2024-12-14: "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.
James Gentes 2024-12-12: Excellent solution for monitoring web sites for updates!
Mark Lewyn 2024-12-07: Can anyone tell me how this plug-in is being used for business purposes?
Brad Belikove 2024-11-20: 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.
Pieter Duijves 2024-10-22: definitely 5 stars! this thing does exactly what i was looking for, in a discrete way (no need to enable On-all-sites 🙂).
Andrés Blanco 2024-09-07: simple, easy to use and works great
Jaydeep Patel 2024-08-22: Is it free now or not?
Solax Bit 2024-08-09: It does not work anymore Edit: it was enough to disable/re-enable it and it started working again Great!
Pat MySecret 2024-08-06: 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.
Pat MySecret 2024-08-06: 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.
Edel Reister 2024-08-05: I have got my first notification it is a so usefull and free tool. Thank you developers!
Right On Track 2024-08-04: 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!
012wtf EZ 2024-07-13: Whats the chepeast plan if only using for Amazon Shopping. Id like to enable SMS Thanks
Victor 2024-06-29: 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.
Anonymous 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.
Anonymous 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.
Rita Araujo 2024-05-31: Excellent
imran mehmood 2024-05-30: I am having a problem on website when i click dates and save after shows empty
Adalberto Fontenele 2024-05-08: Wow! What a great extension! Monitoring page updates has never been so useful. Thank you for such a great development!
Georgia Watt 2024-04-25: absolutely stunning piece of work. thank you for creating this beautiful extension. works a charm.
Chet Seidel 2024-04-16: Does not work. Installed, set up monitor, observed change in target independently, still reports unchanged. Bye bye.
Tanges Yukon 2024-03-12: 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.
Tanges Yukon 2024-03-12: 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.
J Chan 2024-03-01: 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.
Dave Myron 2024-01-28: 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.
Tom Wid 2023-12-23: 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...
Chinmay Routray 2023-12-11: I could not make it work for me...
Max Mustermann 2023-10-17: Крайне полезное расширение. Пользуюсь уже много лет для слежения за обновлениями страничек авторов в самиздате и на Автор.Тудей.
Laura Meier 2023-08-08: 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.
Laura Meier 2023-08-08: 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.

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