WebChangeMonitor 23.05

WebChangeMonitor

Monitors allows you to quickly check a number of web pages and tracks changes based on the content of the web pages. Allows to monitor several protocols, including HTTP and HTTPS. Allows to view and record differences. Available for Win7/10, Linux and others.

WebChangeMonitor features:

Allows monitoring of web pages and informs about content changes
Indication of states of currently monitored items in the tool and taskbar
Reporting as sound and/or email as well as log file or HTML log
Several configuration / filter options
Support all protocols, e.g. http, https
Multi-threaded, running in the background
Bulk-import and bulk-export of items (from/to CSV) to monitor
Export of results to CSV file for further processing
Allows running command on items states and/or showing diff (changes) of content with preferred diff-tool ...and many more!
Open Source (C++, wxWidgets)
Cross platform for Windows (7/10), Linux, RPi and Mac (if self-compiled)

WebChangeMonitor 23.05 changelog:

fixed compilation error on *nix and removed experimental content from compilation
track and verify if enabling state-db was successful or not (also log)
move initialisation of toast notifications to a different place to be run only if required by setup
update libCURL to v8.1.1_1 (this is a bug-fix release)
implemented initial support for HTTP POST commands / queries
fixed FR#256: Not remembering the "Identify as" setting for "CURL" between sessions
allow to apply ignore/replace patters before and after content filter (or both), this also fixes FR#246: JSON/XPath Parser fails on content containing certain Unicode characters
allow to plot content history (value that is monitored though interpreter). This is a new feature and allows to track and plot prices, for example (or any values in general)
added forgotten reset (addition to previous commit)
reset result structure at the beginning of new check to also reset content
variable naming rules
allow interpreter to be used without checking for updates of interpreted values (to be used in plots soon)
implemented ability to track interpreted content (using Interpreter)
allows to record concrete numeric values of items (e.g. prices) over time
add statistics database version info to log
fixed UI glitch in config dialog in case statedb is enabled, HTML and ping log is still disabled as an option when entering the dialog
added further cURL internals to version info
add a list of CURL supported features (following supported protocols) to about screen
removed accidentally committed backup file
updated libJSONCons to v0.170.2
fixed issue that editor command does not resolve %content variable (i.e. in item content dialog)
ping error message: avoid having the same error message multiple times in one line
notification messages: make use of taskbar icon (OS default only)
notification messages: show an error in the logs in case technology / feature is not available
fix compilation error on 32 bit targets for stricter compilers
clean-up of order rules for includes also for compilation units (*.cpp)
clean-up of order rules for includes: wx, std, own AND includes then forward declarations
consistent order of includes / forward declarations
updated exception handler (exchndl) to v0.9.11
implemented more (OS native) options for tool tips
insert space between link and alternative link
include links to alternative item addresses into HTML logs (for ping and content)
fixed inability to un-select a tool in case its being removed from tool registry
fixed bug#254: Import from csv sets tag_stop="0"
improve German translation