Monitor websites for changes and updates automatically.

Yes, you can track website changes directly in a Google Sheet using our Google Sheets integration. When you set up a monitor for your robot, all detected changes will automatically sync to your connected Google Sheet, keeping your data instantly up to date.

Once this is set up, each time your robot detects a change, it will automatically update your Google Sheet with the new data.

Browse AI's monitoring tool automatically tracks changes on a website by running your robot on a schedule you define and notifying you when changes are detected.

Step 1: Train your robot to monitor and scrape the specific data you want.

• Create a robot to scrape, extract and monitor data from a specific webpage.
• You can train it to extract and monitor text, lists, and screenshots.
• Robots can also be trained to scrape and monitor dynamic data including pagination, unlimited scrolling, filling out forms, and clicking on toggles.
• Examples of what you can monitor include product prices, inventory levels, job listings, or any other web page content. Basically anything a human could manually monitor on a web page, you can train a robot to do.

Step 2: Configure your web monitoring

• Once you train your web monitoring robot, you can set up a monitor to review that content by the minute, hour, day, week, or month, with advanced RRULE scheduling for irregular intervals and specific dates.
• You can also set up alerts and notifications based on these changes.

Step 3: Manage your website monitoring and change detection system

• When a change is detected, the web monitoring system compares each new extraction with the previous result.
• The change detection system marks each change using a color-coded system: green for new content, yellow for content that has changed, and red for content that has been removed.
• You'll be notified of these website changes based on your notification settings.
• You can turn on bulk monitoring to monitor website changes across up to 500,000 pages at once.
• Upload a list of URLs to monitor into your configured robot to automatically monitor and scrape thousands of webpages.
• Create workflows to monitor entire websites by connecting robots together.

Step 4: Manage your change detection data

• All of the data captured by your change detection robot is stored in your Browse AI account, giving you a historical database of all changes and website content.
• You can export this data as a CSV, JSON, or to AWS S3.
• You can access this data via API or webhook.
• You can connect your change detection robot to your own system, tools or products via our REST API, to trigger monitors to run, pull monitor data, and more.
• You can sync monitored website data into Google Sheets or Airtable, and build automations with Zapier, Make.com, or Pabbly Connect.

Yes, Browse AI offers a free plan that includes website monitoring capabilities.

With the free plan you get:

• 50 credits per month, which means you can monitor up to 500 rows of data for free from standard websites.
• 2 domains, and you can create unlimited website monitoring robots for those two domains.
• Full access to our website monitoring tool, including custom schedules (minute, hourly, daily, weekly), email notifications when changes are detected, historical data and changes, and dashboard access to export or integrate your monitored web data.

How do credits work?

Each monitoring check uses credits based on the amount and cost of the data extracted. For standard websites, it costs 1 credit to extract up to 10 rows of data or capture one screenshot. Premium sites, meaning sites with advanced security that cost more to scrape, require 2 to 10 credits per check.

Do I need a credit card to sign up?

No credit card is required to sign up for the free plan.

I need a complex or enterprise website monitoring solution

Signing up for our no-code website monitoring tool is a great option to validate simple use cases. If you are looking for a scaled or complex solution, we offer a Premium plan designed for enterprises and businesses with high complexity, high volume, or highly serviced needs. If you're interested in learning more, talk to our sales team.

Browse AI's website monitoring alerts notify you when changes are detected on the web pages you're monitoring.

How to set up website monitoring alerts

• Go to your robot's Monitor tab.
• Click Create new monitor, or edit an existing one.
• Check Notify me by email if there is a change in captured text.
• Set additional notification preferences if needed.
• Save your monitor settings.

Once configured, you'll receive email alerts whenever your robot detects changes during its scheduled monitoring runs.

What information is in the website monitor alerts?

These emails alert you not only to whether a change has occurred, but highlight exactly what changed on the web page:

• Green: new content has been added.
• Yellow: existing content that has been changed or modified.
• Red: content that has been removed.

Set up advanced notifications and workflows via integrations

For more advanced notification workflows, you can integrate with tools like Zapier, Make.com, or Pabbly Connect to:

• Send notifications to Slack or other messaging platforms.
• Create tasks in project management tools.
• Trigger custom workflows based on specific changes.
• Send SMS alerts for critical changes.

Setting up a web page monitor on Browse AI is easy, with no coding needed. Here's how:

Create or select a robot

• Build a new robot by clicking Build New Robot on your dashboard.
• Choose Monitor site changes if you're creating one specifically for monitoring.
• Navigate to the website you want to monitor.
• Extract the specific data you want to track using Capture Text or Capture List.
• Approve your robot after reviewing the extracted data.

Add a monitor

• Go to your robot's detail page and select the Monitor tab.
• Click Create new monitor.

Configure monitoring schedule

• Choose how often to check for changes: minute, hourly, daily, weekly, or custom RRULE schedules for irregular intervals and specific dates.
• Select specific days of the week if needed.
• Set a specific time of day or choose Anytime.

Set up notification preferences and save

• Check Notify me by email if there is a change in captured text.
• Set a screenshot notification threshold if monitoring visual changes.
• Click Save to activate your monitor.

Tip: for monitoring multiple pages with similar structures, reuse the same robot with different Origin URLs using the Bulk Monitor tool to track up to 500,000 URLs at once.

Browse AI's monitoring system can track and detect any change to a web page that a human could, including text changes, visual changes, structural changes, and list item changes.

Text content changes

• New text added to a web page.
• Existing text on a page has changed.
• Text that has been removed or deleted.
• Text position has changed within a page.

List item changes

• New items added to a list, such as products, job listings, or search results.
• Existing list items changed with updated information.
• Items removed or deleted from a list.
• Items changing position within a list, tracked with position indicators, for example from 1st to 8th.

Visual changes

• Changes to an entire web page.
• Changes to a specific part of a web page.
• Alert thresholds you can configure based on the size of the visual change.

Structural content changes

• New sections added to a page.
• Sections removed from a page.
• Content structures reorganized or moved around.

All changes are highlighted using a color-coded system

• Green: new content that wasn't present previously.
• Yellow: existing content that has been modified.
• Red: content that has been removed.

When content updates on a page you're monitoring with Browse AI, your robot captures what specific changes have occurred and, based on your notification preferences, alerts you to those changes.

Change detection

• Your robot checks for changes according to your monitoring schedule.
• It compares the newly extracted data with previous versions.
• Detected changes are identified and categorized as new, modified, or deleted content.

Highlighting what has changed

• Green: new content has been added.
• Yellow: existing content that has been modified or changed.
• Red: content that has been removed or deleted.
• Position changes in lists are indicated with numbers, for example -2 means the item moved up 2 positions.

Notification delivery

• If enabled, you receive an email notification containing details about the detected changes.
• The email shows exactly what changed with color highlighting.

Historical web page change log

• All changes, and historical versions of that web page or data, are stored in your Browse AI account's history.
• You can view the complete history of a specific web page and its data over time.
• The data is accessible through your robot's History tab or Tables view.
• You can export or integrate this data into your existing tools, apps, or workflows.

Unlike traditional web monitoring tools, Browse AI uses machine learning and AI to be easy to use, reliable to scale, and seamless to integrate.

Start monitoring any website in minutes with zero code

• Train a web monitoring robot in minutes: point it at the page and AI structures the data you want to monitor.
• Train the robot to monitor specific text or data, and to capture and monitor screenshots, either full page or a specific part of the page.
• Configure how frequently your robot monitors that content: minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or a custom RRULE schedule.
• Set the threshold of website change needed, plus your custom alert and notification settings.

Scale your website monitoring reliably

• Once you train a robot to monitor a webpage, upload a list of additional URLs with the same structure to monitor up to 500,000 similar pages.
• Create workflows and automations to monitor pages and sub pages across a website.
• Monitor dynamic content by training your robot to handle clicks, drop-downs, and form fills.
• Geolocation-based monitoring for region-specific content. Set the location of your monitors to see how content changes by location.
• Traditional monitoring or scraping tools, including Python scripts, break when websites change. With Browse AI, your robot adapts to most changes and alerts you on major redesigns.

Structured website data monitoring and extraction

• Create monitors that extract specific structured data points, rather than just detecting generic changes.
• Monitor specific structured website elements including prices, inventory, descriptions, and more.
• Capture both text and visual changes to give you full website monitoring coverage.

Website change detection reporting

• Color-coded change detection: green for new, yellow for modified, red for removed.
• For monitoring lists, position tracking shows what has moved up or down.
• Every website monitor run is saved, giving you a historical database of all website changes for trend analysis.

Integrate with thousands of tools and apps

• Integrate your website monitoring directly into Google Sheets and Airtable.
• Export your monitoring data into a CSV, JSON, or AWS S3.
• Connect to thousands of apps through Zapier, Make.com, and Pabbly Connect.
• Turn any website into an API with our REST API, where you can trigger a monitor, pull data from a monitor, and more.
• Access any change detection data via webhook to integrate into your tools and systems.

Yes, Browse AI offers instant alerts for web page change detection, based on your notification preferences. When your web monitor detects changes on a website, you can receive immediate email notifications.

Here's how to set up instant alerts for when a web page changes:

• Create and approve your robot for the website you want to monitor.
• Go to the Monitor tab.
• Click Create new monitor, or edit an existing one.
• Check the box that says Notify me by email if there is a change in captured text.
• Save your monitor settings.

These instant alerts include:

• What specifically changed on the page, highlighted by color.
• The previous value and the new value for each changed field.
• A timestamp for when the change was detected.
• A link back to the full data in your Browse AI account.