Monitor websites for changes with no code

Yes, you can track website changes directly in a Google Sheet using our Google Sheets integration.

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When you set up a monitor for your robot, all detected changes will automatically sync to your connected Google Sheet, keeping your data always up to date.

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Here's how to set it up:

1. Create and approve a robot that extracts and scrapes the data you want to monitor.
2. Go to the "Integrate" tab and select Google Sheets.
3. Click "Enable Syncing to Google Sheet" and authorize your Google account.
4. Choose an existing spreadsheet or create a new one.
5. Select which data you want to sync:
   
   • Changed or added data
   • Only changed data
   • Only added data
6. Set up a monitor for your robot to check for changes on your schedule.

Each time your robot detects a change, it will automatically update your Google Sheet with the new data.

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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.
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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, clicking on toggles, etc.
• Examples of what you can monitor, scrape or extract 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 hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly.
• 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 will compare each new extraction or scrape with the previous result.
• The change detection system will mark 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 50,000+ 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.
• The monitoring system can detect and notify you on many types of website changes including:
  
  • Text content changes on a website or web page.
  • New items being added to a list on a webpage.
  • Items being removed from a list on a webpage.
  • Position changes from a list (or results page).
  • Visual changes to entire web pages.
  • Visual changes to specific parts of a web page.

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Step 4: Manage your change detection data

• All of the data that is 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 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 (trigger monitors to run, pull monitor data, and more).
• You can integrate this data into 7,000+ tools and apps including:
  
  • Sync all monitored website data into a Google Sheet or Airtable.
  • Create automations and workflows with Zapier, Make.com, or Pabbly

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

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With the free plan you get:

• 50 credits per month - this means you can monitor up to 500 rows of data for free from standard websites.
• 2 domains - you can create unlimited website monitoring robots for two domains.
• Full access to our website monitoring tool including:
  
  • Set up monitors with custom schedules (hourly, daily, weekly).
  • Receive email notifications when changes are detected.
  • View historical data and changes.
  • Access your monitored web data through our dashboard where you can export or integrate that data into your workflows.

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 (i.e. sites with advanced security that cost more to scrape) require 2-10 credits per check.

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Do I need a credit card to sign up for your free monitoring tool? 

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

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I need a complex website monitoring solution, or have an enterprise website monitoring use case!

While signing up for our no code website monitoring tool is a great option to validate for simple use cases, if you are looking for a scaled or complex solution we offer a Premium plan.

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This plan is designed for enterprises and businesses looking for high complexity, high volume, or highly services solutions. If you're interested in learnings more, talk to our sales team.

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

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How to set up website monitoring alerts

When you set up a monitor, you can configure email notifications to alert you about specific types of changes:

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

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

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What information is in the website monitor alerts?

These emails alert you not only to 'if' a change has occurred, but will 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 (no coding needed). Here's how:

1. 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 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.
2. Add a monitor
   
   • Go to your robot's detail page and select the "Monitor" tab.
   • Click "Create new monitor".
3. Configure monitoring schedule
   
   • Choose how often to check for changes (hourly, daily, weekly, or custom).
   • Select specific days of the week if needed.
   • Set a specific time of day or choose "Anytime".
4. Set up notification preferences
   
   • Check "Notify me by email if there is a change in captured text".
   • Set screenshot notification threshold if monitoring visual changes.
5. Save your monitor
   
   • Click "Save" to activate your monitor.
   • Your robot will now automatically check for changes based on your schedule.

Tip: For monitoring multiple pages with similar structures, you can reuse the same robot with different Origin URLs by using the Bulk Monitor tool to track up to 50,000 URLs at once.

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Your monitor will now run automatically according to your schedule, alerting you when changes are detected on the monitored page.

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

Detects and monitors text content changes on a web page:

• 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

Detects and monitors list item changes:

• New items added to a list (like 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, ex: from 1st to 8th)
  

Detects visual changes on a webpage:

• Changes to an entire web page.
• Changes to a specific part of a web page.
• Can configure change alert and detection for visual changes based on the 'size' of the change.

Structural content changes on a page:

• 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 is trained to capture what specific changes have occurred, and (based on your notification preferences) alert you of these changes.

1. Change detection to web pages:
   
   • Your robot checks for changes according to your monitoring schedule.
   • It compares the newly extracted data with previous versions.
   • If it detects that there's been a change to that website content, those changes are identified and categorized as new, modified, or deleted content.
2. Highlighting to you 'what' has changed:
   
   • Changes are color-coded in your Browse AI dashboard:
     
     • 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 (e.g., -2 means the item moved up 2 positions).
3. Notification delivery
   
   • If enabled, you receive an email notification containing details about the detected changes.
   • The email shows exactly what changed with color highlighting.
4. 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 leverages machine learning and AI to be easy to use, reliable to scale, and seamless to integrate.

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Start monitoring any website in minutes with zero code

• You can train a web monitoring robot in minutes by simply pointing and clicking to structure the data you want to monitor.
• You can also train the robot to monitor specific text or data, as well as capture and monitor screenshots (either full page screenshot, or a specific part of the page).
• Once trained, you can configure your web monitoring robot to:
  
  • How frequently your robot monitors that website content for changes (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly).
  • What the 'threshold' of website change needed.
  • Your custom alert and notification settings.

Scale your website monitoring reliably

• Once you train a robot to monitor a webpage, you can upload a list of additional URLs with the same structure to automatically train up to 50,000 robots to monitor similar pages.
• Create workflows and automations to monitor page and sub pages based on website changes throughout a website.
• Full website monitoring with multi-page monitoring, and change detection.
• Monitor dynamic content by training your robot to monitor for content generated by clicks, drop-downs, and form fills.
• Geolocation-based monitoring for region-specific content. Set the location of your monitors to see how the content changes based on location.
• Traditional monitoring or web scraping tools (including python code) break when websites change. With Browse AI, your robot automatically adapts its underlying code to website changes. No more broken web monitors, or web scrapers.

Structured website data monitoring, extraction, and scraping

• Create monitors and scrapers to extracts specific structured data points, rather than just detecting generic changes.
• Monitors specific and structured website elements including prices, inventory, descriptions, and more.
• Captures both text and visual changes (i.e. screenshots) to give you full website monitoring capabilites.

Website change detection reporting

• Color-coded change detection (green for new, yellow for modified, red for removed), to show you what specficially changed.
• For monitoring lists on websites, position tracking for list items to see 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 7,000+ tools and apps

• Integrate your website monitoring directly into Google Sheets and Airtable.
• Export your monitoring data into a CSV, JSON, or AWS S3.
• Connections to 7,000+ 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).

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When your web monitor detects changes on a website, you can receive immediate email notifications.

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Here's how to set up instant alerts for when a website or webpage changes:

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

These instant alerts will include:

• Alert you that the website content or web page that you're monitoring has changed.
• Give you details about 'what' specifically changed based on the data you're monitoring.
• Color-coded highlighting (green for new content, yellow for changes, red for deleted content).

For even more immediate notifications or custom alert channels, you can use these integration options:

• Set up a webhook to trigger custom notifications, or integrate your website monitoring robot via our REST API.
• Create a Zapier integration to send alerts to Slack, SMS, or other platforms.
• Use Make.com or Pabbly Connect to build custom notification workflows.

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