What can be checked
WebSite-Watcher can monitor a lot of different file types and pages listed below:
- Any kind of web page with textual content, independent from the file extension. That means both, static pages (pages with file extension .htm or .html) and dynamic pages (pages with file extension .asp, .php, etc). WebSite-Watcher will also highlight all changes in the text.
- RSS/Atom feeds: RSS/Atom feeds are converted to a readable html format and can be handled as normal web page.
- Pages behind a login: For password protected pages you can record a Check-Macro which is executed when the page is checked for updates.
- Forums: Forums are handled as normal web pages with several optimizations, for example a special technique to highlight changes.
- Pages with Javascript: For pages where the content is displayed with Javascript, WebSite-Watcher supports a separate and more complex technology to convert the dynamically generated page content into a static content.
- Images: If you monitor an image, WebSite-Watcher is able to detect if an image has been updated. Changes within an image are not highlighted.
- Binary files: WebSite-Watcher is able to detect updates of binary files (for example zip or exe files) by comparing the file date, the file size and/or parts of the content (binary files won't be downloaded completely when they are checked for updates).
- PDF and Flash files: PDF files and Flash animations are handled as binary files. WebSite-Watcher is not able to highlight changes in the content.
- FTP files and directories: WebSite-Watcher supports monitoring of FTP files and directories. FTP files can be checked by file date/size or by content.
- Intranet: All pages in an intranet can be checked like normal web pages.
- Locally saved files: WebSite-Watcher can monitor each file on your local hard disk.