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Comment by CaveTech | Hacker News Reader

Can I get a glimpse of what it looks like when the page changes? Can I see a diff of the page, or do I simply get an alert that it was changed?

This could be immensely useful to my company for another use case, but I really need to see what the output looks like.

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No problem. So remember you can add a page and have us notify you when the entire thing has changed. Or you can add a page, click "Show monitored area," click and drag over area you want to monitor, and you'll only be notified when that area changes. So:

1. You'll get an email letting you know that there has been a change with the image in the email.

2. You can sign in and you'll see a where these (0)'s are? Those will have the number of changes that have happened that you haven't seen yet. http://i.imgur.com/fmuqi8B.png

3. You click on that and you'll see the update (only shows scans when something has changed): http://i.imgur.com/t3lxmVN.png

4. You can compare that with the previous scan to see what changed if you haven't specified an area: http://i.imgur.com/VbP3dcu.png

We're adding several things to the next release though including more markup around what has changed, HTML diff, and an API.

Thanks a lot.

For our use case we for sure need HTML diffs and probably some sort of API. Support for postback URLs would be useful as well.

The products a bit underdeveloped for me to use currently, but I'll keep an eye on you guys. It's priced pretty competitively.

Hey we understand. This is just an MVP. We have a lot of stuff in the works and appreciate the feedback. It's very valuable.

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