Update Scanner AlternativesWebsite Monitoring Tools and other similar apps like Update Scanner

Update Scanner is described as 'Firefox extension to monitor web pages for updates. Useful for websites that dont provide Atom or RSS feeds' and is a website monitoring tool in the news & books category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Update Scanner for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, Windows, SaaS and iPhone apps. The best Update Scanner alternative is Huginn, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Update Scanner are Distill Web Monitor, Visualping, WebSite-Watcher and Web Alert.

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  1. Huginn icon
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    Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph.

    97 Huginn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Slack
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  2. Distill is a web monitoring tool. It can monitor RSS feeds, a webpage or a part of webpage. Alerts in the form of pop-up, audio or emails can be received.

    77 Distill Web Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  3. Visualping icon
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    Visualping is the easiest to use website change monitoring, website change detector and website change alert software of the web. Contrary to other website change monitoring software like ChangeDetector, Versionista, Page Monitor, it tracks and detect visual webpage changes and...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  4. WebSite-Watcher icon
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    WebSite-Watcher detects website updates and highlights all changes in the text. WebSite-Watcher monitors web pages, password protected pages, discussion forums and much more.

    120 WebSite-Watcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Web Alert icon
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    Web Alert enables you to monitor any website for changes (even when a login, a form post or password prompt is necessary to access the site). You can get notified when a price changes, a new article is published, you receive exam results or an answer in a forum, a registration...

    54 Web Alert alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  6. Wachete icon
     18 likes

    Track web page changes and get notified. Free Sign-up. Have all data in one place

    79 Wachete alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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  7. Create automatic monitors for detecting and scanning changes on web pages, evaluate content based on conditions you define and trigger actions such as notifications, sounds, emails etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Waterfox
    • Brave
    • Firefox
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  8. Fluxguard icon
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    Fluxguard uses Google headless Chrome to monitor entire sites for changes. It provides 3 different levels of change monitoring, pixel change detecting comparing screenshots, code-level comparison of the rendered DOM, and extracted text comparison.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. HARPA AI icon
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    Automate monitoring product prices, in-stock, competitors, SERP. Extract data and leads to spreadsheets. Turn websites into APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
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  10. SiteDelta icon
     3 likes

    SiteDelta is an Add-on for old versions of Mozilla Firefox (before the introduction of WebExtensions).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Google Chrome
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  11. WebMonitors is a cloud-based SaaS platform for monitoring website changes. It allows users to track modifications to any webpage, including those behind logins, by monitoring specific elements like text, images, and HTML.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. Monitoro icon
     2 likes

    Monitor webpages and receive freshly scraped data everytime the page changes to a webhook of your choice.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • AWS CloudFormation
    • Kubernetes
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Terraform
    • Docker Swarm
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