UpdatePatrol detailed features

There are many good reasons to use UpdatePatrol to watch the Internet for you:

• Monitor an unlimited number of sites (single pages or entire web sites), saving you time visiting sites where the content has not been updated since your last visit.
• Detect changes in ordinary web pages and text files.
• Detect changes in PDF files
• Detect changes in web pages that use HTML Frames.
• Detect changes in blogs (news feeds) in RSS, RDF and Atom formats - you no longer need to have a feed reader installed.
• Detect changes in password protected web pages (HTTP authentication supported).
• Detect changes in page text and optionally changed links.
• Detect added or removed links and frames.
• Browse the sites using the embedded browser with the changes highlighted, saving you countless hours of reading as the changed text stands out from the text you already read.
• Alert you of found updates by desktop notification, sound or email.
• Automatically save a copy of the changed page to disk.
• See text that was removed or changed within a page as well as newly added text.
• Ignore dynamic data in page comparisons, e.g. number of visitors, dates, timestamps etc. This is configurable using regular expressions (a pattern matching syntax) for maximum flexibility.
• Organize websites in groups in a tree structure as you know it from your web browser bookmarks and Windows Explorer.
• Use automated web page update checking at scheduled intervals or manual checking when you need it for single sites, all sites or a group of sites.
• Use shared (user definable) schedules to check groups of sites with the same interval, or use a custom per-site schedule.
• Schedule checks every X minutes, every hour, at a certain time every day, at a certain time at a certain day of the week or at a certain time one day each month.
• Drag a URL to the Drop Window to quickly add the URL to UpdatePatrol. Works with Internet Explorer, Firefox and other web browsers.