Follow Links
The Follow-Links feature lets you monitor a whole site instead of single pages. For the Follow-Links feature you have to enter a start page which is also called Master-Bookmark. All links in the checked pages are inserted as new bookmarks automatically. The Follow-Links configuration must only be made in the Master-Bookmark, all automatically inserted bookmarks will use the configuration from the Master-Bookmark.
It's recommended to put each Master-Bookmark into a separate folder!
- Link depth
The link depth defines the depth that WebSite-Watcher should follow. A link depth of 1 means that WebSite-Watcher will follow only links from the current page. With a link depth of 2 WebSite-Watcher will also follow links from linked pages, etc...
- Copy all bookmark properties when inserting new bookmarks
By default (without that option) only the most important bookmark properties are copied to new, inserted bookmarks. If this option is enabled, nearly all bookmark properties from the source bookmark are used in the new, inserted bookmarks.
- Don't follow links which contain one of the following strings
With this setting, new bookmarks will NOT be inserted if the link address contains one of the entered strings. Enter one string per line, all strings are case insensitive. The entered strings are "sub-strings", Wildcards or Regular Expressions are not supported.
Examples are:
.zip
.exe
.pdf
/adv/
- Only follow links which contain one of the following strings
With this setting, new bookmarks will only be inserted if the link address contains one of the entered strings. Enter one string per line, all strings are case insensitive. The entered strings are "sub-strings", Wildcards or Regular Expressions are not supported.
Examples are:
techinfo
forum_data
- Advanced / Ignore parts from an URL when checking if an URL already exists
If an URL contains a changing Session-ID it will be inserted each time you check the site. To prevent that behavior, you can define regular expressions to exclude parts of an URL when WebSite-Watcher checks if a bookmark already exists. Enter one regular expression per line.
Examples are:
?.* - filters everything after the question mark
&s=.*?& - filters the parameter &s= until the next ampersand, for example &s=hasdqwe79a8sd798&
&sid=[a-z|1-9]* - filters a session id with characters a-z and digits
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