WebSite-Watcher supports the following three types of wildcard filters. Only one wildcard character is allowed per filter expression.


  • *EndText
    This form filters everything from the beginning of the page up to the first occurrence of "EndText".
    For example: *Daily News

  • StartText*EndText
    This form filters all text areas that begin with "StartText" and end with "EndText".
    For example: Downloads:*Publisher

  • StartText*
    This form filters everything from the last occurrence of "StartText" to the end of the page.
    For example: Users online*


All defined wildcard filters are case insensitive and are internally converted to lowercase.