By default, you must create a separate Bookmark for each page that you want to monitor.


If you want to monitor an entire site instead of individual pages, use the Follow Links feature. This feature automatically inserts all links from a page as new Bookmarks. Various options allow you to define how many links or which links are inserted, for example by specifying the link depth.


Follow Links requires a Master-Bookmark that serves as the root for all automatically inserted child Bookmarks. Master Bookmarks display the icon follow_links before the Bookmark name and are usually sorted before all other Bookmarks.


For all child Bookmarks, the Follow Links configuration is disabled. Changes to the Follow Links configuration can be made only in Master-Bookmarks.


It is recommended to place each Master-Bookmark in a separate folder.

Options

  • Link depth
    The link depth defines how deep WebSite-Watcher follows links. A link depth of 1 means that WebSite-Watcher follows only links on the current page. A link depth of 2 means that WebSite-Watcher also follows links on linked pages, and so on.

  • Copy all bookmark properties when inserting new bookmarks
    By default, only the most important Bookmark properties are copied to automatically inserted Bookmarks. If this option is enabled, almost all Bookmark properties of the source Bookmark are copied to the new Bookmarks.

  • Delete no longer linked pages every X days
    This option automatically detects and deletes pages that are no longer linked from the Bookmark list. Because this process can take some time, you can define how often it should be performed. You can also perform this operation manually by right-clicking a Master-Bookmark in the Bookmark list and selecting the appropriate command from the context menu.

Do not follow links that contain any of these strings

With this option, new Bookmarks are not inserted if a link address contains at least one of the specified strings. Enter one string per line. All strings are case-insensitive and are treated as substrings. Regular Expressions with the function regex(...) and date variables are supported. Wildcards or other regular expression functions besides regex(...) are not supported, for example StartToRegex.


Examples:

.zip
.exe
/adv/
regex(/example\d+/)

Only follow links that contain any of these strings

With this option, new Bookmarks are inserted only if a link address contains at least one of the specified strings. Enter one string per line. All strings are case-insensitive and are treated as substrings. Regular Expressions with the function regex(...) and date variables are supported. Wildcards or other regular expression functions besides regex(...) are not supported, for example StartToRegex.


Examples:

techinfo
forum_data
regex(/article\d+/)

Options (2)

  • Name Prefix
    If defined, automatically inserted Bookmarks use the specified text as a prefix in the Bookmark name. Example: [wsw]

  • Do not follow links in ignored content
    With this option, the Follow Links feature uses defined Ignore filters to exclude links that appear in filtered areas of a page. This option works only with Ignore filters, not with Watch filters.

Advanced Options

Check if a URL already exists in WebSite-Watcher
If a URL contains a changing Session-ID, it may be inserted again each time the site is checked. To prevent this behavior, you can define regular expressions to exclude specific parts of a URL when WebSite-Watcher checks whether it already exists. Enter one regular expression per line. The function text "regex(" and ")" is optional.


Examples:

  • ?.*
    Filters everything after the question mark.
  • &s=.*?&
    Filters the parameter &s= up to the next ampersand, for example &s=hasdqwe79a8sd798&.
  • &sid=[a-z|1-9]*
    Filters a session ID consisting of characters a-z and digits.


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