Keywords

Highlight keywords

This feature allows you to highlight specified keywords in a page. Whole keywords must be placed in quotation marks, for example "watch". All entered keywords are case-insensitive.

Keywords are highlighted only in the version with highlighted changes, not in the new or old version of a page.

Regular Expressions must be placed between "regex(" and ")" without quotation marks.

For example: regex(WebSite.Watcher) finds "WebSite-Watcher", "WebSite Watcher", "WebSite_Watcher", and similar variations.

Restriction: Keywords can be highlighted only if no HTML-Tags are placed within the word. For example, the text "<b>H</b>ello" contains HTML-Tags, so the keyword "Hello" cannot be highlighted. If WebSite-Watcher cannot highlight all entered keywords, a warning is displayed at the beginning of the page.

Different keywords can be highlighted with different colors. Add #COLORNAME to the right side of the keyword. Supported color names are: red, green, olive, lime, teal, blue, aqua, magenta, orange.

Example:

website #blue
watcher #red

Keyword Monitoring

The Update-on-keywords feature reports an update only if at least one of the entered keywords is found in new or changed content. If none of the entered keywords is found on a page, WebSite-Watcher does not save the checked page to your hard disk. When you open the Bookmark, you always see the latest version that contained at least one of the entered keywords.

Enter one keyword per line. All entered keywords are case-insensitive.

Parts of a word
By default, WebSite-Watcher searches for keywords anywhere in new and changed text content, including when they are part of a word. If you enter the keyword watch, you also get a positive result when the word WebSite-Watcher is present.
Whole words
If WebSite-Watcher should find only whole words, place them in quotation marks. The keyword "watch" does not produce a positive result when the page contains WebSite-Watcher, but "watch" is found in the text you can watch a page for.
Combination of words
Words on a single line can be combined with a logical AND, which means that all words must be found in new or changed content. Combine keywords by placing " + " between them, space-plus-space. Whole keywords are supported by placing them in quotation marks.
Examples:
keyword1 + keyword2
"keyword1" + keyword2 + "keyword3"
"website" + "watcher"
Regular Expressions
Keywords can also be defined using Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions must be placed between "regex(" and ")" without quotation marks.
For example: regex(WebSite.Watcher) finds "WebSite-Watcher", "WebSite Watcher", "WebSite_Watcher", and similar variations.
A special function, regexcmp(...), allows you to compare prices with a specified number.

Save page even if no keywords found:

This option is turned off by default. WebSite-Watcher does not save the page when no keywords are found, so you always see the last version in which keywords were found. This behavior is intended for pages where keywords are searched in new content.

Enable this option if a specific keyword always appears or disappears at the same location, for example the keyword "in stock" on a shop page.

Defined Filters:

WebSite-Watcher does not search for keywords in content that is filtered by Ignore filters. Defined Watch filters are not used when searching for keywords.

Plugins:

With the integrated Plugin system you can define complex keyword queries with logical operators. More details are available in topic Wsw_CheckKeywords. If keywords and a Plugin are defined, both mechanisms are executed. WebSite-Watcher reports an update if at least one of these features finds a keyword.