Distill is a web monitoring tool. It can monitor RSS feeds, a webpage or a part of webpage. Alerts in the form of pop-up, audio or emails can be received.
Featured highlights:
• Content selection from any webpage including iframes. • Supported actions: • Push notifications on phone • Pop-up • Audio • Email • SMS • Webhook • Easy to use inbox style Watchlist with label, trash etc. • Conditions for smart actions. • History of previous changes for each monitor. • Powerful expressions to select source content. Supports XPath expression, CSS rule or JavaScript expression to select content. • View highlighted changes.
One of the best tools I have used to keep track of changes on my competitors website. I love the chrome extension and its ease of use.
Based on our record, Ntfy seems to be a lot more popular than Distill Web Monitor. While we know about 61 links to Ntfy, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Distill Web Monitor. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I haven't used any in recent years so I'm not up to speed with the pros/cons of each, but PageProbe, SiteDelta Watch, and Distill Web Monitor are a few to try. Source: about 2 years ago
I’ve had pretty good luck with the distill web monitor https://distill.io/apps/web-monitor. Source: about 3 years ago
Slightly related, but I've also been working on and off for a few years on my own Type 1 Diabetes management solution (https://github.com/algao1/iv3) to send alerts and such. I was thinking of eventually incorporating some kind of automatic remedial solution eventually to help keep my glucose in range, but haven't had any time to look into it yet. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
If you go to the settings, there should be a notification category, which then contains another menu "App Notifications" where you can see all the apps that are allowed to receive notifications, but I don't know if this will stop google play services to receive these identifiers. I use GrapheneOS, so I don't have any google play services running, but for the apps where I need notifications I use... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would check the site every five or ten minutes and then ping me as soon as the result changed to something besides PENDING. In the course of that I stumbled on https://ntfy.sh/ which solved the... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
I connect any app that supports https://unifiedpush.org/ to a self hosted https://ntfy.sh instance for fully self hosted push notifications. Source: 6 months ago
Changedetection.io just donated to the awesome crew over at ntfy.sh. Source: 6 months ago
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