bernaferrari/ChangeDetection

[Feature request] Selective detection

galadril opened this issue · 8 comments

galadril commented

Awesome app!

It would be cool if you can select a part of the website that you would like to watch.
For example, if i would like to buy a product like this:

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It would be awesome to set a check on the specific 'In stock' text.. or 'out of stock'

So you get a notification when that part of the website changes..

bernaferrari commented
galadril commented

True.. sounds really hard...

Could be something like the firefox dev panel:
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So you can select a field within the page:
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You could even make this feature a paid feature ;)

galadril commented

I currently get updates every hour for all websites that i would love to watch.. thats because there is always something changed on the webshops.. but not the info that im interested in :D

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bernaferrari commented
Hillmanae commented

If you could figure this out, I would be very happy. I have the problem on the website I want to watch that the code behind the frontpage changes all the time, so I get constant notifications. It would be great just to track one part of a page.

bernaferrari commented

Someone has suggested me to make a widget with a partial part of the page. I'll see how far I can get with that idea.

Iey4iej3 commented

I completely agree, however I don't know how to make the UI for that.

There is an option: allow the user to input the CSS selector. For example, if we look at this page for Amazon Kindle, the CSS selector obtained via Firefox Developer Tools is .apexPriceToPay > span:nth-child(2).

theSoberSobber commented

How would you scroll and select that? That's one of the pain points..
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have you ever checked out an app called anytracker on the playstore? The UI can look like that! You can have an embedded webview and then find the number/text in the raw html, then you can get a fingerprint (combination of element tag, id, class, heirarchy etc.) and then monitor that instead of the whole site!