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Adding a watch

  1. Navigate to the page you want to track
  2. Click the Site Spy icon in your toolbar
  3. Click Track Current Page — the current page URL is added automatically
You can also type a URL into the field and click Track Entered URL. Or skip the popup entirely: right-click anywhere on a page and choose Track This Page. Right-clicking a link tracks the link’s target, so you can add a page without opening it. Track an Element on This Page starts the element picker directly from the same menu.

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Watching one thing instead of the whole page

Tracking a whole page means being alerted on every timestamp, banner and visitor counter on it. To watch one thing instead, use Pick an Element on This Page below, or open the watch in your dashboard and point at the element on a picture of the page. The popup also has a field asking what changes matter. It is optional, and it only does something when automatic noise repair applies to it — that setting is off by default. The first snapshot is taken automatically. You’ll see a “Pending” status while the initial check runs (usually takes about a minute).

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Monitoring specific elements

Instead of tracking the entire page, you can monitor a specific section:
  1. Click Pick an Element on This Page in the extension popup
  2. The popup closes and elements are highlighted as you hover over them
  3. Click the element you want to monitor (a price, a headline, a stock line)
  4. A bar appears with the selector and three buttons — Track This Element, Re-select, Cancel
  5. Confirm, and the watch is created with the CSS selector already filled in
Enter confirms and Escape lets go of the selection; Escape again leaves the picker. The button only appears when the URL field is empty, because this picker works on the tab in front of you. Type an address into the field and you get Track Entered URL instead — pick on that page from the dashboard once the watch exists. The extension picks on the live page, so it is click-only: drawing a box around an area and the “just this one or the whole list” question belong to the dashboard and chat picker. See Choosing What to Watch.
The element inspector doesn’t work on browser internal pages (chrome://, about:, extension pages). Navigate to a regular website first.

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Finding a watch

The search box at the top of the popup filters your list by URL and title as you type.

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Pausing a watch

Each watch row has a pause button. Paused watches show a PAUSED tag and are not checked until you resume them. Site Spy pauses watches on its own in two cases, both shown in the button’s tooltip:
  • After repeated failures — resume it once you’ve fixed the cause. See Watch Health.
  • Over your plan limit — the resume button stays disabled until you upgrade or remove another watch.

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Check intervals

The server checks your watches on a schedule. Defaults and per-watch minimums depend on your plan: You can also trigger an immediate recheck from the web dashboard by clicking the recheck button on any watch.