The forum for popups is focused on clicking through them, but I would like to capture them. Specifically, 1 popup appears with different text each time a web page is refreshed. I would like to capture the text in the popup, ideally with a timestamp and automating the refresh.
Is this possible with available macros? I’d rather not run in python if I can avoid it!
Thanks for any suggestions or references…and the free resource!
@testingitout does the popup show up automatically or does it require you to take an action like clicking a button? if it doesn’t require any action then a macro is not needed. does that make sense? feel free to share the url if you need any help.
example site with popup - Nueva Chicago vs Deportivo Moron Live Handicap Odds (clicking a button “Stats”)
sure, that should work. you can use a macro to click the button/link and monitor the popup’s content.
The behavior is that, when I stay on the page and refresh it manually, the popups go through the same cycle of a list of text statements. … (same IP address).
what do you observe when opening the page in a new incognito window in your browser?
I was able to reverse engineer the code on the web page, which ended up being better for my needs. The exposed code showed how the popups were actually being created.
How do I set up Distill to notify me when a pop up appears on a website? For example, one of the website’s I use is capable of creating a transcript for my incoming calls. When the call is coming in, a pop up window displays and says “incoming call”. I would like Distill to notify me when this pop up window appears. Is that possible?
distill works by opening the page in your browser’s tab to be checked for changes and extracting the selected content in the page.
when you open the page in a new tab in your browser, is the popup with the “incoming call” displayed automatically or do you need to take any action (like clicking a button) on the page?
Hello,
The popup appears automatically on the page when a call is coming in. I do not need to take any action like “clicking a button” on the page for this to happen.
i am assuming that the page is already open and the popup shows up.
what will happen if the page was not open at the time call came and the page was opened in a tab a bit later? will the popup still show? if yes, then it should be possible to monitor the popup’s content by monitoring the popup’s content.
what have you tried so far?
Yes, the page is already open when the popup appears. The popup only shows for about 7 to 10 seconds and then it disappears. Therefore, the same popup will not show later, it would have to be a new call coming in for the popup to reappear. What have I done so far? I entered the text displayed on the popup into Distill Monitor thinking that would notify me when the popup returns, but that didn’t work. Any other thoughts on how we can make this work?
given that popup is displayed for a short time only if the page is open, using live schedule can help. interval is the default schedule that can be changed to live. this will open a pinned tab in the browser and keep it open. this tab will be monitored for changes.
regarding the popup, i will recommend selecting two elements:
if selecting element from the popup is tricky because of timing issue, you can monitor full page to start. the downside of a full-page monitor is that it can trigger alerts due to changes in unwanted parts of the page. you will need to exclude those unwanted parts of the page.
try it out and see how it works for you.
Oh wow! Thank you so much for the suggestions. That worked! You are a genius. Thanks again.