Distill missed a cue?

[natlipson (Nathan Lipson)]

Hi guys!

I set an alert to notify me on new posts on https://www.instagram.com/emb.pt.israel/ that contain “Citizen Card”. See screenshot.

This post, which indeed contains “Citizen Card”, was posted after I set the alert. Did it miss the cue?

Thanks!

[ajitk (Ajit)]

hey @natlipson, what does the change history show for this monitor?

also see the following post. it mentions the checklist that can be used to find out what could be preventing the alert from triggering. it is usually checks or conditions. let me know what you find out.

Web monitor does not update

In general, following set of steps lead to an alert: A check happens. Confirm that they are happening correctly by checkout out the log of checks. If no error was detected, Distill should detect changes. Check the change history. To learn more about change history, please see Change history and highlighted changes – Distill. If Distill is able to detect changes, you should get alerts for actions configured in the monitor’s options. Arriving at this step is crucial to get alerts. If conditions …

[natlipson (Nathan Lipson)]

Thanks @ajitk !

Where do I see the change history?

[natlipson (Nathan Lipson)]

Is that it?

[ajitk (Ajit)]

yes, this is it. the change history displays the captured values.

also notice a button with a “bell icon” for each version in the change history. clicking the button will open a condition debugger modal. it helps understand why a change didn’t (or did) trigger the notification. check them out and let me know if you have any other questions.

[natlipson (Nathan Lipson)]

Thanks! I can see the texts in the “Notification not triggered” modal. How can this help me?

[ajitk (Ajit)]

it displays the condition’s evaluation result. additionally, using the option to “test conditions” helps refine the conditions. let me know what you find out. thanks!

[natlipson (Nathan Lipson)]

I am sorry @ajitk , but I don’t follow, The condition is clear: look for ‘Citizen Card’. This string appeared on the page after I set the alert - and I received no notice of a new post that contains this string. This is what I am trying to understand.

[raksha]

The condition was evaluated as False. So no alert would have been triggered.

The condition is applied based on text extracted from the web page. Since Instagram displays posts as images in the feed, any text embedded in those images cannot be found and used in conditions.

However, you can monitor content such as the number of posts, follower count, or comments on a specific post.

[natlipson (Nathan Lipson)]

Wow! Thanks @raksha !
Does this mean that if the string appears in the comments, not the original text, of the post - the alert will pick it up?
Also, if I may: if I am looking for “citizen card”, will “Citizen Card” (upper case) and “citizen cards’ (plural) will also be picked up?

[raksha]

@natlipson

Does this mean that if the string appears in the comments, not the original text, of the post - the alert will pick it up?

No. For monitoring comments in a post, you will need to create a separate monitor for that post.

@natlipson

Also, if I may: if I am looking for “citizen card”, will “Citizen Card” (upper case) and “citizen cards’ (plural) will also be picked up?

Conditions are case-insensitive. So, “citizen card” will also match “Citizen Card”. “citizen cards” needs to be added as a separate condition.

Please note that the condition applies only to the text and not to the text within an image. As a result, these conditions won’t work when monitoring the Instagram profile page.

[natlipson (Nathan Lipson)]

Thanks a million @raksha !