FB changes classes all the time is it possible to us
Thanks!
Tried this. Does not work
{
"selections": [
{
"frames": [
{
"index": 0,
"excludes": [],
"includes": [
{
"type": "css",
"expr": "[role=\"feed\"]",
"fields": [
{
"name": "text",
"type": "builtin"
},
{
"type": "attribute",
"name": "role"
}
]
}
]
}
],
"dynamic": true,
"delay": 2
}
],
"ignoreEmptyText": true,
"includeStyle": false,
"dataAttr": "text"
}
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@rlane The following config works for me after I sort the posts of a FB group by “New Posts”. Can you try it out?
{
"selections": [
{
"frames": [
{
"index": 0,
"excludes": [],
"includes": [
{
"type": "css",
"expr": "[data-ad-preview=message]",
"fields": [
{
"name": "text",
"type": "builtin"
}
]
}
]
}
],
"dynamic": true,
"delay": 2
}
],
"ignoreEmptyText": true,
"includeStyle": false,
"dataAttr": "text"
}
Thanks!
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Hello Raksha,
I am looking to do something similar. I want to monitor a Facebook Group for every time new posts are added. The admin in these groups approves when available. Would I use this to accomplish this?I have my link set to New Posts? It seems the monitor was sending me updates at the interval and not if the page was updated. Should I use a macro to accomplish this?
Thank you!
You should receive an alert only when Distill performs the checks on the page and a change has been detected. The check time is determined by the check interval and the last checked time. If the page has been updated but the check has not been made, then you won’t receive an alert.
In case you want to check them at a faster rate, you should consider setting a lower check interval.
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Thanks for reaching out! Much appreciated. Here’s what I am attempting to accomplish with this project…
I belong to FB Groups. Facebook is not updated by Chronology. You have to select that setting. I am attempting to get updates when certain services as being requested instead of missing those updates. When I set up the notification in Distill, it asks to login to Facebook when I set it up to the cloud. If I set this up on local, will this still require me to login?
Could you advise why this would be happening?
For local monitors, you can sign in to your FB page and continue monitoring it. The monitor will continue to work as long the FB page is logged in. If you are logged out of the page after some days, you can re-login to resume the monitoring.
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Thank you. Perfect. I got it working. Last question, is there a way for the monitor to only alert me if there has been a change in the page? I get so many notifications. I must have a setting wrong.
You can check out the Monitor’s change history to know what changes are triggering the alert. Please see Change history and highlighted changes – Distill to know how to view change history.
If there are changes to the timestamp or other unwanted text, then you can consider de-selecting them. You can try the config shared at Facebook Groups Feed - #3 by raksha.
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Would this work for monitoring facebook marketplace for new listings for sale? I have mine monitoring the whole page right now so it gets quite annoying when I recieve an alert when I get a facebook message or something irrelevant lol
Monitoring the full page may not be a good idea, as there are many unwanted texts (timestamps, count of replies, etc.) that keep changing.
You can try out the configuration shared above at Facebook Groups Feed - #3 by raksha.
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yes its absolutely insane the amount of notifications/SMS I received, I will try that thanks ill let you know how it goes!
I’m sorry about asking this… Where do you enter this config code?
UPDATE: Found it! For those looking like I was: check the box(es) for a monitor > Batch Edit > Config > adjust/paste the code.
check out Config and Advanced Options – Distill
you can copy the selector individually or copy the whole config json in the json tab.
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hi sorry i didn’t understand where to paste the code
which boxes are you talking about?
