Hi, I’m using distill servers to monitor for website changes and I’ve encountered false trigger due to date change as highlighted below. Do you have a solution for this issue? I can’t deselect the date as it is required to monitor for publish & updated date.
URL: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/
xpath selector: //table
the easiest way is to exclude the date columns. do you need to monitor changes to dates too? if yes, can you try using local device for checks and see if that works better for your use case?
yeah i need to monitor changes to the dates. i’ll try using local device for checks to see if it improves. thanks!
If you monitoring for new items only maybe something like added text contains " " (space)?
But it’s pretty obvious that “Updated” will change, how is that false trigger?..
I suspect this behavior is due to the time zone of the host machine executing the check. You can cause the displayed date to change by switching your computer’s time zone to one where it is already the next calendar day.
The local instance of the browser used to select which content to monitor must be different than the host machine executing the check.
Here is the same web page displayed with my local machine set to two different time zones.
Perhaps this could be overcome by allowing checks to be run at fixed times rather than cyclical 24 hours?
