How do I ignore numeric only changes

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How do I ignore changes to webpages which are only numeric, for instance the number of days sinace a post or the number of comments on a post

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there are two ways to filter content out:

  1. use the visual selector to deselect (exclude) unwanted parts of the page. see: https://distill.io/docs/web-monitor/what-is-visual-selector/#how-to-exclude-elements-from-the-selection-that-you-do-not-want-to-monitor
  2. use regex filter to extract only specific pattern from the text that needs to be monitore.

feel free to share the url you are monitoring in case you need help configuring the monitor.

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Even if I use the visual selector, the numbers fall within the selection

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can you share the page url that i can check out?

a regex filter can help here. for example, \D* regex will exclude all digits.