How to monitor a business news page, set up notifications on new articles?

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Example, trying to be notified of new articles on https://whatnowaus.com/. I have tried highlighting parts of the webpage, but I never get notified when a new article comes out. What is the best way to monitor a business web page and be alerted when a new article is added?

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Hi @jecwrw4,

I’ve added a monitor to detect changes in the upper section of the page which is monitoring the text content and links(anchor tags)

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and got these change notifications:

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Here’s the monitor’s config:

{
  "selections": [
    {
      "frames": [
        {
          "index": 0,
          "excludes": [],
          "includes": [
            {
              "type": "xpath",
              "expr": "(//body[contains(@class,'home')]/div[contains(@class,'elementor')]/div[@class='elementor-inner']//section//div[@class='elementor-row']//div//div//div//div[contains(@class,'tile')]/a)[1]",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "name": "text",
                  "type": "builtin"
                },
                {
                  "type": "attribute",
                  "name": "href"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "xpath",
              "expr": "(//body[contains(@class,'home')]/div[contains(@class,'elementor')]/div[@class='elementor-inner']//section//div[@class='elementor-row']//div//div//div//div[contains(@class,'tile')]/a)[2]",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "name": "text",
                  "type": "builtin"
                },
                {
                  "type": "attribute",
                  "name": "href"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "xpath",
              "expr": "(//body[contains(@class,'home')]/div[contains(@class,'elementor')]/div[@class='elementor-inner']//section//div[@class='elementor-row']//div//div//div//div[contains(@class,'tile')]/a)[3]",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "name": "text",
                  "type": "builtin"
                },
                {
                  "type": "attribute",
                  "name": "href"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "xpath",
              "expr": "(//body[contains(@class,'home')]/div[contains(@class,'elementor')]/div[@class='elementor-inner']//section//div[@class='elementor-row']//div//div//div//div[contains(@class,'tile')]/a)[4]",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "name": "text",
                  "type": "builtin"
                },
                {
                  "type": "attribute",
                  "name": "href"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "xpath",
              "expr": "(//body[contains(@class,'home')]/div[contains(@class,'elementor')]/div[@class='elementor-inner']//section//div[@class='elementor-row']//div//div//div//div[contains(@class,'tile')]/a)[5]",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "name": "text",
                  "type": "builtin"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "dynamic": true,
      "delay": 2
    }
  ],
  "ignoreEmptyText": true,
  "includeStyle": false,
  "dataAttr": "text"
}

Can you update your monitor’s config with the snippet I’ve shared? This link shows the steps to open/update the monitor’s config Config and Advanced Options – Distill.

To configure email alerts for your monitor you can follow Get email alerts on webpage changes – Distill.

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