Hi, I want to get a notification whenever someone makes a new post on Facebook. I’m using the Distill extension on Google Chrome to try and do this.
I tried using “monitor parts of page” and clicked on the “Posts” section, but it’s not working the way I want.
What I really want to know is: where exactly should I click or highlight on the page so that I only get notified when they make a new post?
are you trying to monitor groups or posts in profile pages? it is tricky to select elements in facebook because of how the page renders invisible random content in the page.
following post shows how to monitor Monitoring FaceBook Group Posts - #6 by ajitk groups.
Im trying to monitor a facebook friend in their profile so whenever they post something new I will get notified
So I see that option now, monitor facebook posts but it doesnt seem accurate, it gives me email notifications even tho there arent any changes on their account or posts
so it notifies a lot of times even tho changes weren’t made. No posts no nothing but I kept on receiving email and I used where it says monitor facebook user post
there can be random characters in certain pages. can you share what the changes look like in the history? see Change history and highlighted changes – Distill
I just simply wanna monitor facebook post so whenever they posts something I get notified. So I did that, but notifications are accurate. I keep on getting emails even if there arent any changes
notice the result section that displays gibberish content read from the page. can you share profile url that had these posts? this is most likely the content that changes frequently and triggers notifications. can you share the url where this was captured?
Seems, this is an unsolved question. And I faced with the same problem.
The number of the reactions, shares, etc. is in response. Therefore yes, we receive false-positive alerts.
@szuni Thanks for bringing this up and for sharing your experience.
We’re currently fine-tuning the Facebook scraper to better handle elements that can cause false-positive alerts.
We’ll post an update on the forum once improvements are in place. Thanks for your patience.
@szuni Facebook scraper should now be working more reliably. We’ve rolled out improvements on our end to better handle dynamic elements that were previously causing false-positive alerts.
If anyone is still seeing unexpected alerts after this update, please feel free to reach out to us.
