Web Monitor Stops Working Due to Session Timeouts - Solutions?

Help and Support
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I’m using the free plan of Distill to track parking permit availability on my university’s website. The monitor works perfectly for tracking the permit table body id, but I’m running into a frustrating issue.

The Problem

The website in the distill browser randomly logs out the university account at unpredictable intervals - sometimes after 30 minutes, sometimes after 12+ hours. When this happens, I click on the monitor to open the distill browser, and see i get redirected to the login page (which is one-two page’s before the permit table i’m tracking), and the web monitor stops working until I manually log back in.

What I Need

I’m looking for solutions to either:

  1. Prevent the automatic logout from happening in the first place

  2. Enable Distill to automatically log back in when a logout occurs

Has anyone dealt with similar session management issues when web monitoring? Any suggestions for keeping sessions alive or automating the login process would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for any help!

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@dvdvlz it is not possible to stop the session from timing out as it depends on the website.

option #2 should work well. users have solved this with the help of a macro action for a local device (extension or desktop app). the high-level idea is:

  1. create a monitor that tracks the site.
  2. add a condition that is true when session has timed out. it can be presence of the login form (or the button).
  3. create a macro to login automatically. see the article linked earlier.
  4. use this macro as an action.

with this setup, the monitor will run the macro action to login once it detects that you have been logged out.