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xPath Monitoring

Check Overview​

What is this check?​

xPath is a query language which allows you select elements on a webpage. In this circumstance, people are usually looking for DIVs and monitoring what's in them.

xPath CSS Monitoring Interface

Why is this important?​

With xPath monitoring, you can easily look at changes on things like navigation links, product descriptions and instock availability.

Advanced Usage​

Default Settings​

The default settings for xPath are to alert on any change. However, you can apply additional rules to the detected content.

xPath CSS Monitoring Interface

Rules​

We realise that these rules can be a little overwhelming at first.

Contains the text​

Looks for the specific text in the content (such as ERROR OR STAGING).

Does not contain the text​

Looks for the specific text in the not content (such as BRANDNAME OR KEYWORD).

Has any changes​

Well, this may be a bit complicated but this alerts if there are... erm... any changes.

Does not match the regex​

If your content has a specific structure such as " KEYWORD | BRANDNAME | COMPANY ", you can be alerted if the content no longer matches it.

Matches the regex​

You can look for specific issues or error codes in the content, you can use this to look for specific ones.

contains a number above​

If there is a number detected that is above a certain number.

contains a number below​

If there is a number detected that is below a certain number.

contains a number changed by more than x %​

If there is a number that changes by more than x (where x is a percentage).

has a character count less than​

If the number of characters in the title tag falls below x, alert me.

has a character count more than​

If the number of characters in the title tag goes above x, alert me.

is blank​

Blank? That sounds like something has gone wrong.

But I want more!​

Sure thing! Send us a message on littlewarden.com with what you want to be able to configure and we will see what we can do!