Stop checking a page yourself.

Paste the page you keep going back to. We’ll read it now and show you what we can see before we ask you for anything.

We look at pages on a schedule, not continuously: once a day on the free plan. Some pages we can’t read at all, and we’ll tell you straight away if yours is one of them.

What you can watch

How it works

  1. Paste a public page. We read it straight away, so you see what we can see before you give us an email address.
  2. Say what you’re waiting for, in your own words.
  3. We look on a schedule, once a day on the free plan, and email you the first time it happens, not every time we look.
  4. If we can’t read a page, your watch says “we don’t know”, never “not yet”.

The free plan covers up to three watches. We only watch pages that are public.

Questions

Why not just bookmark the page?

A bookmark reminds you where the page is. Osmanth Watch reads the page for you on a schedule and emails you when what you’re waiting for happens, so you don’t have to remember to look. The free plan looks once a day, so it suits things that stay true for hours or days, not a restock that sells out in minutes.

Do I need an account?

There is no password and no sign-up form. You give an email address and confirm it from the link we send. Nothing is watched until you click it, and the same kind of link signs you back in.

What does the alert email say?

It says what happened in one line, then shows the page, what you were watching for, the value before and now, and when we saw it. For a page that changed, it also lists the lines that were added or removed.

Can I watch more than one page?

Yes. The free plan covers up to three watches.

What if the page has adverts or a clock on it?

When you watch a whole page, we leave out the navigation, header and footer, cookie banners and elements marked as adverts, and we treat dates, times, long ID numbers and counters like “1,234 people viewing” as unchanged. These are rules of thumb, so an unusual advert can still look like a change. If a page is noisy, choose the one part you care about, or ask for a price, stock status or phrase instead.

Is my data shared?

We don’t sell it and we don’t use it for advertising. We do use an email service, Resend, to deliver the confirmation and alert emails, so it handles your email address and the content of those emails. Read the privacy policy

Does this replace checking by hand?

For the pages you watch, within limits: only public pages, once a day on the free plan, and some pages we can’t read at all. We tell you straight away if yours is one of them, and if we can’t read a page later, the watch says “we don’t know” rather than “not yet”.

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