Auto Refresh Plus | Page Monitor

Auto Refresh Plus | Page Monitor is a Chrome extension developed by autorefresh.io. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Auto Refresh Plus | Page Monitor is 7.5.0, updated on 2023-01-29.
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developer website: autorefresh.io

Refresh page automatically with powerful page monitor features

Auto Refresh Plus comes in handy to any user who needs to perform automatic web page refresh at certain times efficiently. It also provides content detection support, which is useful when monitoring content included in a dynamic web page.

⭐ Key Features

(1) Default Time Interval
(2) Random Interval
(3) Set custom refresh cycles
(4) Display Visual Timer on page
(5) Auto Stop refreshing if click anywhere on the page
(6) Countdown Timer mode
(7) Hard Refresh / Bypass cache
(8) Auto start URLs
(9) Refresh Predefined Page
(10) Active Tabs List
(11) Page Monitor (Keyword Find/Lost)
(12) Refresh Predefined Text Keywords
(13) XHR Refresh (with custom auto click on each Refresh)
(14) Custom, XPath, and Regex expression support
(15) Auto Click on Link
(16) Get alerted via notification and email.
(17) Hotkeys

⭐ Features Detailed explanations

(1) Default Time Interval
This feature allows you to set the default time for every page refresh. You can select either the predefined time intervals or provide your custom time interval.

(2) Random Interval
Using this feature, you can randomize the time interval of page refreshes. Select a minimum and a maximum range of time, and it will automatically refresh pages on any random time interval between those ranges.

(3) Set refresh Numbers
Set how many times you want to refresh the specific webpage

(4) Display Visual Timer
This feature allows you to display visual timer on the webpage you will refresh.

(5) Stop refreshing if click anywhere on the page
Auto Refresh Plus will pause the refresh task if the user interacts with the page.

(6) Countdown Timer
You can use the countdown timer to refresh a specific page after a certain amount of time has passed. Enable and set the timer, a countdown will begin, and as soon as the countdown hits zero, ARP will start refreshing the page with the default time interval.

(7) Hard Refresh
Reload the page without relying on cached data

(8) Auto start URLs
These are the URLs that ARP will start to refresh automatically as soon as the browser opens them or restarts. You can add one or multiple URLs on the extension settings page

(9) Refresh Predefined Page:
Using this feature, you can refresh a webpage without opening it yourself. Once you put a URL in this section, it will automatically open the URLs and refresh them on the default time interval.

(10) Active Tabs List
In the extension popup (action menu), You can also see the list of tabs where refresh tasks are in progress. You can see the timer, switch the tab on click, and suspend the task.

(11) Page Monitor:
This powerful feature allows you to monitor a webpage and look for any changes in it. You can monitor your changes in the web page's visual or source code. You can monitor website changes in three ways.

(I) Finding out if some specific text has APPEARED on the webpage
(II) Finding out if some specific text has DISAPPEARED from the webpage
(III) Monitor Anything change (Stay alert when any change occurs on the specific webpage)

You can also configure Auto Refresh Plus to stop or continue to refresh tasks if it finds or lost the monitored keyword. Depending on your page monitor's settings, it will trigger a notification, email, or bell. further more you can add any monitor keyword with you browser context menu

(12) Supported Expressions for Page monitor
(I) Normal Expression
(II) Custom expression
(III) XPath expression
(IV) Regex expression
↪ For complete details: https://autorefresh.io/expressions/

(13) XHR Refresh (with custom auto click on each Refresh)
Retrieve data from a URL without having to do a full page refresh. This enables a Web page to update just part of a page without disrupting what the user is doing.

(14) Refresh Predefined Text Keywords
This feature starts refreshing a webpage as soon as some specific text is found on it. To use it, insert one or multiple keywords on the settings page. As soon as this Text appears on a webpage, ARP will start refreshing it automatically with the default time interval.

(15) Auto Click on Link
if your Monitored keyword is a link or a button, Auto Refresh Plus can also click that for you. You must first enable this feature in settings.

(16) Get alerted via notification and email.
Once the page monitor finds that some specific text has appeared or disappeared from the webpage, it notifies the user by a Push notification, alert sound, and an email alert. The sound notification can be customized as per your needs.

(17) Hotkeys
Set your custom keyboard shortcuts for following Auto Refresh Plus actions
• Start Time Interval:
• Start Random Interval:
• Start Timer mode:
• Stop interval:
• Kill notification sound:

⭐ Getting started
★ Open a webpage to be Refresh or monitored.
★ Click the Auto Refresh Plus icon in the browser toolbar.
★ "Select the Time interval" and "Page Monitor " as needed for your case.
★ Click to "Start."
★ For more configuration, please check the extension settings page.

⭐ Use case
★ Competitive monitoring
★ Monitor Price changes
★ Monitor Job offers
★ Monitor Product availability
★ Media monitoring
★ Website errors tracking
★ Track numeric data in graphs
★ And many more

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Version - 7.5.0 || Jan 27, 2023
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✓ Fixed problem with window focus in page monitor and multiple windows
✓ Some minor bugs fixed

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Version - 7.4.8 || May 18, 2022
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✓ Improved performance

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Version - 7.4.7 || April 25, 2022
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✓ Fixed Visual Timer bug
✓ Fixed ARP Stop at 00:00 for some users

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Version - 7.4.6 || April 11, 2022
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✓ Added XHR Refresh (with custom auto click on each Refresh)
✓ Added support to Stop refreshing if click anywhere on the page
✓ Added support to auto restart Refresh tasks if it finds or lost the monitored keyword
✓ Added support to add monitor keyword with you browser context menu
✓ Added support to display Active Tabs List in extension popup
✓ Added support to display Visual Timer on page

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Version - 7.4.5 || January 26, 2022
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✓ Improved Ui
✓ Fixed some minor bugs

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Version - 7.4.4 || November 25, 2021
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✓ Fixed Time Interval bug (Now you can Set the Time Interval for less than 1 second)
✓ Added support to Adding multiples URL in AutoStart URLs
✓ Restoring AutoStart functions as it was before in version 7.4.2
✓ Add support to Combine three functions (Restart open, predefined Text, and refresh open) in one domain and multiple domains
✓ Fixed repeat update alert tab opening

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Version - 7.4.3 || November 18, 2021
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✓ Fixed Email Notification in the backend
✓ Added textmode support in Page-Monitor search
✓ Fixed Decimals Bug in custom time ( Crash ARP )
✓ Fixed Blank line bug in Auto-Start
✓ Fixed $ sign bug in Page-Monitor
✓ Fixed Predefined Auto-start URL bug with page-Monitor
✓ Fixed Error bug when combining Regex with Auto Click Function

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Version - 7.4.2 || August 3, 2021
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✓ Fixed Russian language detection in page monitor
✓ Fixed Predefine URL bug

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Version - 7.4.1 || July 20, 2021
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✓ Fixed Form resubmission error
✓ Fixed bug showing notifications
✓ Added Supports for custom expressions
✓ Added Supports for regex expressions
✓ Added Support for XPath expressions
✓ Optimized reload and Page monitor speed

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Version - 7.4.0 || July 3, 2021
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✓ Added "Hard Refresh" Feature (reload without relying on cached data)
✓ Added "refresh numbers" (Set how many times you want to refresh)
✓ Added "Custom scripts" (play with automation)
✓ Added "Custom hotkeys" (set your custom keyboard hotkeys)
✓ Added "Full page monitor" (stay alert when any change occurs)
✓ Added "default monitoring keywords input."
✓ Added "visual and source" Find monitor text in visual and source
✓ Improved Ui
✓ Fixed miner Bugs

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Version - 7.3.2 || December 21th, 2020
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✓ Added option for auto click on link => in the same tab or new tab
✓ Random Interval Time can be saved now!
✓ Focus on Tab Once Target Is Found
✓ Added input in settings to save default keyword for page monitor
✓ Added custom hrs., min, sec in Time Interval
✓ Fixed Play sound from the custom link, and for x sec
✓ Fixed some other minor issues
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⭐ Active Support center
We deeply care for our users and are actively working on providing support and adding requested features. If you have a suggestion, a feature you would like to request, or need help with ARP, please leave a request in the support section.
↪ Feature Request: https://autorefresh.io/wishform/

⭐ Privacy Policy
• We do not track any of your data, period.
• We do not track any extension usage, including searches, filters, tabs, windows, popup opens, etc.
• We do not track any websites, website usage, etc.
• We do not transfer any data to any 3rd party servers/internet
• The only data that we store is your storage data. You save this data to your local browser storage. We never touch or see this data.
• The same goes for your settings - your settings are saved solely inside your browser.
• The extension uses Google Analytics to collect code errors information anonymously to improve extension quality.

Feel free to contact us if you got any questions or concerns about data privacy; we will be happy to help.
↪ Contact us: https://autorefresh.io/contact