Auto Refresh Plus | Page Monitor

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 the 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 the 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 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 a visual timer on the webpage you will refresh.

(5) Stop refreshing if you click or write 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 when Browser will 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 and refresh the URLs 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 changes. 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. Furthermore, you can add any monitor keyword from your 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 when some specific text is found. To use it, insert one or multiple keywords on the settings page. ARP will start refreshing it automatically with the default time interval as soon as this Text appears on a webpage.

(15) Auto Click on the 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 with 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 Refreshed 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 on "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 error tracking
★ Track numeric data in graphs
★ And many more

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Version - 8.1.0 | AUG 11, 2024
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✓ Fixed a bug preventing interaction with certain elements.
✓ Improved the full-page monitoring system.

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Version - 8.0.9 | JULY 23, 2024
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✓ Fixed: Auto Start URL not opening in Edge
✓ Improved: Session restoration after system hibernation
✓ Improved Refresh System
✓ Improved XHR Click functionality
✓ Cleaned up duplicate keyword highlights in XHR

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Version - 8.0.8 | JULY 17, 2024
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✓ Fixed notification sound issue in browsers below version 110.
✓ Addressed negative numbers in some inputs.
✓ Fixed scroll issue when changing the hash.

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Version - 8.0.7 | JULY 15, 2024
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✓ Fixed slash issues in Predefined URL and AutoStart URL

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Version - 8.0.6 | JULY 13, 2024
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✓ Improved Auto start URL on restart
✓ Improve sound Alert when the tab is offscreen
✓ Enhance XHR click handling
✓ Enhance refresh system to prevent auto-stop

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Version - 8.0.5 | JULY 12, 2024
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✓ Regex functionality improved.
✓ Monitor now works with regex in multiple keywords.
✓ Added support in Auto start for chrome-extension:// URLs.
✓ Fixed Form resubmission issues.
✓ Fixed Auto start URL reliability issues.
✓ Fixed Predefined settings functionality.

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Version - 8.0.4 | JULY 10, 2024
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✓ Fixed issues with mouse click interactions
✓ Improved scroll position memory
✓ Fixed countdown getting stuck when "Continue Refreshing on Keyword Detection" is enabled
✓ Added support for file URLs and localhost in auto start

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Version - 8.0.3 | JULY 08, 2024
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✓ Set minimum value of 0.1 in custom interval input.
✓ Improved onTabUpdate Refresh to prevent fast counter.
✓ Fixed wildcard in Auto Start URLs.
✓ Improved keyword text highlighting.
✓ Implemented scroll to keyword location.
✓ Added support for regex commas.
✓ Prevented double initial countdown.
✓ Fixed Fully refresh on XHR.
✓ Prevented hotkey interaction issues.
✓ Moved notifications to a new section.

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Version - 8.0.2 | JULY 04, 2024
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✓ Enhanced scroll memory functionality.
✓ Added support for file URLs.
✓ Fixed countdown displaying negative numbers.
✓ Set Auto Discard to false to prevent sleep mode interruptions.
✓ Resolved infinite cycle issues in auto-click and XHR functionality.
✓ Fixed custom script execution with URLs containing slashes.
✓ Improved refresh system performance.
✓ Fixed various minor issues.
✓ Addressed issue with URL hashes preventing refresh.

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Version - 8.0.1 | JULY 02, 2024
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✓ Added support for refresh intervals less than 1 second.
✓ Supported HTTP URLs in Auto Start URLs.
✓ Restart refresh on URL changes, preserving session data.
✓ Enhanced auto-click functions.
✓ Default refresh number set to "0".
✓ Continue refresh during network issues.
✓ Fixed intermittent refresh stoppage.
✓ Fixed refresh stopping with Alt + Tab.
✓ Remembered scroll position during refresh.
✓ Fixed XHR bug with visual timer in popup.
✓ Improved countdown reliability.
✓ Fixed oversized buttons in Active Tabs.

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Version - 8.0.0 || JUNE 28, 2024
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✓ Updated to MV3
✓ Introduced wildcard support in Auto Start URLs

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Version - 7.5.3 || JUL 09, 2023
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✓ Added function to Select the time duration to retain the record of Alerted Tabs before they automatically disappear

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Version - 7.5.2 || JUN 24, 2023
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✓ Added Stop auto-refresh on click and keyboard interaction in "Time Interval" settings.
✓ Added Bell icon in "active tabs" for keyword alerts.

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Version - 7.5.1 || JUN 07, 2023
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✓ Added email verification to prevent spam.
✓ Enable Page Monitor email alert from the popup for individual websites.
✓ Option in general settings to switch or stay on the canonical URL if the site changes.
✓ Stop refreshing when typing in input fields on a webpage.
✓ General settings option to enable/disable window focus when Page Monitor finds or loses a keyword.
✓ Import/export Auto Refresh Plus configuration for use on the same or different computer.
✓ Improved hotkeys functions.

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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

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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.
✓ Added support to stop refreshing on page click.
✓ Added auto-restart for refresh tasks if the monitored keyword is found or lost.
✓ Added ability to add monitor keyword via browser context menu.
✓ Added display of Active Tabs List in the extension popup.
✓ Added Visual Timer display on the page.

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Version - 7.4.4 || November 25, 2021
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✓ Added support for multiple URLs in AutoStart.
✓ Restored AutoStart functions from version 7.4.2.
✓ Added support to combine three functions (restart open, predefined text, refresh open) for one or multiple domains.

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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 Predefined Auto-start URL bug with page-Monitor

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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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✓ Added Support for custom expressions
✓ Added Support 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

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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

↪ For more changelogs, please visit: https://autorefresh.io/changelog/

⭐ 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/contact/?reason=feature

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• 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.
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Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns about data privacy; we will gladly help.
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