watch_url
Watch a web page for changes
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Start watching a public web page for changes when you cannot stay running yourself. Use when a task needs to know whether a page changed since you last looked, and you will not be alive to check: a price, a status page, a job listing, a policy, a schedule, a document.
Give it a URL. It takes a first snapshot now, then re-fetches every 3600 seconds, extracts the visible text deterministically, and records a signed change record whenever the text hash changes. You get back a token; call check_changes with it later, from any run, to learn whether the page changed and see the diff.
Free: 3 monitors per caller, 168 hourly checks each (about seven days). More checks or more monitors are sold per call over x402 on the HTTP route POST /v1/watch.
It will NOT render JavaScript, log in, use proxies, or bypass bot protection. A page that blocks plain fetches is reported BLOCKED and your remaining checks are kept and can be moved to another URL. No language model is involved; no 'meaningful change' guessing.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) URL to watch. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"url"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Public http(s) URL to watch."
}
}
}