Most monitoring tools tell you when a page changes. But what about pages that didn't exist yesterday?
A competitor launches a new product. A job board posts a role you've been waiting for. A government agency publishes a new filing. A news site drops a story in your niche. You can't monitor what you don't know exists yet.
PageCrawl.io's Page Discovery automatically scans websites on a daily or weekly schedule, finds new pages, filters them by your criteria, and sends you a notification. No coding, no manual checking.
Change Monitoring vs. Page Discovery
Change monitoring and page discovery solve different problems. Change monitoring watches pages you already know about and tells you when something on them changes. Page discovery watches an entire website and tells you when a completely new page appears.
Think of it this way: if a competitor updates their pricing page, change monitoring catches that. If they launch an entirely new product line with its own page, page discovery catches that. You often need both, but most tools only offer change monitoring.
What Page Discovery Does
You give PageCrawl a website URL, and it regularly scans the site to find new pages. PageCrawl automatically picks the best discovery method for the site, but you can customize it if needed:
- Sitemap reads the site's XML sitemap to find new URLs. Fastest and most efficient. Works great for large sites that maintain sitemaps.
- URL Scanning loads the page in a real browser and extracts all links. Catches dynamically loaded content that sitemaps might miss.
- Deep Crawl follows links multiple levels deep to find pages buried in nested navigation.
- Automatic runs all methods together for maximum coverage. Best for high-priority targets.
Filter What Matters
A large site might add hundreds of pages, but you probably only care about a subset. Filters let you define exactly what counts as relevant.
URL filters are the most common. Use simple text matching (/products/), wildcards (/blog/*), or regex for complex patterns. For example, to only discover new products on a competitor's site, add a URL filter with /products/*.
Title and text filters match against the page title or body content. A job board might put all listings under /jobs/, but a title filter for "Software Engineer" narrows results to relevant roles only.
Exclude filters remove noise. Exclude /admin/*, /login, /search* to keep your results clean. Exclude filters always take priority over include filters.
Use Cases
New product alerts. Discover when competitors add products to their catalog. Set up discovery on their product pages and get notified the same day a new listing goes live.
Documentation and changelog tracking. Keep up with software tools and platforms you rely on. Discover new help articles, API docs, or changelog entries as they're published.
News and media. Monitor specific sections of news outlets for articles mentioning your company, industry, or competitors. Catch coverage the moment it publishes.
Regulatory and government. Track agency websites for new filings, guidance documents, or regulations. Finding a new regulation on day one versus day seven makes a real difference for compliance teams.
Real estate. Watch listing sites for new properties in specific areas. URL filters target neighborhoods while text filters catch price ranges or features.
Competitor content. Track when competitors publish new blog posts or documentation. Over time, you'll see their publishing patterns and content strategy.
Getting Notified
When new pages are discovered, you can get notified immediately via Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or Telegram. If you'd rather not be interrupted, switch to a daily or weekly summary instead.
Auto-Import: Discover and Monitor
The real power is combining discovery with monitoring. When a new page matches your filters, PageCrawl can automatically start monitoring it for changes. A competitor's new product page gets discovered on day one, then tracked for price and stock changes from day two onward.
Getting Started
- Click Track New Page and select Scan a Website
- Enter the website URL you want to discover pages on
- Pick your check frequency and monitoring mode (Content Only works for most sites)
- PageCrawl automatically chooses the best discovery mode based on your URL, or you can pick one manually
- For smaller websites, enable auto-monitor to automatically track all discovered pages for changes
- Once pages start appearing, add filters to narrow results and set up notifications
Set up your first page discovery in under five minutes. Get started free.
Pricing and Limits
Page discovery is available on all plans, including free. Free accounts can discover up to 2,000 pages per website. Standard plans increase that to 20,000, and Enterprise plans support up to 100,000 discovered pages. Deep crawling with JavaScript rendering is available on Enterprise plans.
Whether you're tracking product launches, job postings, regulatory updates, or competitor content, page discovery runs continuously in the background so you don't have to. Start discovering new pages today.