# PageCrawl.io

> AI-powered website change monitoring and change detection platform

PageCrawl.io monitors web pages for changes and sends instant notifications when content updates. Track prices, availability, text, documents, and more using real browser rendering with AI-powered change summaries.

## What PageCrawl Does

PageCrawl.io is a cloud-based website monitoring service that detects changes on any web page and notifies you through your preferred channels. It uses real browsers (with full JavaScript support) to render pages exactly as a human would see them, then compares snapshots to detect what changed. AI analyzes every change to provide plain-language summaries and importance scoring, so you only get notified when it matters.

## Core Capabilities

- **Website Change Monitoring**: Detect text, visual, and structural changes on any webpage
- **Real Browser Rendering**: JavaScript-enabled monitoring for dynamic sites and SPAs
- **AI-Powered Change Summaries**: Get plain-language summaries of what changed, included on all plans
- **AI Importance Scoring**: Every change scored 0-100 by importance, set thresholds to filter noise
- **AI Pattern Learning**: Dismiss changes and AI learns, similar low-value changes are auto-filtered
- **Multi-Channel Alerts**: Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, webhooks, web push notifications
- **Element-Level Tracking**: Track specific elements with CSS/XPath selectors or monitor full pages
- **File Monitoring**: Track changes in PDFs, Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), PowerPoint (.pptx), CSV files
- **Cloud Document Monitoring**: Google Sheets, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint documents
- **Visual Comparison**: Side-by-side screenshot diffs and historical screenshot archives
- **Automatic Page Discovery**: Find new pages on any website via sitemap scanning, deep crawl, or URL scanning
- **Check Frequencies**: From every 2 minutes (Ultimate) to monthly schedules
- **Smart False-Positive Reduction**: Filter dates, ads, popups, dynamic content, combined with AI noise filtering
- **Cloudflare and Bot Detection Bypass**: Automatic bypass of anti-bot systems
- **Password-Protected Pages**: Monitor pages behind login forms
- **Browser Actions**: Click buttons, type text, remove overlays, scroll, wait for elements before capture
- **Team Collaboration**: Workspaces, user roles (owner, admin, standard, viewer), shared monitors
- **Review Boards**: Kanban-like board for compliance teams to review and flag changes
- **Bulk Management**: Import multiple URLs, bulk edit configurations, reusable page templates
- **Web Archiving**: Save complete web archives in WACZ format (Ultimate plan)
- **Monitoring Reports**: Daily, weekly, or monthly digest reports with AI summaries
- **Data Exports**: Export change history to Excel spreadsheets

## Tracking Modes

- **Full Page**: Monitor the entire visible text content of a page
- **Content Only**: Ignores navigation, headers, footers, focuses on main content
- **Reader Mode**: Uses Readability algorithm for clean article extraction
- **Price**: Auto-detects prices and tracks availability for e-commerce pages
- **Specific Text**: Track a specific element using CSS or XPath selector
- **Specific Number**: Track a numeric value on a page using CSS or XPath selector
- **Visual/Screenshot**: Detect visual layout changes via screenshot comparison
- **Links**: Track all links on a page for changes
- **HTML**: Monitor raw HTML source changes
- **File Hash**: Track binary file changes via SHA-256 hash

## Integrations

- Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram
- Email with Cc support and digest reports
- Web push notifications (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari 16+)
- Webhooks for custom integrations
- Zapier (2000+ apps)
- n8n (community node with full API support)
- Google Sheets sync (auto-sync monitored data)
- Dropbox sync (auto-save screenshots)
- RSS feeds
- Home Assistant (via webhooks and REST API)
- RESTful API for programmatic access
- Browser extension for Chrome and Firefox
- iOS Safari bookmarklet
- MCP Server for AI assistants

## MCP Server (AI Assistant Integration)

PageCrawl.io provides an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI assistants manage website monitors through natural conversation. Available on Enterprise and Ultimate plans.

- **MCP Server URL**: https://pagecrawl.io/mcp
- **Authentication**: OAuth 2.0
- **Compatible with**: Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client
- **Capabilities**: List workspaces, list/search monitors, get monitor details, get change history, add new monitors, trigger checks, manage tags, view diffs

## Common Use Cases

- **E-commerce & Price Monitoring**: Track competitor prices, product availability, inventory restocks
- **Compliance & Legal**: Monitor terms of service, privacy policies, regulatory filings, legal documents
- **Competitive Intelligence**: Track competitor websites for pricing, product, hiring, and content changes
- **Stock and Restock Alerts**: GPU stock (NVIDIA RTX), gaming consoles (PS5), networking equipment (UniFi), Tesla inventory, Raspberry Pi
- **Job Hunting**: Get alerts for new job postings on career pages and job boards
- **SEC Filing Monitoring**: Track EDGAR filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, Form 4, 13-F)
- **Software Release Tracking**: Monitor release notes, changelogs, and version updates
- **Academic Research**: Track research papers, news, and competitor publications
- **Real Estate**: Monitor new property listings and price changes
- **Content Monitoring**: Track news sites, blogs, government pages for updates
- **Smart Home Automation**: Integrate with Home Assistant for automated responses to web changes

## Key Differentiators

- **Real browser rendering**: Unlike simple HTTP scrapers, PageCrawl uses real browsers that execute JavaScript, handle SPAs, and render pages exactly as humans see them
- **AI included on all plans**: Every plan includes AI credits for change summaries and smart filtering, no separate AI add-on needed
- **BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)**: Connect your own API key from OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, or OpenRouter for unlimited AI usage. OpenRouter gives access to any AI model available on the market, so you can choose the model that best fits your needs and budget
- **No data selling**: PageCrawl does not sell user data, offer data packs, or use customer data for AI training. Your data stays private.
- **File monitoring built-in**: Track PDFs, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, CSV, Google Sheets, and SharePoint documents natively
- **Automatic page discovery**: Find and start monitoring new pages automatically as they appear on any website
- **MCP Server for AI assistants**: Manage monitors through AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT
- **Browser extension**: One-click monitoring from Chrome or Firefox
- **Cloud-based, no installation**: Entirely browser-based, nothing to install
- **Since 2018**: Serving thousands of organizations including Microsoft, New York Times, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, HubSpot, Yahoo, EY, and Stanford

## Pricing

- **Free Forever**: $0/month, 6 pages, 220 checks/mo, 60-min frequency, 90-day history, 10 AI credits, all integrations
- **Standard**: $8/month (or $80/year), 100 pages, 15,000 checks/mo, 15-min frequency, 12-month history, 100 AI credits, API access
- **Enterprise** (Most Popular): $30/month (or $300/year), 500 pages, 100,000 checks/mo, 5-min frequency, unlimited history, 1,000 AI credits, SSO, premium proxy pool, MCP server
- **Ultimate**: $99/month (or $990/year), 1,000 pages, 100,000 checks/mo, 2-min frequency, unlimited history, 5,000 AI credits with Pro-tier models, web archiving (WACZ), dedicated account manager, MCP server
- **Custom plans**: Available for higher volumes, 1-minute checks, and enterprise needs. Contact hey@pagecrawl.io
- All paid plans scale with quantity multipliers for more pages and checks

## Enterprise Features

- SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On (Azure AD, Google Workspace, Okta, OneLogin)
- User access roles and permissions (owner, admin, standard, viewer)
- Premium proxy pool for difficult-to-access sites
- CAPTCHA bypass service (additional cost)
- Higher quality screenshots
- MCP Server for AI assistant integration
- Invoice and PO billing (Ultimate, annual)
- Dedicated account manager (Ultimate)

## API

PageCrawl.io offers a RESTful API for programmatic access to:
- Create and manage monitored pages
- Retrieve change history and diffs
- Get screenshots and visual comparisons
- Configure notifications and integrations
- Trigger manual checks
- Manage folders, labels, and workspaces

## Support

- Free plan: Community support only
- Standard: Email support within 72 hours
- Enterprise: Premium email support within 24 hours
- Ultimate: Priority support within 24 hours with dedicated account manager
- Contact: hey@pagecrawl.io (sales), help_me@pagecrawl.io (support)

## Resources

- Website: https://pagecrawl.io
- Help Center: https://pagecrawl.io/help
- Blog: https://pagecrawl.io/blog
- Pricing: https://pagecrawl.io/pricing
- API Documentation: https://pagecrawl.io/help/features/article/does-pagecrawl-support-api
- Contact: https://pagecrawl.io/contact-us
- About: https://pagecrawl.io/about
- Privacy Policy: https://pagecrawl.io/privacy-policy
- Security: https://pagecrawl.io/security-statement
- GDPR: https://pagecrawl.io/gdpr
- Roadmap: https://pagecrawl.io/roadmap
- Full LLM reference: https://pagecrawl.io/llms-full.txt