How to Get an Email When a Website Changes
There are a few ways to get an email when a website changes: a page monitor such as Visualping or changedetection.io, a browser extension, the site's own RSS feed or 'notify me' button, or one sentence handed to MailMeWhen, which needs no account or app.
A price page, a job listing, a 'sold out' button, a notice that might be updated, a page you refresh every morning hoping something moved. Checking by hand works right up until the day you forget.
Ways to watch a website for changes
One sentence for a website-change alert
With MailMeWhen you write down the page and what counts as a change worth knowing about — 'when the price on this page drops below 200', 'when this notice is updated', 'when a new date appears'. We watch it and write to you only when it happens.
Most of the pages we watch belong to somebody's working day: a competitor's pricing page, a supplier's price list, a policy or tender notice, a page someone now opens by hand every morning. Name the number or the line that matters and you hear from us only when that one moves.
The first 7 days are free with no payment details; after that it's $5/month for that one page, and it stops by itself if you don't subscribe. Reply once to stop at any time.
Good to know about website-change alerts
Be specific about which part matters. 'Tell me when the page changes' fires on every ad rotation; 'tell me when the delivery date changes' fires only when it should.
Pages behind a login, or that need a click to reveal the content, are the hard cases — we'll tell you honestly if it's one we can't watch.
Try it — hand us this sentence:
Watch this page for me: [paste the link]. Email me when the price on it drops, or when it says 'in stock' again.
Common questions
How often is the page checked?
There is no interval to set. Say in your request how quickly you need to know — 'the same day is fine' or 'once a week is enough' — and the first letter, within 24 hours, confirms what is being watched and how. Until the change you described happens, you hear nothing.
Can you watch a page that needs a login?
No. Pages behind a login, or pages that need a click to reveal the content, are ones we can't watch, and the first letter says so honestly. Public pages — a price, a notice, a job listing, a stock status — are the normal case.
How do I avoid false alarms from ads or rotating content?
Name the part that matters instead of the whole page — 'the price', 'the delivery date', 'the words in stock'. An ad rotating or a date ticking over elsewhere on the page then doesn't count. You write it in plain words; there is nothing to select or configure.