Visualping

Visualping Chrome Extension

Visualping Chrome Extension - Monitor Websites for Changes

Visualping is a Chrome extension that visually monitors websites for changes and sends email notifications. It is used for competition monitoring, price checks, ticket availability tracking, and more.
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Extension stats

Rating: 4.58
(1,064)
Version: 4.7.4 (Last updated: 2024-05-14)
Creation date: 2017-08-15
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • unlimitedStorage
  • activeTab
  • tabs
  • notifications
  • scripting
  • offscreen
  • cookies
  • alarms
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 1.26M

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Visualping is a simple service for monitoring websites for changes. You'll receive an email notification when it detects any change in the content of the page.

Version 4.7.4

  • minor bug fix

Compared to other monitoring services, Visualping monitors pages visually and not based on the HTML markup. Use the service for competition monitoring, price checks, ticket availability tracking and more.

You can either choose to monitor the whole website or just an area of a website. To select the area, just drag a selection on the screenshot shown within the extension.

Happy Monitoring!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Simple and immediate to use
  • Free for basic needs
  • Effective at monitoring website changes
  • Does what it promises, providing notifications for changes
  • Useful tool for users needing to track website updates
Cons
  • Opens updated pages in a new window with no option to change this behavior
  • Lacks options to edit settings after creating a job
  • No default time setting for monitoring frequency, requiring manual adjustment for each new job
  • Has been flagged as malware by some security software after a recent update
  • Experiencing JavaScript errors on webpages when the extension is installed
Most mentioned
  • Opens updated pages in a new window
  • Lack of edit options for jobs
  • No default time setting for checks
  • Effective change notifications
  • Recent malware flagging issues
User reviews
by Andrea Dell'anna, 2025-01-07

by JC, 2025-01-06

by SHIV Patel, 2024-12-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Visualping requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Visualping has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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