# PageProbe - Automatic Page Monitor

> Create automatic monitors for detecting and scanning changes on web pages, evaluate content based on conditions you define and trigger actions such as notifications, sounds, emails etc.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/pageprobe](https://chrome-stats.com/d/pageprobe)

## Overview

- **ID:** `pageprobe`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nodetics
- **Category:** alerts-updates,shopping
- **Daily users:** 983
- **Weekly downloads:** 23
- **Rating:** 4.62 / 5 (63 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.38.1
- **Last updated:** 2022-09-28
- **First published:** 2019-06-22
- **Size:** 1.71 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pageprobe/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pageprobe/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pageprobe/privacy/)

## Description

**PageProbe** is a powerful Chrome extension that automates monitoring of any accessible web page for changes and updates. It lets users create unlimited trackers to follow content such as product prices, stock values, social media stats, auction bids, and more. By defining custom conditions and actions, users receive timely notifications through various channels including desktop alerts, email, Discord, Slack, Telegram, and others.

With advanced features like XPath and JSONPath support, real-time live content scanning, complex boolean logic for conditions, and cron-style scheduling, PageProbe ensures you never miss important changes. It also offers data history logging, chart visualizations, and easy organization of trackers in groups. All monitoring runs locally without requiring an account, providing a secure and efficient solution to save time and money.

PageProbe is ideal for buyers seeking discounts, traders monitoring stock prices, social media managers tracking engagement, developers watching software status, and more. The extension's rich action options enable automation workflows, alerts, and updates tailored to your needs.

## Rankings

- #3,324 — Overall
- #90 — Alerts & Updates
- #138 — Shopping
- #6 — monitor
- #24 — automation
- #29 — automate

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `http://*/`
- `https://*/`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise PageProbe for fast, stable performance, ease of use, and strong, customizable notifications ideal for price/page tracking. It remembers settings automatically and is free. However, there are occasional reliability issues and several UI/UX annoyances (e.g., setup controls sometimes not working and a blinking pinned tab on dynamic pages). Some reviewers also note missing features and request improvements such as editing/removing trackers, more history storage, and additional notification options. Overall, a solid, feature-rich tool with room for polish.

### Pros

- Fast, glitch-free performance.
- Easy to use and lightweight.
- Rich, customizable notifications, including audible alerts and multiple channels (e.g., Telegram).
- Excellent for price/page tracking with frequent checks.
- Remembers previous settings automatically and is free.

### Cons

- Intermittent reliability issues; some users report the extension not working properly at times.
- UI/UX annoyances and bugs, including non-functional setup controls and pinned-tab blinking on dynamic pages.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/pageprobe)