Tracking
Tracking watches a web page for you and tells you when something you care about happens. For example: "Tell me when this jacket drops under 150."
Setting up a watch
- Go to Profile → Tracking and tap Track a page, or
- ask a Spark in chat to watch a page for you.
Then choose:
Tell me when
| Option | Example |
|---|---|
| Any change | The page changes at all. The first check just records how it looks now. |
| Shows some text | The page shows "Back in stock". Up to 200 characters; upper and lower case do not matter. |
| Price drops to | The price is at or below 49.99. |
How often: every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, every hour (the default), every 6 hours, or every day.
A watch tells you once when its condition becomes true. It stays quiet while that stays true, and tells you again only if it stops being true and then happens again.
When it finds something
You get one notification, and a message in the Space of the Spark that set up the watch.
Managing watches
Each watch shows its state (Watching, Retrying, Paused or Paused after errors) and when it last checked and will check next. Buttons: Pause or Resume, Check now, and Delete (tap twice to confirm).
Upcoming checks also appear in Pulse and the Scheduled hub.
Limits
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Fastest check | Every 15 minutes |
| Slowest check | Once a day from the form (a Spark can set up to once a week) |
| Watches per person | Up to 20, including paused ones |
| Automatic pause | After 5 failed checks in a row, with one "Stopped tracking" notice. Only you can resume it. |
| Cost | Checks do not use credits. Resuming and Check now need an active subscription. |
Tracking reads the page as it is sent, without running scripts or signing in. It cannot watch pages that need a login, that build their content with scripts in the browser, or that redirect somewhere else.