WebSite-Watcher Changelog

What's new in WebSite-Watcher 2024 (24.1)

Mar 18, 2024

Bookmark action "Run program": New option "Run minimized"
Bookmark check: Huge performance improvment when processing huge CSS files
Plugins: The function GetComparisonInfo did not return correct values.
Forum plugins improved
Plugin IDE: Smaller improvements when debugging a plugin script
Minor improvements and optimizations to the new plugin scripting engine
CloudSync: Synchronization via rclone improved
Improved handling of IFRAMEs
Filtering engine no longer uses title tag from svg images
Convert Instagram to RSS: compatible with the latest Instagram page source
Filter Assistant (and other windows with embedded Chromium browser) could be hidden behind the main window under rare circumstances
Plugins: Sleep command did not work correctly
Smaller fixes and improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 2024 (24.0) (Jan 24, 2024)

New check technology: Edge/Browser. You can try to use this technology when a server detects the other technologies as bot.
Check technology Screenshot: Edge can be used as browser engine.
The Plugin system has a completely new scripting engine. The new scripting engine has a new syntax. For compatibility reasons, plugins created with the old plugin system will continue to work for the time being. However, new plugins can only be created with the new plugin system.
The check technology "Chromium" has a new alternative method to get the page content: "Collect". This method analyzes all transferred documents and collects them to a single page. This method might be useful if WebSite-Watcher cannot resolve IFRAMES or other embedded elements.
Twitter/X lists can be monitored via RSS feed
When you insert new bookmarks, WebSite-Watcher first searches for duplicates in the selected folder, then, if not found, in all folders.
WebSite-Watcher ignores the soft-hyphen character (Unicode character U+00AD) in web pages. This character could also be misused to trigger updates in tools such as WebSite-Watcher.
New script commands: StringToFile, FileToString, MinutesAgo, HoursAgo, Now. (description and example see help file)
Chromium/Browser: When using the option to get the page content via PDF, WebSite-Watcher removes all CSS before printing the content to PDF. This produces more reliable results and prevents truncated text.
Proxy exclusion list: If a specified domain starts with a dot, then no proxy will be used for all sub-domains. Eg: .domain.com will not use a proxy for news.domain.com, download.domain.com etc, but will use a proxy for domain.com
Chromium Check Macros improved
Improved automatic detection of character sets (if they are not defined in pages or server logs)
Download Manager: Improved handling of some Cloudflare protected files
Unicode characters were not sent correctly in Pushover messages
Check technology "Chromium / Browser": Proxy exclusion list did not work correctly
Executing plugins could fail under certain circumstances
Smaller fixes and improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.6) (Sep 27, 2023)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.5) (Jul 17, 2023)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.4) (Jun 2, 2023)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.3) (Apr 25, 2023)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.2) (Mar 14, 2023)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.1) (Feb 14, 2023)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2023 (23.0) (Feb 7, 2023)

Important info before updating to v23:
Starting with v23, WebSite-Watcher is only available as 64-bit version. The last 32-bit version is v22.3
Databases saved with v23 cannot be opened with previous versions of WebSite-Watcher. If you plan to downgrade, it's recommended to keep a database backup of the previous version
Removed functionality: Newsgroups (NNTP protocol). If you still have some newsgroups you want to monitor, you can install a previous version as portable edition and use this installation for Newsgroups
Most important changes:
Wizard for adding new bookmark re-implemented (contains much more logic and also detects available RSS feeds)
Local Website Archive is now installed automatically with WebSite-Watcher and must not be maintained and updated separately
Improved integration of Local Website Archive
Mastodon pages supported (simply add a Mastodon page via the New-bookmark-Wizard in the toolbar)
Proxy Rotation: Change the used proxy with each check run (Business Edition only)
Dark Mode: The main window can be displayed in dark mode
Internal browser/Dark Mode: Checked bookmarks can optionally be converted and displayed in dark mode
Internal browser: Send page by e-mail uses now the configured SMTP server (an external e-mail client with MAPI support is no longer required)
Chromium Check Macros improved
New filter: Minimum percentage of changes
Check-by-screenshot: New filter "Minimum percent of changes" + "Test filter" in bookmark properties
Improved detection and handling of Cloudflare protected pages
Support of Cloudflare protected RSS/Atom feeds
Support of Cloudflare protected PDF/Word/Excel files
Synchronization with the WebSite-Watcher App: sync via WebDAV supported
CloudSync can use the tool "rclone" to synchronize bookmarks between PCs
CloudSync: perfomance improvement (up to 6 times faster)
CloudSync: options for synchronizing downloaded images
CloudSync: improved and easier configuration
Integrated AD Blocker improved
Scripting language: new built-in functions "IntToStr" and "StrToInt"
RSS feeds: Improved handling of feed items without title
RSS feeds: More media content can be extracted
New program tweak: CheckSortedBookmarkList=name (Sorts the bookmarks by name before adding them to the checking queue)
Checking PDF files by file date or by file size could fail under certain circumstances
Most third party components that we bought in the past (many of them were no longer developed or maintained) were replaced with self-developed components
Many performance improvements
Tons of other small changes and improvements that we did not add to this log
Other Notes:
Engine for regular expressions replaced. All regular expressions that were created with the filter assistant will still work without problems. If you created regular expressions manually using some advanced techniques (not listed in the WebSite-Watcher manual), then it's recommended to test your regular expressions if they still work
New CloudSync format: You have to backup to the sync-folder the first time you run CloudSync to have a new base for synchronization
New backup format: WebSite-Watcher cannot restore backups that were created with a previous version. It's only possible to restore backups that were made with WebSite-Watcher 2023 or higher
Import bookmarks from ZIP files: It's only possible to import bookmarks that were exported with WebSite-Watcher 22.2 or higher
Scripting language: parameters for the CloudSync command have been changed, it might be required to update scripts

New in WebSite-Watcher 2022 (22.3) (Sep 27, 2022)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2022 (22.2) (Jul 11, 2022)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2022 (22.1) (Mar 31, 2022)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2022 (22.0) (Jan 27, 2022)

Windows 11 officially supported
Max simultaneous checks with the check technology "Chromium/Browser" increased from 3 to 10 which offers much better performance when checking many bookmarks with this technology (in previous versions, simultaneous Chromium/Browser checks were limited to 3)
Internal browser: New tab "Changes". This tab only shows the highlighted changes.
Bookmark properties + Advanced + Open bookmark: Option to open the bookmark in the "Changes" tab
Bookmark action / Send e-mail: New option to only send highlighted changes
Bookmark action / Send e-mail: New option to attach screenshot with highlighted changes
Bookmark properties + Actions + Send e-mail: New feature "Preview message"
Bookmark properties + Actions + Send e-mail: New feature "Send test e-mail"
Custom columns: Number of custom columns increased from 5 to 10
Bookmark list: new column "Method" that shows the used check technology (values: C=Chromium, S=Screenshot, IE=Internet Explorer, C-Macro, IE-Macro)
Bookmark list: new column "AutoWatch" (shows if AutoWatch is enabled)
Improved memory usage when using the check technology "Chromium/Browser"
"Find Bookmarks" and "Find folder" are now two different functions and different shortcuts can be defined (in previous versions it was dependent if the folder tree or the bookmark list was focused)
Browser integration: Add bookmarks from browser Brave
Virtual folders: New options for the SendMail action: "Send simple version", "Send only changes" and "Attach screenshot"
Advanced setup options, eg. to pre-define options or to automatically insert the license key when installing WebSite-Watcher (Business Edition only).
New program tweak: PauseCheckIfWindowExists - Pauses AutoWatch or a running bookmark check if one of the defined windows is in foreground. You can, for example, use this feature when working with a certain program or playing a game and you don't want to check bookmarks in that time.
Integrated AD-Blocker improved
Improved handling of responsive images
Check technology "Standard" renamed to "Internal"
Send e-mails: option to send text mails removed. E-mails are now always sent in HTML format.
Jump to the first/next change did not work correctly under certain circumstances
Changes side bar was not displayed after maximizing the internal browser
Various optimizations for Windows 11
Check technology "Chromium/Browser": Improved detection if a file is a PDF document
Smaller fixes and improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 2021 (21.5) (Sep 27, 2021)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2021 (21.4) (Jul 1, 2021)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2021 (21.3) (May 19, 2021)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2021 (21.2) (Apr 15, 2021)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2021 (21.1) (Mar 16, 2021)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2021 (21.0) (Feb 18, 2021)

Cosmetic filters: This is an extremely powerful new feature to completely remove unwanted content from a page. Cosmetic filters are applied before the page is processed by WebSite-Watcher. Result is or can be a (much) smaller page with only the content you want to monitor. This feature can also be used to remove cookie banners, floating windows etc.
See Video-Tutorials
Check technology "Default" uses now an internal Cookie database (instead of IE Cookies)
Check technology "Screenshot" is now based on Chromium (instead of Internet Explorer)
Check technology "Screenshot" can now be executed in Incognito mode
CSS filters: additional rules
css(name) ... default behavior, matches all elements with id="name" or class="name"
css(#name) ... matches all elements with id="name"
css(.name) ... matches all elements with class="name"
css(.name*) ... matches all elements with class attribute containing "name" (will match class="name name2")
Right click bookmark + Extras + Re-Initialize page: This can be useful when changes to the bookmark properties will not take effect until the next update is detected. This feature allows you to test changes to the bookmark properties immediately.
Chromium Macros improved: More steps can be recorded
Dropbox API: Support for short-lived tokens. It's required that you re-connect to Dropbox.
Connecting WSW with Dropbox could cause a false message that the Dropbox folder is not found
WebSite-Watcher could cause a crash when closed via Windows Shutdown
Improved behavior when closing WebSite-Watcher via Windows-Shutdown
Special filter "Watch all changes in image addresses": WebSite-Watcher will insert all these image addresses to the end of the page, so you can see in your browser which addresses are changed.
Special filter "Watch all changes in link addresses": WebSite-Watcher will insert all these link addresses to the end of the page, so you can see in your browser which addresses are changed.
Bookmark action "Local Website Archive": Save entered notes
Script command "BackupToZip": New parameter /NoCacheFiles. The created backup file will be much smaller and only contain the bookmark database with all required files and configurations.
Shortcuts can be defined for Browser+Back and Browser+Forward
Shortcuts window: Search feature
New program tweak: BrowserAcceptLanguage=
Lets you configure the "accept-language" HTTP header. This tweak will be used for the internal browser and for bookmark checks that are based on Chromium (Chromium/Browser, Chromium-Macros and Check-by-screenshot). For more information about this header search the web for "HTTP Accept-Language".
Default value is: en-US,en
Example: BrowserAcceptLanguage=de-DE,de,en-US,en
Smaller improvements and fixes

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 (20.6) (Nov 18, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 (20.5) (Oct 13, 2020)

WebSite-Watcher uses the Chromium browser engine to display bookmarks. Internet Explorer is no longer used to display web pages inside WebSite-Watcher.
Tons of GUI updates and internal changes to provide compatibility to the new Chromium component
The 32bit edition supports the Chromium/Browser check technology
Check technology "Chromium/Browser": Optional Incognito mode to monitor a page without using Cookies
Check technology "Chromium/Browser": Alternative method to get page content (via Print/PDF functionality). Can be used for pages for which Chromium doesn't offer useful page source code. This option prints the page to a PDF file which is then converted automatically into HTML format for further processing.
Support of webp images
Chromium Macros improved: More steps can be recorded
Facebook RSS feeds: The function "Convert page to RSS" is compatible with Twitter pages (previous versions of WSW no longer worked because Twitter depreciated their legacy layout)
Facebook RSS feeds: The function "Convert page to RSS" is compatible with the new Facebook layout
Facebook groups: jobs pages can be checked via RSS feeds
Performance improvements when checking Facebook pages
Bookmark action "Export": Create export folder automatically if not available
YouTube Atom feeds show the media content in the articles
Login to Google accounts no longer worked in previous versions
Check technology Chromium/Browser: If a page shows a Javascript alert, it was not possible to monitor the page. Javascript alerts are now suppressed to work around this problem.
If the CloudSync feature is started via script while WebSite-Watcher is minimized or in the Windows notification area, then the progress window will no longer be displayed in front of other windows
Macro Recording: Button to add the command "Scroll page down"
Macro Recording: Button to add the command "Wait 5 seconds"
Macro Recording: Display warning when stopping macro recording if you have clicked "Check this box before performing a LOGOUT" without logging out of your account.
New bookmark action "Script" which will allows us to add certain commands in future releases
Bookmark action - Script command "CheckFolder": This allows you to only check a certain bookmark folder when a boookmark is updated.
Browser integration: Ctrl+Click onto the WSW-Eye button shows the bookmarks in the popup menu
Improved support of Brotli-compressed web pages
Twitter feeds: Number of simultaneous checks is now limited to a single connection. This should help to reduce the "RSS feed has no articles" message.
New optional browser toolbar button: Open archived pages (LWA)
Internet Explorer Macros improved: More type of logins can be recorded
WebSite-Watcher regularly clears the Chromium cache for bookmark checks that use the check technology "Chromium Browser" or Chromium Macros. This ensures that Chromium will not use cached files when bookmarks are checked.
Improved detection of corrupted bookmark databases
Backup/Restore: WebSite-Watcher automatically tests the backup files to ensure that the created zip files are not corrupted
Backup/Restore feature improved
Content of RSS feeds was not extracted under certain circumstances
Check for new version: Notification could block some operations under certain circumstances
External browser tabs removed as they are no longer required to open pages with the Chromium browser engine
Send updates to WebSite-Watcher app: Optimizations to avoid exceeding cache file size limits
Many smaller changes and tweaks
Minimum operating system is now Windows 7 (previous versions of Windows are no longer supported)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 14 (Oct 8, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 13 (Oct 1, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 12 (Sep 22, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 11 (Sep 17, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 10 (Sep 16, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 9 (Aug 9, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 8 (Aug 7, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 7 (Jul 14, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 6 (Jul 14, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 5 (Jul 14, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 4 (Jul 14, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 3 (Jul 14, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 2 (Jul 14, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 20.5 Beta 1 (May 20, 2020)

WеbЅіtе-Wаtсhеr uѕеѕ thе Сhrоmіum brоwѕеr еngіnе tо dіѕрlау bооkmаrkѕ. Іntеrnеt Ехрlоrеr іѕ nо lоngеr uѕеd tо dіѕрlау wеb раgеѕ іnѕіdе WеbЅіtе-Wаtсhеr.
Тоnѕ оf GUІ uрdаtеѕ аnd іntеrnаl сhаngеѕ tо рrоvіdе соmраtіbіlіtу tо thе nеw Сhrоmіum соmроnеnt
Тhе 32bіt еdіtіоn ѕuрроrtѕ thе Сhrоmіum/Вrоwѕеr сhесk tесhnоlоgу
Сhесk tесhnоlоgу „Сhrоmіum/Вrоwѕеr“: Орtіоnаl Іnсоgnіtо mоdе tо mоnіtоr а раgе wіthоut uѕіng Сооkіеѕ
Сhесk tесhnоlоgу „Сhrоmіum/Вrоwѕеr“: Аltеrnаtіvе mеthоd tо gеt раgе соntеnt (vіа Рrіnt/РDF funсtіоnаlіtу). Саn bе uѕеd fоr раgеѕ fоr whісh Сhrоmіum dоеѕn’t оffеr uѕеful раgе ѕоurсе соdе. Тhіѕ орtіоn рrіntѕ thе раgе tо а РDF fіlе whісh іѕ thеn соnvеrtеd аutоmаtісаllу іntо НТМL fоrmаt fоr furthеr рrосеѕѕіng.
Ѕuрроrt оf wеbр іmаgеѕ
Сhrоmіum-Масrоѕ: Ѕuрроrt fоr mоrе tесhnіquеѕ thаt саn bе аutоmаtеd
Тwіttеr раgеѕ аrе nоw сhесkеd wіth thе Сhrоmіum/Вrоwѕеr tесhnоlоgу
Fасеbооk раgеѕ аrе nоw сhесkеd wіth thе Сhrоmіum/Вrоwѕеr tесhnоlоgу (іnѕtеаd оf ІЕ/Вrоwѕеr)
Реrfоrmаnсе іmрrоvеmеntѕ whеn сhесkіng Fасеbооk раgеѕ
Вооkmаrk асtіоn „Ехроrt“: Сrеаtе ехроrt fоldеr аutоmаtісаllу іf nоt аvаіlаblе
Fасеbооk grоuрѕ: јоbѕ раgеѕ саn bе сhесkеd vіа RЅЅ fееdѕ
Ехtеrnаl brоwѕеr tаbѕ rеmоvеd аѕ thеу аrе nо lоngеr rеquіrеd tо ореn раgеѕ wіth thе Сhrоmіum brоwѕеr еngіnе
Вrоwѕеr іntеgrаtіоn: Сtrl+Сlісk оntо thе WЅW-Еуе buttоn ѕhоwѕ thе bооkmаrkѕ іn thе рорuр mеnu
Іmрrоvеd ѕuрроrt оf Вrоtlі-соmрrеѕѕеd wеb раgеѕ
Nеw орtіоnаl brоwѕеr tооlbаr buttоn: Ореn аrсhіvеd раgеѕ (LWА)
Ѕеnd uрdаtеѕ tо WеbЅіtе-Wаtсhеr арр: Орtіmіzаtіоnѕ tо аvоіd ехсееdіng сасhе fіlе ѕіzе lіmіtѕ
Маnу ѕmаllеr сhаngеѕ аnd twеаkѕ
Міnіmum ореrаtіng ѕуѕtеm іѕ nоw Wіndоwѕ 7 (рrеvіоuѕ vеrѕіоnѕ оf Wіndоwѕ аrе nо lоngеr ѕuрроrtеd)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 (20.3) (Mar 26, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 (20.2) (Mar 23, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 (20.1) (Feb 12, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2020 (20.0) (Feb 5, 2020)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2019 (19.6) (Oct 8, 2019)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2019 (19.5) (Jul 24, 2019)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2019 (19.4) (Jun 12, 2019)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2019 (19.3) (Apr 30, 2019)

Ransomware Detection: If WebSite-Watcher detects Ransomware on your PC, it will stop running WSW tasks, lock and protect as many important WSW files as possible, and you will get notified via user interface, by e-mail or via Pushover. This feature is disabled by default and can be turned on in the program configuration (Advanced + Ransomware Detection).
Send status messages via Pushover, for example when e-mails could not be sent. If you use WebSite-Watcher 24/7 on a server and if you're a Pushover user, then this is a very quick way to get notified on your phone when a problem occurs.
Browser integration via WSW eye button: WebSite-Watcher can grab URLs from all main browsers without installing an extra browser extension (if you have used the browser extension previously, you can remove it from your Internet Browser). This new method works with Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, IE and Edge.
Send e-mail: New option "Use absolute image URLs in HTML mails" (program configuration). If this option is enabled, WebSite-Watcher will use absolute URLs for images in HTML mails, independently if you download images to your hard disk when checking bookmarks. This option is enabled by default and can dramatically reduce the size of HTML mails. Also Facebook/Twitter/Instagram bookmarks will benefit from that option.
Send e-mail: New subject variable {counter}. This counter increments by 1 with every e-mail sent. In your mailbox you can then see at a glance if a message did not come through because of a missing number.
Twitter RSS feeds improved: WSW also tries to monitor the content of embedded objects
Send e-mails: Improved handling of WebP images
Internal Browser: Opening a page with highlighted changes in the Text tab automatically jumps to the first change
External Chromium Browser Tabs: Optimizations when downloading exe/zip files directly from the checked page
Download Manager improvements to work around conflicts with Virus Scanners
Download Manager: Clicking "Abort active downloads" will pause the Download Manager until you click the Continue button
New option "Extract TITLE parameter from HTML tags" (Bookmark properties + Advanced + HTML). Extracts the text content from the ALT and TITLE parameters (from any HTML tag) and inserts it into the page. This makes it easy to monitor the contents of these parameters.
Internet Explorer Macros improved
Improved handling of image lazy loading
Follow-Links: Regular expressions to avoid duplicates didn't work correctly under certain circumstances
Phone bookmarks: Smaller fixes and improvements
WSW Eye is no longer displayed when Thunderbird is the active application
Smaller fixes and improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 2019 (19.2) (Mar 14, 2019)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2019 (19.1) (Feb 14, 2019)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2019 (19.0) (Jan 17, 2019)

New check technology: Chromium/Browser - This technology opens a hidden Chromium based browser window to check a bookmark. If the other check technologies fail, chances are high that the page can be checked with this new method. (Please note that this new technique requires Windows 7 64 bit or higher. It is not available on Windows XP or 32 bit systems).
Check-by-Screenshot: Area can be selected interactively with the mouse. This makes it super easy to select the area you want to monitor.
Check-by-Screenshot method improved
Facebook Groups can be checked via RSS feeds.
Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: RSS conversion improved
Huge performance improvements when monitoring and processing larger web pages. This improvement also affect smaller pages but is less noticeable.
Performance when creating Dropbox cache files for the WebSite-Watcher App significantly improved
New option "Prompt before stopping AutoWatch". This option is disabled by default and can be enabled in "Program configuration + Advanced + Messages".
Improved detection of IFRAMES when using the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser"
Improved handling of IFRAMES
Bookmark properties + Troubleshooting: New option to extract link URLs
Bookmark properties + Troubleshooting: New option to extract image URLs
Bookmark properties + Convert to simple HTML version: WebSite-Watcher tries to keep tables
Improved support for images which are loaded dynamically when opening a page
If PDF files could not be accessed with the default checking method, chances are high that they work with the Chromium method
Bookmarks which are checked with the screenshot method are sent correctly to the Website-Watcher App
Internal improvements when sending e-mails
AutoWatch: the option "Automatic time configuration" has been removed. If you have used this option, then you probably you have to re-define the check interval.
Manual check time settings: the option "Automatic time configuration" has been removed.
Smaller improvements and fixes

New in WebSite-Watcher 2018 (18.3) (Oct 17, 2018)

Facebook pages can be checked via RSS feeds. This option is turned on for all new facebook pages. To monitor the real page, open the bookmark properties and turn off the option "Convert page to RSS".
Twitter pages can be checked via RSS feeds.
Instagram pages can be checked via RSS feeds.
New bookmark action: Send page to the WebSite-Watcher App
Update on Keywords - New option "Save page even if no keywords found": This new option replaces the global program tweak "SavePageWhenNoKeywordsFound" and can now be configured per bookmark. Detailed description see help file. That option is turned off by default, if you have used the tweak "SavePageWhenNoKeywordsFound" then you have to enable that option individually as needed.
Record Internet Explorer Macros - New option "Ignore document CSS definitions": You can try that option if certain steps cannot be recorded properly, for example selecting a line in a drop-down-box
Action Send e-mail: New subject line variable {changes50a} - same as {changes50} but removes the text "NEW ITEMS(n):" from RSS feeds
Action Send e-mail: New subject line variable {changes50b} - same as {changes50} but removes the text "NEW ITEMS" from RSS feeds while keeping the number of new items
RSS feeds: Enhanced detection of the author field
CSS based filters work in combination with the "section" tag
Improved handling of errors in RSS/Atom feeds
Send e-mails: Improved error detection and reporting when e-mails cannot be sent
"Internet Explorer/Browser": Option to scroll pages down improved
WebSite-Watcher App: The Phone-Mode is no longer required to get notifications on your smartphone
WebSite-Watcher App: WebSite-Watcher reports error messages (eg. E-Mails could not be sent) to the WebSite-Watcher App
New program tweak: BookmarkPropertiesDefaultButton=check - Sets the "Check Now" button in the bookmark properties as default button. This is the button that is used when closing the bookmark properties with the Enter key.
The bookmark action "Export page" works in combination with the check-by-screenshot method (a png image will be exported)
Report/Export: Export fields are correctly encoded if the target file is a JSON file
Advanced connection rules: Table can be sorted by column
View + Statistics: The number of checks was reset to zero when a check reported an error
Many smaller improvements and optimizations

New in WebSite-Watcher 2018 18.2 (May 23, 2018)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2018 18.1 (May 22, 2018)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2018 18.0 (Jan 9, 2018)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2017 17.2 (Aug 25, 2017)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2017 17.1 (Apr 12, 2017)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2017 17.0 (Feb 17, 2017)

Ability to run multiple instances of WebSite-Watcher on the same PC. To run a second instance of WebSite-Watcher, you have to install a second copy of WebSite-Watcher as portable edition into a separate folder which can then be started and executed simultaneously to the first installation.
Cloud Sync: New feature to synchronize a bookmark database via the Cloud or a local/network drive. For example if you use WebSite-Watcher on your PC and on your notebook, you can easily synchronize your bookmark database via the Cloud. All data stored in the Cloud is encrypted with AES-256. This feature replaces the old Synchronize feature that was available in WebSite-Watcher 2016 and prior.
Bookmark properties + Advanced + Open page: Option to always open the checked bookmark in your external browser. You can use that option if opening a bookmark crashes the internal browser.
The bookmark actions "Send e-mail" and "Open bookmark" no longer need the action "Mark as read" when the bookmarks aren't opened within WebSite-Watcher. This work flow is now detected and handled automatically by WebSite-Watcher. A missing "Mark as read" action was often the culprit of a wrong behavior when sending out e-mails. To disable that new automatism, you can use the program tweak: ActionsAutomaticallyMarkAsRead=0
Send e-mail in text format + attach files: WSW now creates a ZIP file with related CSS/image files and attaches the ZIP (instead of just the HTML files without CSS/image files). The old behavior to send just HTML files without CSS/images can be enabled with the program tweak: ActionsSendMailAttachAsZip=0
New option "Don't display images" (in: Bookmark properties + Advanced + Images). Use that option if images overlap other areas in the page.
Script: New command CloudSync to synchronize bookmarks via Cloud
Performance improvement on certain PCs when checking bookmarks, especially on PCs without SSD
WebSite-Watcher supports images that are embedded in the source web pages or RSS feeds
RSS/Atom feeds - Black/Whitelist: Button "Test selected line"
x] RSS/Atom feeds: Improved detection and auto-correction of errors in RSS feeds
Bookmark properties / user defined User Agent: Easy way to set Chrome or Firefox as User Agent. This will insert the vairables {chrome} or {firefox} which will then be replaced by the correct user agent when the bookmark are checked.
Tools + Test server: Ping and Trace Route commands to test the availability of a server
Bookmark properties + Test server (drop down menu on the right side of the URL field): Ping and Trace Route commands to test the availability of a server
LinkedIn pages automatically use the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser"
Sending e-mails: process can be aborted
Executing scripts: Script errors are displayed in the WebSite-Watcher main window, for example when a defined target folder does not exist
Opening the bookmark properties with Alt+Enter no longer causes a sound
CSS filters improved (did not work in combination with certain HTML tags)
Download Manager: Shortcut "Del" to delete selected items
Plugins: New function "StringList_RemoveDuplicates"
WSW could crash when checking pages with changed SVG images
Keywords feature in Virtual Folders did not work for locally saved files and FTP files
MiniBrowser: Executing check macros can be aborted
If the internal browser is maximized, the password manager KeePass can be used to insert user/password into web pages (page title and URL are placed in the window title bar with is required for the KeePass autofill mechanism)
Absolute links are now correctly created for links GoogleGroups
Improved caclulation of absolute link addresses
AutoWatch countdown calculation optimized. If WebSite-Watcher checks a single bookmark every second, it could happen that the countown was 2 seconds. Now it should always be 1 second.
RSS feed postings could have the wrong character encoding under certain circumstances
Export statistics to Excel: First row was not exported
Internet Explorer Macros improved. Website-Watcher can follow more kind of links
Default shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+0 changed to Ctrl+9 (since Ctrl+Shift+0 can be used as global shortcut by Windows)
Highlighting keywords in the Analyze tab improved
Filter system: hellip character correctly supported
Improved compatibility with Win10/IE11
Sending e-mails: Underscore character was stripped from e-mail subjects
Smaller improvements and optimizations

New in WebSite-Watcher 2017 17.0 Beta 2 (Jan 25, 2017)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2016 16.3 (Oct 3, 2016)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2016 16.3 Beta 4 (Sep 23, 2016)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2016 16.3 Beta 3 (Sep 12, 2016)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2016 16.3 Beta 2 (Aug 19, 2016)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2016 16.3 Beta 1 (Aug 17, 2016)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2016 16.2 (Jun 13, 2016)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2016 16.1 (Jun 13, 2016)

[+] Add URL from Chrome: It's now possible to grab the URL from the currently opened Chrome browser tab (by installing a Chrome extension)
[+] RSS feeds / Black/White list: Support for wildcards and regular expressions with syntax: regex(...)
[+] RSS feeds / Black/White list: Supports whole-word feature when words are placed within quotes, eg: "keyword"
[+] RSS feeds / Ignore articles older than X days: Support additional date formats
[+] RSS feeds: WSW shows the author field (if available)
[+] Bookmarks that are monitored with the check-by-screenshot method can now correctly be sent as HTML e-mails
[+] New program tweak: CheckIEBrowserSingleConnection=1 - That tweak limits the simultaneous connections of bookmarks with the checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser" to 1 (same behavior as in WebSite-Watcher 2015 and lower). You can use that tweak if simulatenaous connections with the checking method "IE/Browser" cause problems on your system.
[x] Improved filtering of javascript (some pages could be displayed blank under rare circumstances)
[x] Bookmark properties / RSS: If the RSS options are disabled due to a pre-configuration in the folder properties, it's now possible to still call the Analysis function (which is no longer greyed out now).
[x] Follow-Links: URLs that start with TEL: are no longer inserted as new bookmarks
[x] Follow-Links: option "Don't follow links inside filtered parts" works better with CSS based ignore filters
[x] Sending e-mails: WebSite-Watcher no longer handles the server status code #354 as an error
[x] Improvements when checking facebook pages which could report check errors lately
[x] Improved support of SVG images
[x] Find bookmarks: WSW circulates the list when the end of the list is reached
[+] Find bookmarks: WSW shows a message if no results are found
[+] New command line parameter: /EXIT - exits a running WebSite-Watcher (this parameter also aborts a running bookmark check)
[+] Send e-mails: If a checked page could not be converted into HTML e-mail format, then WSW adds an information to the generated e-mail in text format that the e-mail in HTML format could not be created.
[+] Bookmark properties / Keywords window: Window caption shows the number of entered keywords
[x] The portable edition of WSW is now identified as IE11 when checking bookmarks (instead of IE10)
[-] CSS based watch filter: If no matches were found, then WSW could use the whole content to detect updates instead of putting out the warning "whole content filtered"
[-] The special filter "Minimum number of words" didn't work correctly with RSS/Atom feeds
[-] Recording an Internet Explorer Macro could crash under certain circumstances
[-] Reports / Variable wsw_url_removed_content: MAXLEN value wasn't used to display removed content
[-] Export to Excel: Field "action_sendmail_template" did not work
[-] Taskbar Icon could cause minor problems on Windows 10
Smaller fixes and internal improvements
Various language files updated

New in WebSite-Watcher 2016 16.0 (Jan 26, 2016)

Highlight keywords: Multiple keyword colors supported. Just add #colorname on the right side of a keyword definition to use an alternative color. Supported color names are: red, green, olive, lime, teal, blue, aqua, magenta, orange. You can also use the Keywords dialog to add/remove the colors.
Performance improvement: Bookmarks that use the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" or Internet Explorer Macros can be checked with multiple connections. The limit of one check at a time is no longer required and the checks work similar to the Standard checking method. Only Internet Explorer Macros per top level domain are limited to one check at a time. So if you have many bookmarks which use "Internet Explorer/Browser", you might see a huge performance improvement!
Performance improvement: HTTPS bookmarks from the same domain can be checked with simultaneous connections. So if you have many HTTPS bookmarks from the same domain (eg. facebook.com), you might see a huge performance improvement! Default value: 3 connections per domain.
Black/Whitelist for RSS feeds to include/exclude certain articles
New option to ignore RSS feed article bodies
Multiple Proxies. It's possible to define multiple proxies which can be used on a per-bookmark level. So it's possible to monitor different bookmarks with different proxies. This will work with bookmarks that use the http or https protocol.
Internal Browser: Goto previous change
Browser integration: It's possible to drag/drop the URL of a web browser over the browser eye to add bookmarks (that way it's possible to open the currently opened page from Chrome to WSW)
SVG images supported (will be displayed within checked web pages)
Bookmark properties / Actions: Add log file to Local Website Archive
Browser integration: It's possible to drag/drop a link from a web page over the browser eye to add it as new bookmark
Bookmark properties have a Tweaks section that will be used for certain configurations or enhancements.
Bookmark properties / Tweak: HttpAcceptLanguage=... to define the accept-language header per bookmark
Plugins: New function "DecodeHtmlChars" to decode all encoded characters (eg. or ú)
Virtual folders / Advanced rules: New variable {is_changed}. Can be 0 or 1, dependent if a bookmark is marked as changed (red/bold).
Virtual folders / Advanced rules: New variables {flag_any}, {flag_red}, {flag_green}, {flag_blue}, {flag_yellow} to display bookmarks with flags. Values can be 0 or 1.
Filter Assistant: New shortcuts "Ctrl+N" for "Create new filter" and "Ctrl+T" for "Test filter".
Report/Export: New variable {wsw_url_domain} for the top level domain, eg. aignes.com
Report/Export: New variable {wsw_sort_url} to sort the report by URLs (default is sorting by name)
Report/Export: New variable {wsw_sort_domain} to sort the report by domain name (default is sorting by name)
Auto-Filter: It's possible to delete single Auto-Filter lines
Creating Auto-Filters improved
RSS feeds with various non-standard syntax formats supported
Internet Explorer Macros: Macros with "I'm not a robot" captchas supported (the captcha can now be entered correctly)
Program configuration / E-Mail / Max e-mail size: If you send e-mails in HTML format with embedded images, you can limit the max size of the e-mails. WebSite-Watcher will remove images from the e-mail as long as the size larger than the configured max value. This option is enabled by default with a max. size of 10 MB per e-mail.
Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R (to restore the previous version) also works when the internal browser is focused
Export to/Import from Excel: New field "autowatch_check_every_time" for the configuration "check every X days"
Import URLs from Excel spreadsheets: Automatically remove leading/trailing slashes from URLs which caused an error message when checked
Main window: Mouse wheel no longer changes the opened page when the mouse is over the URL field
Recalculating AutoWatch countdown after checking single bookmarks improved
Export/Report: Extracting highlighting changes improved
Checking bookmarks: WSW is now identified as IE11 instead of IE10
Detecting and displaying removed content at the bottom of the page improved
Update Ticker didn't remember the last position on multi monitor setups under certain circumstances

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.6 (Nov 10, 2015)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.5 (Oct 27, 2015)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.4 (Aug 24, 2015)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.3 (Jul 30, 2015)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.2 (Apr 30, 2015)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.1 (Apr 7, 2015)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.0 Beta 3 (Feb 13, 2015)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.0 Beta 2 (Feb 10, 2015)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2015 15.0 Beta 1 (Jan 7, 2015)

64-bit version of WebSite-Watcher (combined setup for 32/64 bit version. The setup will automatically install the 64bit version on 64bit systems). The About box shows if the 32/64bit version is installed.
CSS based watch filters
Bookmark action "Send mail": Customized E-Mail templates. Can for example be used to send e-mails with alternative sender e-mail address or an alternative e-mail body
Report: New variable {wsw_url_removed_content(MAXLEN)} to show removed content
Report: New variable {wsw_url_readstatus} shows if a bookmark has been read. ("read" or "unread")
Report: New variable {wsw_url_update_on_keywords_table} shows found keywords of the Update-On-Keywords feature (similar to the table in the Analysis tab of the internal browser). This variable returns a HTML table, so this variable is designed to be used in HTML based reports.
Report window / context menu: "Check selected bookmarks" and "Uncheck selected bookmarks"
Follow-Links: New option "Don't follow links inside filtered parts of a page". With that option, the Follow-Links feature uses defined Ignore filters to exclude links from filtered areas of a page. This option only works with Ignore filters, not with Watch filters.
Follow-Links: New option "Name Prefix". This option will assign the entered text as prefix to the bookmark name of automatically inserted bookmarks.
Follow-Links: FTP protocol supported
Follow-Links: IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) supported
Bookmark context menu / New entry "Select Master Bookmark" (if a child bookmark is selected). Useful when there are multiple master bookmarks within the same folder.
Set properties in all selected bookmarks: New option to set "Last check date"
Set properties in all selected bookmarks: New option to set "Last changed date"
Download/Display images in a page: New option "Don't show images within filtered content"
Script / CreateReport: New option to create a report for the currently selected bookmarks. This will make it for example possible to create and send a report by e-mail for the currently opened bookmark. (CreateReport /bookmarks=selected /...)
Script / new predefined variables: {windowsdir} and {winprogramsdir}
New program tweak: HandleWarningWholeContentFilteredAsError=1 - If a check reports the message "Warning: whole content filtered (please verify your filter settings)", then this is handled as warning by default. If you enable that tweak, this status message is handled as error (listed in Error folder, the bookmark option "Alert/Actions-on-Error" is performed, etc).
Update similar bookmarks: Window can be resized and WebSite-Watcher remembers window size
Update similar bookmarks: WebSite-Watcher remembers column widths and sorting
Download-Manager: FTP protocol supported
Download Manager: Remember column widths
Set properties in all selected bookmarks / Export page: it's possible to assign the export file
Export/Import bookmarks to/from Excel: Fields for bookmark action "Export" supported
Backups and AutoBackups can be aborted via a Cancel button
Internet Explorer Macros: New option to use a customized User Agent
MiniBrowser: New option to use a customized User Agent
Internal browser / Page button: New command "Save page as". Lets you save pages HTML, MHT and TEXT format
Filter-Assistant / New option "Always start Filter Assistant with TEXT tab" (can be changed in the Options menu of the Filter Assistant)
Test Filter window shows the date when the new/old version was changed
Shortcut can be assigned to function "Disable check"
Plugins: function "Bookmark_GetProperty" can read the check status. Useful when you want to write the check status to a log file. Example script see help file.
Help file / new Plugin example: Write status of last check to log file
Help file / new Plugin example: Extract and show PDF links
AutoBackup: Max number of days to run AutoBackups is now 99 (instead of 9)
Check method "Internet Explorer/Browser": Checks with option "Disable optimizations" significantly improved
Checking FTP pages improved
Repair database: Performance boost when repairing a database

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.3 Beta 1 (Oct 10, 2014)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.2 (Sep 12, 2014)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.2 Beta 3 (May 21, 2014)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.2 Beta 2 (May 12, 2014)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.2 Beta 1 (May 6, 2014)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.1 (Feb 11, 2014)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.0 (Jan 30, 2014)

Improved compatibility with Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 (Starting with version 11, an embedded Internet Explorer is identified as IE9 with an uncommon user agent string. This could cause problems with various web pages. WebSite-Watcher 2014 changes that user agent string so that IE11 is correctly identified as IE11).
New program option "Always open links in external browser": If enabled, WebSite-Watcher will always open online URLs in your external default browser. Only checked bookmarks (locally saved pages) will then be opened within WebSite-Watcher. Currently, the latest version of Internet Explorer 11 has some bugs that can freeze applications. If you run into that problem, you can use that option to work around that bug.
New ignore filter: Filter content via CSS class names
New special filter: Minimum number of new/changed words (that are required to detect an update)
New special filter: Sort page content by sentences
Pre-define bookmark properties / Ignore and Watch filter: New option "Add to existing configuration"
Pre-define bookmark properties / Keywords: New option "Add to existing configuration"
Pre-define bookmark properties / Highlight Changes: More options in the "Highlight Changes" configuration (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Keywords and Ignore/Watch filters: New function regexcmp(regex,operator,number) - this functions searches for the defined regular expression, extracts all digits from the match and compares them with the pre-defined number. This function can for example be used to extract a price and accept it only if it is larger than 1000. Example: regexcmp(Price:\s*\d+\.\d\d;,; >1000)
Keywords: It's possible to call the "Test regex" window to directly test regular expressions or keywords
Global bookmark pre-definitions: New option "Continue processing with other pre-definitions". This makes it possible to pre-define multiple pre-definitions per bookmark
Performance: Much better handling of the checking queue to avoid bottlenecks when many bookmarks with the same domain are queued or when checks are limited via advanced connection rules
Performance: User interface should be more responsive during bookmark checks
WebSite-Watcher can check pages and files which are encoded in UTF-16 format
Bookmark properties: Advanced Internet Explorer check settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Bookmark properties: IFRAMES settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Bookmark properties: Action "Export page" can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Bookmark properties: Action "Run program" can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Bookmark properties: Troubleshooting settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Check selected bookmarks (extended): New option "Check before other bookmarks". If enabled, bookmarks will be inserted and checked before already queued bookmarks.
Bookmark properties / RSS feeds: It's possible to define how new RSS feed postings should be detected. Optional, by default WebSite-Watcher uses an automatic system that can fail under certain circumstances, for example when an RSS feed regularly changes the GUID (=Globally Unique Identifier) of existing postings.
Filter-Assistant converts all links to text (optional). This makes it easier to make a selection within a link text.
Statistics: Export statistic to Excel spreadsheet
Statistics: Reset statistics
The plugin "Auto-Download with Download-Manager" now also works with initialized bookmarks (if configured in the bookmark properties)
Customizable pre-definitions for the user agent string. The user agent can then be selected from the pre-defined list (eg. to get the mobile layout of a page if available)
File+Reopen now remembers the last 9 used files (instead of 4)
New Tweak: HandleIgnoreUpdateAsError=0 (If a bookmark has the Ignore updates feature configured and a black listed text is found in the page, then (1) WebSite-Watcher will list this bookmark in the error folder and (2) alert an update after the configured number of errors in a row. With that tweak, WebSite-Watcher will ignore the update but not list the bookmark in the error folder nor alert an update after X errors in a row)
Bookmark properties: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
Set properties in all selected bookmarks: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
Assign bookmark properties window: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
Checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser": It's possible to use a custom User Agent (bookmark properties + Advanced + Check options (2))
Download Manager: New option "Move to system tray when WebSite-Watcher starts a download"
Download Manager: New option "Show info window when a download has completed"
Import bookmarks from Chrome
Silent uninstall (more information see chapter "Silent Install/Uninstall" in the help file)
Plugins / Bookmark_GetProperty: New variables "database_filename" and "cache_folder"
Send RSS feeds via the bookmark action "Send mail": If the option "Alert/Actions on initialization" is enabled, WebSite-Watcher sent an empty feed for initialized feeds (because by default, only new or changed articles are sent by e-mail). On initialization, WebSite-Watcher will send the whole feed now.
Internet Check Macros improved
Several performance improvements while a check is running
Improved filtering of HTML tags when a tag contains problematic characters or tags (eg. HTML tags in the title parameter)
Enhanced handling of certain encoded characters
Performance improvements when comparing pages (could take a very long time for certain pages)
Smaller fixes and improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.0 Beta 3 (Jan 24, 2014)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.0 Beta 2 (Jan 20, 2014)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2014 14.0 Beta 1 (Jan 8, 2014)

Improved compatibility with Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 (Starting with version 11, an embedded Internet Explorer is identified as IE9 with an uncommon user agent string. This could cause problems with various web pages. WebSite-Watcher 2014 changes that user agent string so that IE11 is correctly identified as IE11).
New ignore filter: Filter content via CSS class names
New special filter: Minimum number of new/changed words (that are required to detect an update)
New special filter: Sort page content by sentences
Pre-define bookmark properties / Ignore and Watch filter: New option "Add to existing configuration"
Pre-define bookmark properties / Keywords: New option "Add to existing configuration"
Keywords and Ignore/Watch filters: New function regexcmp(regex,operator,number) - this functions searches for the defined regular expression, extracts all digits from the match and compares them with the pre-defined number. This function can for example be used to extract a price and accept it only if it is larger than 1000. Example: regexcmp(Price:\s*\d+\.\d\d;,; >1000)
Keywords: It's possible to call the "Test regex" window to directly test regular expressions or keywords
Global bookmark pre-definitions: New option "Continue processing with other pre-definitions". This makes it possible to pre-define multiple pre-definitions per bookmark
Performance: Much better handling of the checking queue to avoid bottlenecks when many bookmarks with the same domain are queued or when checks are limited via advanced connection rules
Performance: User interface should be more responsive during bookmark checks
WebSite-Watcher can check pages and files which are encoded in UTF-16 format
Bookmark properties: Advanced Internet Explorer check settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Bookmark properties: IFRAMES settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Bookmark properties: Action "Export page" can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Bookmark properties: Action "Run program" can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Bookmark properties: Troubleshooting settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
Check selected bookmarks (extended): New option "Check before other bookmarks". If enabled, bookmarks will be inserted and checked before already queued bookmarks.
Bookmark properties / RSS feeds: It's possible to define how new RSS feed postings should be detected. Optional, by default WebSite-Watcher uses an automatic system that can fail under certain circumstances, for example when an RSS feed regularly changes the GUID (=Globally Unique Identifier) of existing postings.
Filter-Assistant converts all links to text (optional). This makes it easier to make a selection within a link text.
Statistics: Export statistic to Excel spreadsheet
Statistics: Reset statistics
The plugin "Auto-Download with Download-Manager" now also works with initialized bookmarks (if configured in the bookmark properties)
Customizable pre-definitions for the user agent string. The user agent can then be selected from the pre-defined list (eg. to get the mobile layout of a page if available)
File+Reopen now remembers the last 9 used files (instead of 4)
New Tweak: HandleIgnoreUpdateAsError=0 (If a bookmark has the Ignore updates feature configured and a black listed text is found in the page, then (1) WebSite-Watcher will list this bookmark in the error folder and (2) alert an update after the configured number of errors in a row. With that tweak, WebSite-Watcher will ignore the update but not list the bookmark in the error folder nor alert an update after X errors in a row)
Bookmark properties: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
Set properties in all selected bookmarks: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
Assign bookmark properties window: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
Checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser": It's possible to use a custom User Agent (bookmark properties + Advanced + Check options (2))
Download Manager: New option "Move to system tray when WebSite-Watcher starts a download"
Download Manager: New option "Show info window when a download has completed"
Send RSS feeds via the bookmark action "Send mail": If the option "Alert/Actions on initialization" is enabled, WebSite-Watcher sent an empty feed for initialized feeds (because by default, only new or changed articles are sent by e-mail). On initialization, WebSite-Watcher will send the whole feed now.
Internet Check Macros improved
Several performance improvements while a check is running
Improved filtering of HTML tags when a tag contains problematic characters or tags (eg. HTML tags in the title parameter)
Enhanced handling of certain encoded characters
Performance improvements when comparing pages (could take a very long time for certain pages)
Smaller fixes and improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 2013 13.2 (Oct 2, 2013)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2013 13.1 (Jul 18, 2013)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2013 13.1 Beta 1 (May 23, 2013)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2013 13.0 Final (Feb 14, 2013)

Options + Global bookmark pre-definitions: Assign pre-defined bookark properties to new/existing bookmarks with certain URL specifications. For example to automatically check all bookmarks with domain "aignes.com" with the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser"
Monitoring files on local network drives supported, eg. \\server\folder\filename.ext
Browser integration: If the browser integration is enabled, then the WebSite-Watcher Browser Eye can also be displayed when WebSite-Watcher is not running. So you can easily add bookmarks from your browser without having to start WebSite-Watcher manually. Optional, disabled by default.
Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: Possibility to pre-define all special filters
Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: It's possible to pre-define watch filters
Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: It's possible to pre-define shared plugins. In that case a shared plugin is already used when a bookmark is initialized.
Internal browser / TEXT tab: filtered content is now also striked out in the TEXT tab
Bookmark action / Send mail: New option to ignore CSS definitions (can be used when your e-mail client has problems to display HTML mails from WebSite-Watcher)
Send mails: The e-mail template (program configuration) is now also used in HTML e-mails. This makes it possible to display bookmark name and URL within the HTML e-mail.
Bookmark action / Export page: New option to export the new version or the version with highlighted changes
x] AutoWatch countdown calculation improved
x] PDF Plugin significantly improved (extraction and performance)
Tweak "PerformCheckOnlyIfUrlExists": If a "+" is added in front of the URL, then the check will be performed with each check run (optional)
New tweak to no longer delete outdated filter definitions automatically. See helpfile for more information.
When the divider between bookmark list and internal browser is moved, WebSite-Watcher ensures that the focussed bookmark stays in view.
x] Improved keyword searching in Atom feeds
x] Improved detection if RSS/Atom feeds have just removed items
x] Checking local files improved
WebSite-Watcher automatically deletes successfully sent e-mails from the error log after e-mails could not be sent temporarily
New plugin: MS Excel (unformatted numbers) - The default Excel plugin shows formatted numbers while this plugin shows all numbers as they are stored in the sheet (no rounded numbers, no formatted decimal values, etc).
New plugin: Monitor all OPTION tags - This plugin extracts all OPTION tags (eg. all entries from a drop down box) from the checked page and converts them into a new page.
Plugins / new event function "Wsw_MergePages": This event function is called to merge multiple pages, eg. when monitoring a forum thread.
Plugins / new event function "Wsw_AfterCheck": This event function is called after a bookmark has been checked.
Plugins / new parameter "main_url" in function Bookmark_SetProperty: Replaces the main URL in the bookmark properties. Typical example is when you monitor a fourm thread and change the page URL if further sub pages are available. Typical example see help file.
Plugins / new parameter "ignore_filter" in function Bookmark_SetProperty: Defines an ignore filter that is used temporarily for the check.
Plugins / new parameter "watch_filter" in function Bookmark_SetProperty: Defines a watch filter that is used temporarily for the check.
Plugins / new parameter "filter_ignore_removed_content" in function Bookmark_SetProperty: Enables the special filter "Ignore removed elements" temporarily for the check.
Plugin IDE: Source tab has an "Apply filter" button. This can be useful when you want to evaluate regular expressions for the Bookmark_SetProperty settings "ignore_filter" and "watch_filter".
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Alert if keywords are NOT found
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Merge search result pages
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Merge pages in forum thread
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Calculate the time of a check and write the number of seconds to a log file
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Alert only if there is more than 1 change
Import from CSV file didn't work when the fields in the first line were placed in quotes

New in WebSite-Watcher 2013 13.0 Beta 2 (Jan 26, 2013)

New in WebSite-Watcher 2013 13.0 Beta 1 (Jan 8, 2013)

Options + Global bookmark pre-definitions: Assign pre-defined bookark properties to new/existing bookmarks with certain URL specifications. For example to automatically check all bookmarks with domain "aignes.com" with the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser"
Monitoring files on local network drives supported, eg. \\server\folder\filename.ext
Browser integration: If the browser integration is enabled, then the WebSite-Watcher Browser Eye is also displayed when WebSite-Watcher is not running. So you can easily add bookmarks from your browser without having to start WebSite-Watcher manually.
Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: Possibility to pre-define all special filters
Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: It's possible to pre-define watch filters
Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: It's possible to pre-define shared plugins. In that case a shared plugin is already used when a bookmark is initialized.
Internal browser / TEXT tab: filtered content is now also striked out in the TEXT tab
Bookmark action / Send mail: New option to ignore CSS definitions (can be used when your e-mail client has problems to display HTML mails from WebSite-Watcher)
Send mails: The e-mail template (program configuration) is now also used in HTML e-mails. This makes it possible to display bookmark name and URL within the HTML e-mail.
Bookmark action / Export page: New option to export the new version or the version with highlighted changes
x] AutoWatch countdown calculation improved
x] PDF Plugin significantly improved (extraction and performance)
Tweak "PerformCheckOnlyIfUrlExists": If a "+" is added in front of the URL, then the check will be performed with each check run (optional)
When the divider between bookmark list and internal browser is moved, WebSite-Watcher ensures that the focussed bookmark stays in view.
x] Improved keyword searching in Atom feeds
x] Improved detection if RSS/Atom feeds have just removed items
x] Checking local files improved
WebSite-Watcher automatically deletes successfully sent e-mails from the error log after e-mails could not be sent temporarily
New plugin: MS Excel (unformatted numbers) - The default Excel plugin shows formatted numbers while this plugin shows all numbers as they are stored in the sheet (no rounded numbers, no formatted decimal values, etc).
New plugin: Monitor all OPTION tags - This plugin extracts all OPTION tags (eg. all entries from a drop down box) from the checked page and converts them into a new page.
Plugins / new event function "Wsw_MergePages": This event function is called to merge multiple pages, eg. when monitoring a forum thread.
Plugins / new event function "Wsw_AfterCheck": This event function is called after a bookmark has been checked.
Plugins / new parameter "main_url" in function Bookmark_SetProperty: Replaces the main URL in the bookmark properties. Typical example is when you monitor a fourm thread and change the page URL if further sub pages are available. Typical example see help file.
Plugins / new parameter "ignore_filter" in function Bookmark_SetProperty: Defines an ignore filter that is used temporarily for the check.
Plugins / new parameter "watch_filter" in function Bookmark_SetProperty: Defines a watch filter that is used temporarily for the check.
Plugins / new parameter "filter_ignore_removed_content" in function Bookmark_SetProperty: Enables the special filter "Ignore removed elements" temporarily for the check.
Plugin IDE: Source tab has an "Apply filter" button. This can be useful when you want to evaluate regular expressions for the Bookmark_SetProperty settings "ignore_filter" and "watch_filter".
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Alert if keywords are NOT found
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Merge search result pages
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Merge pages in forum thread
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Calculate the time of a check and write the number of seconds to a log file
Plugins / Help: New example in help file: Alert only if there is more than 1 change
Import from CSV file didn't work when the fields in the first line were placed in quotes

New in WebSite-Watcher 12.3 Final (Sep 25, 2012)

New in WebSite-Watcher 12.2 Beta 1 (Jul 13, 2012)

New in WebSite-Watcher 12.1 Beta 1 (Jun 4, 2012)

[+] WebSite-Watcher no longer shows the Browser-Eye or pops up the Update Ticker when another window is in full screen mode
[+] Excel Import/Export: All AutoWatch options can now be imported/exported
[+] Check technology "Internet Explorer / Browser": New option "Disable optimizations" - This option disables various performance and bandwidth optimizations during a check. Only turn this option on if a check does not work correctly without that option.
[+] Bookmark properties / Advanced / Misc: New property to add a filename prefix when downloading files via the download manager (either via RSS feed enclosures or via plugins)
[+] Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: Alternative BCC
[+] Virtual folders / Send e-mail: Alternative BCC
[+] Virtual folders / Send e-mail: e-mails can be inserted via user interface from a list
[+] Bookmark actions / Export page: New variables {infofield1}, {infofield2} and {infofield3}
[+] Bookmark actions / Run program: New variables for parameter: {infofield1}, {infofield2} and {infofield3}
[+] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser": New option to scroll a page down automatically. Use this option if a page loads content dynamically when you scroll down a page.
[+] Record Internet Explorer Macro: New command to insert a delay in seconds, for example to give a page more time to load
[+] Record Internet Explorer Macro: New command to scroll a page down via macro. Use this command if a page loads content dynamically when you scroll down a page.
[+] New Tweak: SendMailRemoveWswTags=0 (by default, WebSite-Watcher removes help tags for highlighting changes from the e-mails to keep e-mail sizes as small as possible. With that tweak, no tags are removed. This can be useful if you want to post process e-mails and extract changes via these tags, for example wswchange1, wswchange2, etc.).
[+] Browser integration for the latest verison of Google Chrome (19.x)
[x] More precise search of keywords in new/changed content. Sometimes WSW could alert an update when keywords only were in removed content, this keyword detection algorithm works now smoother.
[x] Improved detection and auto-correction of problems with folder structure, eg. after database damages (was: bookmarks could not be moved correctly to other folders)
[-] AutoWatch countdown calculation could end in an endless loop under certain circumstances
Minor improvements and reported bugs fixed
Language files updated

New in WebSite-Watcher 12.0 Final (Jan 31, 2012)

[+] Bookmark properties / Merge pages: It's possible to merge the first x pages from search results (or the last few pages with new content from forum topics) to a single page. This works for URLs that have a parameter that defines the page, eg. http://www.domain.com/search.php?text=abc&page=13
[+] Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: E-Mail addresses can be selected from a pre-defined list
[+] Bookmark properties / Options: Bookmarks can optionally be opened in the "Text" tab or in the "Analysis" tab of the internal browser
[+] Bookmark properties / Actions/Alert on error: New option "Alert after X errors in a row"
[+] Check FTP folders: The directory listing is converted in a new format and the sub folders and files are sorted. This makes monitoring FTP folders much easier.
[+] Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: New option "Apply settings to subfolders"
[+] Export/Import from Excel: New field wswid that is written when exporting bookmarks. This makes it now possible to export bookmarks, change the URL and re-import bookmarks. Before that change, the URL was used to identify a bookmark. If the field wswid is available, then this field is used to identify a bookmark.
[+] Export/Import from Excel: New fields, amongst other things fields to ignore updates via black/whitelist
[+] Send e-mails: Advanced rules for sending (optional, can be used as alternative to send e-mails after each check run)
[+] Send e-mails: Global black list to suppress e-mail sending. If a page contains a defined entry of the global black list, then an e-mail is not sent. For example if a page contains the text "could not connect to database".
[+] Send e-mails: New option "Send before other e-mails". With that option enabled, e-mails will be queued and sent before other e-mails.
[+] Send e-mails: BCC (can be entered in program configuration)
[+] Send e-mails: HTML e-mails optimized and size reduced
[+] Send e-mails: size reduction when sending e-mails in text format and changes attached
[+] Virtual folders: New variables {added_age_hours} and {added_age_days}. These variables can be used to create for example a virtual folder "Recently created" that shows all new bookmarks that were inserted within the last 5 hours.
[+] Scripts: New built-in function "FileExists"
[+] Internal Browser / Open with external program: Optional command line parameters can be specified
[+] Internal Browser / "Text" tab: The "Text" tab can now also show the new or old version of the checked page when they were opened in the "Page" tab before clicking the "Text" tab.
[+] Initialize PDF/Word/Excel files: Automatically use the filename as the bookmark name
[+] PDF plugin: WebSite-Watcher can extract text from more PDF files
[+] Filter system: FirstRegex(...) to ignore or monitor only the first occurrence of a regular expression
[+] Custom columns: Increased custom columns from 3 to 5
[+] New plugin: Monitor image URLs
[+] Plugins: Function "HtmlExtract" has a new parameter to extract image URLs from the checked web page
[+] Plugins / new built-in function: GetComparisonInfo (see help file for detailed description)
[+] If an AutoWatch countdown is active while the system turns into hibernation, WebSite-Watcher will wait at least 15 seconds before the next AutoWatch check is started after the system returns from hibernation. This gives Windows some time to re-establish network connections before the next AutoWatch check run is started after hibernation. The default value of 15 seconds can be customized via the program tweak "MinAutoWatchSecondsAfterHibernation".
[+] program configuration / new tweak "ReopenTabsAfterCrash=0": If WebSite-Watcher crashes, then the next start will show a dialog to re-open the last opened browser tabs. This tweak suppresses that dialog and don't re-open browser tabs.
[x] Bookmark properties / RSS / Ignore articles older than: The minimum number of days is now 1 (30 in previous versions)
[-] Some conflicts with "Open in external browser" (Shortcuts Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+Shift+F11) fixed. By default, Ctrl+Shift+F11 is now Ctrl+Shift+0, if you have customized your shortcuts, then this change doesn't affect your shortcut configuration.
[-] WebSite-Watcher could (in rare cases) falsely report the error "incorrect file size" when checking web pages
[-] Some special Unicode characters were not decoded correctly
Smaller fixes, improvements and optimizations

New in WebSite-Watcher 12.0 Beta 2 (Jan 19, 2012)

New in WebSite-Watcher 12.0 Beta 1 (Jan 12, 2012)

Bookmark properties / Merge pages: It's possible to merge the first x pages from search results (or the last few pages with new content from forum topics) to a single page. This works for URLs that have a parameter that defines the page, eg. http://www.domain.com/search.php?text=abc&page=13
Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: E-Mail addresses can be selected from a pre-defined list
Bookmark properties / Options: Bookmarks can optionally be opened in the "Text" tab or in the "Analysis" tab of the internal browser
Bookmark properties / Actions/Alert on error: New option "Alert after X errors in a row"
Check FTP folders: The directory listing is converted in a new format and the sub folders and files are sorted. This makes monitoring FTP folders much easier.
Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: New option "Apply settings to subfolders"
Export/Import from Excel: New field wswid that is written when exporting bookmarks. This makes it now possible to export bookmarks, change the URL and re-import bookmarks. Before that change, the URL was used to identify a bookmark. If the field wswid is available, then this field is used to identify a bookmark.
Export/Import from Excel: New fields, amongst other things fields to ignore updates via black/whitelist
Send e-mails: Advanced rules for sending (optional, can be used as alternative to send e-mails after each check run)
Send e-mails: Global black list to suppress e-mail sending. If a page contains a defined entry of the global black list, then an e-mail is not sent. For example if a page contains the text "could not connect to database".
Send e-mails: New option "Send before other e-mails". With that option enabled, e-mails will be queued and sent before other e-mails.
Send e-mails: BCC (can be entered in program configuration)
Send e-mails: HTML e-mails optimized and size reduced
Send e-mails: size reduction when sending e-mails in text format and changes attached
Virtual folders: New variables {added_age_hours} and {added_age_days}. These variables can be used to create for example a virtual folder "Recently created" that shows all new bookmarks that were inserted within the last 5 hours.
Scripts: New built-in function "FileExists"
Internal Browser / Open with external program: Optional command line parameters can be specified
Internal Browser / "Text" tab: The "Text" tab can now also show the new or old version of the checked page when they were opened in the "Page" tab before clicking the "Text" tab.
PDF plugin: WebSite-Watcher can extract text from more PDF files
Filter system: FirstRegex(...) to ignore or monitor only the first occurrence of a regular expression
Custom columns: Increased custom columns from 3 to 5
Plugins / new built-in function: GetComparisonInfo (see help file for detailed description)
If an AutoWatch countdown is active while the system turns into hibernation, WebSite-Watcher will wait at least 15 seconds before the next AutoWatch check is started after the system returns from hibernation. This gives Windows some time to re-establish network connections before the next AutoWatch check run is started after hibernation. The default value of 15 seconds can be customized via the program tweak "MinAutoWatchSecondsAfterHibernation".
program configuration / new tweak "ReopenTabsAfterCrash=0": If WebSite-Watcher crashes, then the next start will show a dialog to re-open the last opened browser tabs. This tweak suppresses that dialog and don't re-open browser tabs.
x] Bookmark properties / RSS / Ignore articles older than: The minimum number of days is now 1 (30 in previous versions)
Some conflicts with "Open in external browser" (Shortcuts Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+Shift+F11) fixed. By default, Ctrl+Shift+F11 is now Ctrl+Shift+0, if you have customized your shortcuts, then this change doesn't affect your shortcut configuration.
WebSite-Watcher could (in rare cases) falsely report the error "incorrect file size" when checking web pages
Smaller fixes, improvements and optimizations

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.5 Final (Oct 18, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.5 Beta 2 (Oct 18, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.5 Beta 1 (Oct 3, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.4 Final (Jul 25, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.4 Beta 3 / 11.3 Final (Jul 19, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.4 Beta 2 (Jul 8, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.4 Beta 1 (Jun 29, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.3 Final (Jun 20, 2011)

Bookmark properties + Advanced: New section "Forum"
Forum-Wizard re-implemented
Forum-Templates: Footer selection can optionally have changing numbers
Reopen last browser tab: WebSite-Watcher has now an internal history of closed browser tabs (previous versions could only reopen the last closed browser tab).
Automatically select the correct checking method for Yahoo Groups
FTP-Proxy - new option: FTP-over-HTTP for proxies that do not support the FTP protocol. Using that option lets you for example check FTP URLs with the proxy Squid. A detailed description, disadvantages and limitations of that method can be found in the help file
FTP Proxy configuration: Different proxy login types to be compatible with certain proxies. The correct login type can be determined automatically in the proxy configuration.
Browser toolbar: New button to close the internal browser (disabled by default, can be enabled via toolbar customization)
Improved detection of new/changed RSS feed postings
Better compatibility with certain SMTP servers
Internal Browser + Analysis: The "Keywords" analysis has been enhanced for virtual folders
Import/Export from/to Excel: troubleshooting variables added
Import/Export from/to Excel: Several improvements and fixes
Script: The command "CheckFolder" can check virtual folders
PDF-Plugin: Future versions of WebSite-Watcher will no longer produce false update notifications after improving/changing the text extraction of PDF files.
PDF plugin: Improved text extraction from certain PDF files
Word plugin: WebSite-Watcher is now able to extract Unicode text from Word files
Removed: Alternative PDF text extraction when using the PDF plugin (The alternative text extraction was done via the IFILTER system and was removed because updating the PDF reader could cause false positives. For example, a PDF IFILTER is no longer delivered and installed automatically with Acrobat Reader 10 while it was available in Acrobat Reader 9). The PDF plugin works now independently from the installed PDF reader.
Download-Manager: Improved detection of filename and file extension after relocations
Checked facebook pages displayed a horizontal scrollbar, WSW now fixes a bad CSS definition in facebook pages automatically.
Checking method "IE/Browser" and "IE Macros" improved
Some features didn't work correctly when the option "Recheck bookmark when an error occurred" was disabled
Text extraction from certain Excel files did not work
Vertical scrollbar was not always displayed properly in various list boxes
Fixed a false positive when checking certain Excel files (could only happen if the previous check reported an error)
WebSite-Watcher could freeze under certain circumstances
Indonesian user interface added
Many smaller optimizations, improvements and fixes

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.3 Beta 7 (Jun 17, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.3 Beta 6 (Jun 16, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.3 Beta 5 (Jun 9, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.3 Beta 4 (Jun 5, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.3 Beta 3 (May 25, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.3 Beta 2 (May 11, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.3 Beta 1 (May 5, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.2 Final (Apr 28, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.2 Beta 3 (Apr 21, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.2 Beta 2 (Apr 11, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.2 Beta 1 (Mar 31, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.1 Final (Mar 29, 2011)

[+] Internet Explorer Macros: New option to automatically delete cookies of the checked domain before executing the macro (This can be required if certain steps (eg. a login) are suppressed or skipped as soon as a cookie is available. Deleting the cookies for the checked domain will "reset" the page and you will always start from scratch when checking the bookmark).
[+] New Shared Plugin: Auto-Download binary files. If you monitor binary files directly, you can download them automatically via the WebSite-Watcher Download Manager when a change is detected. This plugin is not suggested automatically via the browser information bar and must be assigned manually in bookmark properties + Advanced + Plugin. Supported file extensions are EXE,ZIP,RAR,7Z,MP3
[+] New Shared Plugin: Monitor all link addresses. This plugin extracts all links (URLs) from a web page and converts them into a new html page. Then all link addresses (instead of the page content) are checked for updates and changes.
[+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_change_age_hours} to display bookmarks that were changed within the specified number of hours (eg: {last_change_age_hours} less than "24")
[+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_change_age_days} to display bookmarks that were changed within the specified number of days (eg: {last_change_age_days} less than "1")
[+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_check_age_hours} to display bookmarks that were checked within the specified number of hours (eg: {last_check_age_hours} less than "5")
[+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_check_age_days} to display bookmarks that were checked within the specified number of days (eg: {last_check_age_days} less than "3")
[+] Follow-Links: Include/Exclude filters support date variables
[+] Follow-Links: Include/Exclude filters support regular expressions with function regex(...)
[+] Follow-Links: Automatically removing no longer linked pages can be canceled (status dialog has a Cancel button)
[+] RSS feed postings are sorted by posting date/time
[+] Forum-Wizard works with forums which are based on LI tags, eg. phpBB3 or vBulletin4 (until now only table based forums were supported).
[+] Temporarily disable bookmark checking, eg. for a specified number of minutes (right click bookmark + Extra + Disable check)
[+] Browser integration: Firefox 4 supported
[+] Download Manager: New column "Bookmark Name"
[-] Download-Manager: the automatic Copy-To feature could fail under certain circumstances
[x] Download Manager: Improved detection and generation of file names
[+] Shared Plugins: New identification option to identify a shared plugin by file extension (of the checked file)
[+] Pdf/Word/Excel files from FTP servers can be checked via Pdf/Word/Excel Plugins
[+] Plugins: Support for password protected PDF files (the password can be entered in: Bookmark properties + Advanced + Plugin)
[+] Plugins: Support for password protected Excel files (the password can be entered in: Bookmark properties + Advanced + Plugin)
[+] Plugins: Support for password protected Word files (Conversion via MS Office only, the password can be entered in: Bookmark properties + Advanced + Plugin)
[+] Plugins: New built-in function "HtmlExtract" to extract all URLs from a web page
[+] Plugin: Built in function Bookmark_SetProperty has a new parameter "dont_check_minutes" to temporarily disable bookmark checking for the specified number of minutes. Further details see help file.
[-] Word/Excel plugins didn't work correctly after untypical server redirections
[x] Plugin function "DownloadFile": Parameter "Handle" added (if you have used that function in plugins, please update your plugin scripts to get them working again)
[x] Internet Explorer Macros for pages with frames improved
[+] Import from Excel / Export to Excel: New variable "postdata"
[x] Import from Excel / Export to Excel: Various improvements and fixes
[x] Improved detection if a bookmark already exists in combination with check macros and post data
[x] Text extraction from PDF files improved
[-] Download Manager could crash with certain URLs
[-] Bookmark configuration could be lost under certain circumstances when the Follow-Links feature was enabled
Bug fixes and smaller improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.0 Final (Feb 4, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.0 Beta 5 (Jan 20, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.0 Beta 4 (Jan 7, 2011)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.0 Beta 3 (Dec 22, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.0 Beta 2 (Dec 6, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 11.0 Beta 1 (Nov 30, 2010)

Virtual folders
Internal browser: Changes bar
Bookmark properties - New option "Offset before first change": Scroll back the configured number of pixels when jumping to the first highlighted change (this can make it more comfortable to read the first highlighted change)
Bookmark properties - Ignore Updates: This feature now supports a Blacklist/Whitelist mode
Download Manager to automatically download RSS feed enclosures
RSS: WebSite-Watcher supports multiple enclosures in RSS feed postings
RSS: New option "Keep the most recent X articles"
Set properties in all selected bookmarks: "Follow-Links" options can be applied to selected bookmarks
Assign bookmark properties (program configuration or per folder): Pre-define ignore filters
Assign bookmark properties (program configuration or per folder): Pre-define some special filters
Assign bookmark properties (program configuration or per folder): Pre-define check technology
Bookmark action "Export page": New format "Webpage, complete" to also export related CSS and image files (these files are exported into a folder with extension ".files". If the export filename is "test.htm", then exported CSS/image files are stored in "test.files")
Internet Explorer Macros: Pure Javascript hyperlinks supported
Internet Explorer Macros: Comboboxes with Javascript actions supported
Pdf/Word/Excel plugins are now assigned automatically when a pdf/word/excel file is loaded after a redirection from a html page (in previous version it was only possible to automatically assign a plugin when the URL contained the correct file extension).
Plugin IDE has now a sensitive help. When the cursor is placed on a function, event function or a statement, then F1 jumps directly to the related help topic.
Plugin IDE / Code completion via Ctrl+Space: Several new features and sensitive help added.
Plugins / New functions to maintain stringlists, eg. functions to insert, change or delete specific items. All functions related to stringslists start with "StringList_". More information and an enhanced example can be found in the help file.
Plugins / New function: DownloadFile (adds an URL to the included download manager)
Plugins / New function: ReplaceWildcard
Plugins / New function: DeleteAllWildcardMatches
Plugins / New function: AddStringToFile
Plugins / New function: Sleep
Plugins: The built-in function "Bookmark_GetProperty" supports the parameter "name" to read the bookmark name.
Plugins: The built-in function "Bookmark_SetProperty" can write the additional 3 info fields of a bookmark
Database Repair Tool (dbtool.exe) that can be used to repair a database. Can be used if it's no longer possible to start WebSite-Watcher or to open a database due to database corruptions and crashes.
Scrolling with the mouse wheel works when the cursor is over the control (folder tree, bookmark list, web browser), it's no longer required to click the control before
Image configuration: WebSite-Watcher can now optionally show embedded flash videos if absolute image addresses or image downloading is enabled (in previous versions, embedded flash videos were always displayed but this could slow down opening certain bookmarks).
Newsgroups: Get parent postings (which can be much faster than the function "Reconstruct Thread" when you're only interested in (very) old parent postings)
Script IDE: Code completion via Ctrl+Space added
Script IDE has now a sensitive help. When the cursor is placed on a command, then F1 jumps directly to the related help topic of that command.
Follow-Links runs more smoothly and no longer blocks the main application
New Tweak: "CreateHighlightedChangesInBackground=1": By default, WebSite-Watcher calculates and generates the file with highlighted changes as soon as you open a bookmark. If this option is enabled, then WebSite-Watcher creates the files with highlighted changes immediately while bookmarks are checked. This will speed up opening changed bookmarks, but the check run will consume more memory and resources. It's not recommended to use this tweak if you often re-check changed/unread bookmarks without opening them after each check.
New Tweak "SavePageWhenNoKeywordsFound=1": By default, WebSite-Watcher doesn't save a page to your hard disk when keywords are entered in Update-on-keywords but no keyword is found within new/changed content. With that tweak, a page is also saved to your hard disk when none of the entered keywords is found.
New Tweak "UseStaticTrayIconHint=1": Shows the static text "WebSite-Watcher" as trayicon tooltip instead of dynamically generated information about check/update status.
Report/Export: New field {wsw_url_date_created}
The old-looking floating InfoWin has been re-designed and shows more information now. It has also been renamed to "Update-Ticker".
Internet Explorer browser integration improved (certain pages could not be added via the context menu due to an IE problem)
Checking Excel files: Performance highly improved
Pdf/Word/Excel files could not be checked via Check-Macros containing logouts
Tons of smaller improvements and optimizations

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.5 (Nov 30, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.4 (Sep 15, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.4 Beta 2 (Aug 27, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.4 Beta 1 (Aug 10, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.3 Beta 1 (Jul 8, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.2 (Jun 29, 2010)

New function "Re-Create database from cache folder". If a database has physical damages and you don't have a working backup file and the function "Repair database" fails, you can now fully re-create a database from files that are stored in the cache folder.
"Repair database" improved (WebSite-Watcher can now repair more data from damaged databases)
Improved database stability
Detection and auto correction of certain database errors
If a bookmark was checked with "Check-by-screenshot" or the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser", then it was possible that an embedded sound was played during the check. These checks work now completely silent. This works only under Windows Vista and 7.
Improved AutoWatch countdown calculation
Highlighting keywords significantly improved (you should no longer see the message "could not highlight all keywords") - Thread
Extended Search: Save settings as default ("Options" button)
Extended Search: "Display in Main Window" didn't remember the bookmarks after a WebSite-Watcher restart - Thread
Plugins: New built in function "ReplaceRegex"
Analysis tab: Analysis for Update-On-Keywords improved
Report/Export: The pre-defined template to export to CSV files now uses a semicolon as separator (instead of a comma), so the exported files can be opened directly in Excel.
Report: New fields {wsw_url_id} and {wsw_url_follow_master_id}
Bookmark action "Send e-mail": New variable {date_changed}
Bookmark action "Send e-mail": New variable {check_url} that displays the finally checked URL and also takes account of changes to the URL via the Plugin system or redirections
The "Send e-mail" variable {url} automatically expands date variables
Internet Explorer Macros improved (more rare login types supported)
Jump to the first highlighted change improved
Improved detection and filtering of embedded scripts
New program tweak: QuickInsertFromWebBrowserContextMenu=1 to quickly insert a page via the webbrowser context menu without displaying a window, bookmarks are always inserted into the root folder in that case
If a plugin is no longer compatible with a page and a new plugin was found (eg. after a forum version update), then it's possible to assign the new plugin via the browser information bar
If a plugin is no longer compatible with a page (eg. after a forum version update), it's possible to easily delete the assigned plugin via the browser information bar
vBulletin 3.x Plugin improved (improved detection of new postings)
Several PDF Plugin improvements
Scripts / SendMail command: User defined variables can be used in the mail subject
Improved handling of images with wrong extensions
WebSite-Watcher could not highlight changes under rare circumstances (due to conflicts with CSS definitions)
Keywords were not highlighted in the pre-defined color under rare circumstances (due to conflicts with CSS definitions)
Alert/Actions on error: Bookmark action "Send e-mail" didn't work when an error was detected.
WebSite-Watcher could perform AutoWatch checks endlessly without a countdown under certain circumstances. This should fix the behavior that was described in that thread
AutoWatch: Resetting automatic time frequency after an update could fail under certain circumstances - Thread
Fixed some memory leaks
Smaller fixes, optimizations and improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.2 Beta 5 (Jun 18, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.2 Beta 4 (Jun 11, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.2 Beta 3 (Jun 10, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.2 Beta 2 (May 28, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.2 Beta 1 (May 19, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.1 (Apr 8, 2010)

New bookmark column: Creation date. (Options + Columns)
Three new customizable bookmark columns. These columns can be used to display specific bookmark configurations, for example to show if the bookmark action "Send Mail" is enabled. (Options + Columns)
WebSite-Watcher uses the correct AutoWatch countdown value after a computer was in hibernation
Show removed elements at the end of the page: WebSite-Watcher no longer shows elements that were ignored by defined filters.
New Plugin: IFilter Text Extraction
Automatically assign PDF/Word/Excel plugin: New option "Don't assign plugin" (Program configuration + Bookmarks + Assign Plugins). If this option is selected, new PDF/Word/Excel files will be checked by file date.
Import bookmarks from Firefox 3.x
Bookmark list: Reset error status (available when you right click bookmarks in the error folder)
Bookmarks that were checked with the technology "IE/Browser" (or with Internet Explorer Macros) could steal the focus under certain circumstances, this should no longer happen.
Many improvements and optimizations for large window fonts
Checking binary files improved
New program tweak: SendMailOnlyNewRssArticles=0 (by default, the bookmark action "Send Mail" sends only new articles of an RSS feed. If this tweak is set, then all articles of an RSS feed will be included in the e-mails).
Internet Explorer Macros improved
Mail Outbox: Show queued mails in the outbox (can help to find problems when WSW cannot send all mails)
Update similar bookmarks feature improved
Update-On-Keywords: Improved keyword detection
Improved IFRAME filtering
More precise detection of first change
Automatic deletion of unused ignore filters improved
Internal browser: the default zoom value was only applied to the main browser tab. Now all browser tabs uses the default zoom value that is defined in the program configuration. The default zoom value is also used for all other embedded browsers (eg. Filter Assistant, MiniBrowser, Extended Search, etc.)
Internal Browser: Tab flickering fixed
Filters were not saved when the Filter-Assistant was called in the Page menu of the internal browser
Automatically repair folder structure after repairing a corrupted database (was not possible under certain circumstances)
Last change marker could be displayed at a wrong position
Bugfix in CSS handling that could lead to malformed pages.
Downloading images could fail if an image didn't have a file extension or if a wrong file extension was used
Smaller fixes, optimizations and improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.1 Beta 2 (Mar 18, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.1 Beta 1 (Mar 1, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.0 (Feb 2, 2010)

Filter-Assistant: The filter assistant can be called within the internal browser, either by holding the Alt key pressed while selecting a text or via the menu entry "Create new filter..." in the "Page" sub menu
Filter-Assistant: New wizard to classify the type of the filter and the selected text
Bookmark statistics ("View" menu)
Keywords: Enhanced editor with sorting and spelling check
WebSite-Watcher no longer reports an error if an RSS/Atom feed has no postings
Follow-Links: Automatically delete no longer linked files
Internal browser / tiled view: synchronized scrolling
Internal Browser: Close button is now placed within the tabs
Internal Browser + Page menu: "Copy URL to Clipboard" (if a local bookmark cache file is opened, WebSite-Watcher will copy the online URL to the clipboard)
Automatic codepage detection if neither the web page page nor the server provide a charset definition (this is a self learning system based on pages with valid charset definitions)
Windows 7: WebSite-Watcher shows the check progress in the taskbar icon
New/advanced toolbar configuration, eg. order of buttons can be changed
New toolbar button: Delete
Extended Search: browser toolbar can be customized (context menu)
New option: Reset toolbars to their defaults
Add RSS feeds from the internal browser (RSS button in status bar): Preview of RSS feed
Improved date detection in Atom Feed postings
Plugins: IPBoard 3.x Plugins added
Plugins: WoltLab Burning Board 3.x Plugins added
Plugins: vBulletin 4.x Plugins added
Plugins: vBulletin 3.x Plugins improved
Plugins: Excel plugin improved
Plugins: Bookmark can have a Private Plugin AND a Shared Plugin. If both plugins have a same event function implemented, then the event function of the Shared Plugin is executed before the event function of the Private Plugin.
Plugins: New event function "WSW_ActionsOnUpdate" is performed when an update is detected
Plugins: New function Bookmark_LoadCacheFile to get the content of new/old/changed files (this function can typically be used in WSW_ActionsOnUpdate)
Word/Excel Plugins: Separate Plugins for the internal conversion and the the conversion via MS Office 2003+
PDF/Word/Excel Plugins: Default plugins for PDF/Word/Excel files can be configured in the program configuration (Bookmarks tab)
PDF Plugin: Unicode partially supported
Plugin identification: Server log can be used to identify a file type - Thread
Selection of shared plugins improved
Send mails: new variables {folder} and {foldername} - Thread
New Script command "SendBookmarks" - Thread
Help + Check for new version (beside the (optional) automatic update check you can now also call it manually via the Help menu)
When the update check finds a new WebSite-Watcher version, you can let WebSite-Watcher download and install the new version automatically
Check-By-Screenshot improved
Open-with feature in the browser toolbar could be blocked several seconds by anti virus software
The embedded Internet Explorer could slow down or freeze under certain circumstances
Fixed a stack overflow that could happen under rare circumstances
Many help file improvements
Romanian user interface added
Many smaller improvements and fixes

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.0 Beta 6 (Jan 28, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.0 Beta 5 (Jan 25, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.0 Beta 4 (Jan 12, 2010)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.0 Beta 3 (Dec 24, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.0 Beta 2 (Dec 22, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 10.0 Beta 1 (Dec 15, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.6 Final (Dec 7, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.5 Final (Nov 18, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.5 Beta 2 (Oct 29, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.5 Beta 1 (Oct 19, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.4 Final (Oct 5, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.4 Beta 2 (Sep 30, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.4 Beta 1 (Sep 30, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.3 Final (Sep 14, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.3 Beta 2 (Sep 7, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.3 Beta 1 (Aug 17, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.2 Final (Aug 10, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.1 Final (Aug 10, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.1 Beta 6 (Aug 8, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.1 Beta 5 (Aug 4, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.1 Beta 4 (Aug 1, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.1 Beta 3 (Jul 31, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.1 Beta 2 (Jul 29, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.1 Beta 1 (Jul 27, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Final (Jul 14, 2009)

[+] Full Unicode support due to moving to a new compiler version
[+] Optimized and reduced memory usage, especially if you have lots of bookmarks with keywords or filter definitions
[+] Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for writing Plugins
[+] New checking method: Check by screenshot
[+] WebSite-Watcher can highlight changes in GIF/JPG/PNG images if you monitor a graphic file directly (address of the image file must be entered into the URL field)
[+] New PDF plugin with built-in solution to convert PDF files into web pages, an external converter is no longer required (the addon xpdf is no longer needed, but still supported)
[+] New Plugin: Convert Microsoft Word document into web page (Microsoft Office 2003 or higher must be installed)
[+] New Plugin: Convert Microsoft Excel document into web page (Microsoft Office 2003 or higher must be installed)
[+] Plugins for PDF/Word/Excel files can be automatically assigned to new bookmarks (enabled by default, can be disabled in the program configuration)
[+] PDF-files: The Pdf-Plugin is now suggested in the Browser-Info-Bar
[+] If the "Plugin Selection" dialog is called from the Browser Information Bar, a "Check Now" button is displayed in that dialog to quickly re-check the bookmark
[x] Improved detection if the PDF-Plugin based on pdftotext.exe (XPDF) produces an empty page
[+] New Plugin to monitor keyword definitions of a page
[+] Embedded videos are shown within web pages and blogs (image download or absolute image addresses must be enabled)
[+] WebSite-Watcher no longer plays the "click" sound when opening a page in the internal browser
[+] Filter definitions - Regular expressions: (?-i) for case sensitive regular expressions, for example: regex((?-i)d+ Comments)
[+] Extended Search: Search result shows the bookmark folder if "View simple list" is selected
[+] Report/Export: New option "Select changed bookmarks" (select all changed bookmarks that are displayed in red/bold)
[+] Improved file selection when restoring an AutoBackup file
[+] WebSite-Watcher always performs an AutoBackup before updating the database to a newer version. This helps restoring the latest database version if the update conversion fails.
[+] Support of web pages which are compressed via HttpCompress
[+] Internal Browser: Send page by e-mail (via "Page" button in browser toolbar)
[+] Action "Send E-Mail": Old postings in RSS feeds are no longer included in e-mails what can dramatically reduce the e-mail size
[+] New function "Repair Cache Folder" (in File+Database). Call this feature if WSW displays outdated or wrong files when opening a bookmark.
[x] Improved detection and autocorrection of outdated cache files
[+] New command line parameter "BatchMode" to suppress specific user input messages, for example to automatically check for new versions.
[x] Reports: Improved text extraction from RSS feeds
[x] Improved integration of Local Website Archive (requires LWA 3.1.0)
[x] Improved codepage detection for pages with buggy HTML code
[x] Improved MSAA support
[-] If a changed, unread bookmark was rechecked with an error, then the error page instead of the unread content was displayed. WebSite-Watcher now ensures that you always see the unread content in such a case.
[+] Scripts: Long lines can be wrapped if a line is terminated with the string: (+)
[+] Scripts: New parameter for command CreateReport: /folder="..." and /subfolder to create reports for predefined folders
[+] Scripts: New function "GetFolderBookmarkCount" to get the number of bookmarks of a specified folder
[+] Scripts: New function "GetFolderUpdatedBookmarkCount" to get the number of updated bookmarks of a specified folder
[+] Scripts: New directory variables: {appdatadir} and {mydocumentsdir}
[+] Scripts: New command "TestConnection" to test a connection to a single page, eg. TestConnection("http:www.softpedia.com")
[+] Scripts: New parameter for command CreateReport: /bookmarks=unread (select all changed/unread bookmarks that are displayed in red/bold)
[+] Newsgroups: HTML postings are decoded correctly
Many smaller improvements and fixes

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 11 (Jul 7, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 10 (Jul 3, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.4 Final (Jul 3, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 9 (Jun 30, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 8 (Jun 23, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 7 (Jun 22, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 6 (Jun 10, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 5 (Jun 3, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 4 (May 26, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 3 (May 15, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 2 (May 13, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta 1 (May 12, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.3 Final (May 11, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.3 Beta 1 (May 4, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.2 Final (Apr 6, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.2 Beta 3 (Mar 5, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.2 Beta 2 (Feb 12, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.2 Beta 1 (Feb 9, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.1 Final (Jan 30, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.1 Beta 2 (Jan 23, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0.1 Beta 1 (Jan 15, 2009)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Final (Jan 13, 2009)

[+] Completely new file format (introduces many possibilities for planned 5.x features and brings tons of other advantages, for example: everything is stored in a centralized database, up to 50% less disk usage, no reorganization after a crash, and much much more)
[+] Plugin system that allows us more individual programming for specific pages. Custom Plugin creation is currently not available to the public, but it's planned to include the whole Plugin development system in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.
[+] Pre-defined Plugins for major forums (phpBB, vBulletin, IPBoard, SMF)
[+] Pre-defined Plugin to check the textual content of PDF files similar to normal web pages (this requires an additional tool to convert PDF files into text files)
[+] Bookmark properties: Import properties from another bookmark (via "Extra" button)
[+] Bookmark properties: Update properties in similar bookmarks
[+] IFRAME support
[+] Highlighting changes works more precisely
[+] Highlight changes: Strike out filtered content works more precisely
[+] Highlight keywords: regular expressions supported (format: regex(...))
[+] FavIcons are displayed on browser tabs
[+] Tabbed browsing: Close all read browser tabs
[+] Tabbed browsing: tab hints
[+] Internal browser: Zoom functionality in the Statusbar
[+] Internal browser: Show if an opened page has RSS feeds with possibility to add these feeds as new bookmarks
[+] Integration of Local Website Archive: "Open archived pages (LWA)" if bookmarks are added to Local Website Archive via bookmark actions (requires Local Website Archive 3.0+)
[+] Bookmark Action / Add to Local Website Archive: New options to automatically delete old bookmarks from Local Website Archive (this works only in combination with Local Website Archive 3.0+ and pages that were archived with WebSite-Watcher 5.0+)
[+] RSS feeds: New option to ignore changed postings (if enabled, WebSite-Watcher will monitor RSS feeds for new postings only)
[+] AutoWatch: improved time configuration and countdown calculation (probably your time settings need some re-configuration due to these changes)
[+] Follow Links: "Follow links to external domain" is now a separate option and can be used to monitor a whole domain inclusive all external links
[+] Daily Auto-Backup: Backup the opened bookmark files once a day (can be restored via Tools+Backup/Restore)
[+] Backup: Check database integrity before backup
[+] WebSite-Watcher asks which browser tabs to re-open after a program crash
[+] Compose Newsgroups postings: Spelling check
[+] Extended Search: New/better presentation of search results
[+] Extended Search: Found regular expression matches are highlighted
[+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Separate setting for e-mails and subjects
[+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Append to bookmark notes
[+] Report - new fields: {wsw_url_foldername} and {wsw_url_folderpath}
[+] Bookmark Action / Export: Filename supports variables {id}, {datetime} and date variables with format "" (similar to date variables in URLs)
[+] New bookmark option: "Prevent horizontal scrolling" if the page width is larger than the browser window (bookmark properties + "Options" tab)
[+] Bookmark properties: Remember tab if bookmark properties are re-opened within a short time
[+] Check-By-Date:WebSite-Watcher now uses the most recent file date (a check could report false positives if a server swapped between different file dates, eg after redirecting to different servers)
[+] Synchronize: Sync functionality is now based on bookmark id and not on URLs to sync bookmarks
[+] Wildcard filter: More atomic match detection
[+] Various dialogs: Many dialog elements can be accessed via shortcuts
[+] Themes of Office XP/2003/2007
Tons of smaller changes, improvements and fixes

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 9 (Dec 23, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 8 (Dec 19, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 7 (Dec 12, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 6 (Dec 5, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 5 (Dec 1, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 4 (Nov 27, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 3 (Nov 11, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 2 (Nov 5, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta 1 (Oct 29, 2008)

Completely new file format (introduces many possibilities for planned 5.x features and brings tons of other advantages, for example: everything is stored in a centralized database, up to 50% less disk usage, no reorganization after a crash, and much much more)
Plugin system that allows us more individual programming for specific pages. Custom Plugin creation is currently not available to the public, but it's planned to include the whole Plugin development system in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.
Pre-defined Plugins for major forums (phpBB, vBulletin, IPBoard, SMF)
Pre-defined Plugin to check the textual content of PDF files similar to normal web pages (this requires an additional tool to convert PDF files into text files)
Bookmark properties: Import properties from another bookmark (via "Extra" button)
Bookmark properties: Update properties in similar bookmarks
IFRAME support
Highlighting changes works more precisely
Highlight changes: Strike out filtered content works more precisely
Highlight keywords: regular expressions supported (format: regex(...))
FavIcons are displayed on browser tabs
Tabbed browsing: Close all read browser tabs
Tabbed browsing: tab hints
Internal browser: Zoom functionality in the Statusbar
Internal browser: Show if an opened page has RSS feeds with possibility to add these feeds as new bookmarks
Integration of Local Website Archive: "Open archived pages (LWA)" if bookmarks are added to Local Website Archive via bookmark actions (requires Local Website Archive 3.0+) - BLOG
Bookmark Action / Add to Local Website Archive: New options to automatically delete old bookmarks from Local Website Archive (this works only in combination with Local Website Archive 3.0+ and pages that were archived with WebSite-Watcher 5.0+) - BLOG
RSS feeds: New option to ignore changed postings (if enabled, WebSite-Watcher will monitor RSS feeds for new postings only)
AutoWatch: improved time configuration and countdown calculation (probably your time settings need some re-configuration due to these changes)
Follow Links: "Follow links to external domain" is now a separate option and can be used to monitor a whole domain inclusive all external links
Daily Auto-Backup: Backup the opened bookmark files once a day (can be restored via Tools+Backup/Restore)
Backup: Check database integrity before backup
WebSite-Watcher asks which browser tabs to re-open after a program crash
Compose Newsgroups postings: Spelling check
Extended Search: New/better presentation of search results
Extended Search: Found regular expression matches are highlighted
Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Separate setting for e-mails and subjects
Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Append to bookmark notes
Report - new fields: {wsw_url_foldername} and {wsw_url_folderpath}
Bookmark Action / Export: Filename supports variables {id}, {datetime} and date variables with format "" (similar to date variables in URLs)
Bookmark properties: Remember tab if bookmark properties are re-opened within a short time
Check-By-Date:WebSite-Watcher now uses the most recent file date (a check could report false positives if a server swapped between different file dates, eg after redirecting to different servers) - Thread
Synchronize: Sync functionality is now based on bookmark id and not on URLs to sync bookmarks
Wildcard filter: More atomic match detection - BLOG
Themes of Office XP/2003/2007
Tons of smaller changes, improvements and fixes

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.42 (Jul 21, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.42 Beta 5 (Jul 2, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.42 Beta 4 (Jun 24, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.42 Beta 2 (May 29, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.42 Beta 1 (May 20, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.41 Final (May 5, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.41 Beta 3 (Apr 30, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.41 Beta 2 (Apr 25, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.41 Beta 1 (Apr 25, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.40 Final (Mar 26, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.40 Beta 5 (Mar 20, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.40 Beta 4 (Mar 12, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.40 Beta 3 (Feb 14, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.40 Beta 2 (Jan 30, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.40 Beta 1 (Jan 28, 2008)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.35 Final (Nov 26, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.35 Beta 3 (Nov 13, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.35 Beta 2 (Nov 8, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.35 Beta 1 (Oct 30, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.34 Final (Oct 24, 2007)

[ ] WebSite-Watcher can be installed in portable mode.
[ ] WebSite-Watcher automatically detects and deletes outdated ignore and watch filters
[ ] If WebSite-Watcher cannot highlight (visible) changes in a page, then a special info bar is displayed. A single click onto that info bar opens the "Test filter/Compare versions" window.
[ ] Deleting bookmarks with Auto-Delete option (folder properties) and deleting bookmarks from Trash are now performed frequently when you run WebSite-Watcher 24x7 (and not only on program exit)
[x] Filter-Wizard: TEXT and TEXT(2) tabs have been merged
[ ] Filter-Wizard: TEXT view keeps highlighted changes
[ ] Extended Search: Browser toolbar has a "Page" submenu
[ ] New bookmark option: Advanced Troubleshooting Show hidden elements
[ ] Browser integration - WebSite-Watcher displays in the menu (of the WSW eye icon) if an URL already exists
[ ] "Jump to first/next keyword" uses only keywords within highlighted changes
[ ] Date variable in URLs enhanced, the offset can now also be defined in hours, minutes or seconds
[ ] New report variables: {wsw_url_relpath_filename}, {wsw_url_relpath_filename_chg} and {wsw_url_relpath_filename_chg1}
[ ] After changing a macro you'll be asked if you want to change the existing URL to the new macro starting URL (if they differ)
[ ] Bookmark notes: URLs are automatically highlighted
[x] Jump to first change in large .txt files: Performance improvements
[x] Highlight keywords in newsgroup bodies and RSS feeds improved
[x] If WebSite-Watcher cannot highlight all keywords in a page, then WebSite-Watcher jumps to the warning at the beginning of the page instead of the first highlighted change
[x] NTLM proxy authentication improved (wininet technology)
[x] Proxy support with user/password authentication improved (wininet technology)
[ ] Script command "SendMail": user defined variables can be used in mail bodies
[x] Performance improvements during a check run
[x] Option "Ignore error codes from server" works now also with check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser"
[x] Import bookmarks from Opera and Firefox: Encoded characters (eg. & or :) are decoded correctly
[x] Special character • is now decoded correctly
[x] Improved Javascript handling (pages with unclosed javascript tags weren't displayed correctly under certain circumstances)
[x] Internal browser: Tab handling improved
[x] Improved CSS filtering (CSS definitions weren't filtered correctly under certain circumstances)
[x] Internet Explorer Macro functionality improved
[x] Highlighting keywords improved (some short keywords could sometimes not be highlighted)
[x] Detect duplicates: bookmarks with macros handled correctly
[x] "Restore previous version" no longer deletes the old version
[x] Bookmark properties: if check method is "by content" and file type is "binary", then files are downloaded and saved in original format
[x] Simultaneous connections for local files (file:// protocol) has been limited to 1
[x] Speed of checking local directories with lots of files significantly improved
[x] Restore bookmarks/program configurations improved
[-] File Open didn't use the folder of the currently opened bookmark file (as in previous versions)
[-] Links and image addresses were not converted correctly in phpBB3 forums
[-] Checking a newsgroup could fail under certain circumstances
[-] Some untypical URLs were not converted to absolute addresses correctly
[-] Browser tabs weren't displayed correctly under WinXP x64
[-] WebSite-Watcher could crash when moving bookmarks to other folders while the Ctrl key was pressed
[-] Combination of features "Follow Links", "Alert on initialization" and "Update on keywords" didn't work correctly
[-] Redirections from HTTPS to HTTP could fail with the internal checking method under certain circumstances
[-] Follow-Links didn't work under certain circumstances
[-] Check-Macros: Some URLs with anchors could not be recorded correctly
[-] Multiple keywords could not be pre-defined in general program configuration
[-] Umlauts and other special characters weren't displayed correctly in RSS feed tooltips
[-] "Jump to first keyword" didn't work for initialized pages (without highlighted changes) in Beta-1
[-] HTML mails could not be sent under certain circumstances
[-] Pages with CSS could be broken under certain circumstances
Hebrew translation added
Tons of internal code improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.34 Beta 4 (Oct 16, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.34 Beta 3 (Oct 10, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.34 Beta 2 (Oct 2, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.34 Beta 1 (Aug 6, 2007)

[ ] WebSite-Watcher can be installed in portable mode (menu "Help" Install on Removable drive).
[ ] Extended Search: Browser toolbar has a "Page" submenu
[ ] New bookmark option: Advanced Troubleshooting Show hidden elements
[ ] Browser integration - WebSite-Watcher displays in the menu (of the WSW eye icon) if an URL already exists
[ ] "Jump to first/next keyword" uses only keywords within highlighted changes
[ ] Date variable in URLs enhanced, the offset can now also be defined in hours, minutes or seconds
[ ] New report variables: {wsw_url_relpath_filename}, {wsw_url_relpath_filename_chg} and {wsw_url_relpath_filename_chg1}
[x] Performance improvements during a check run
[x] Option "Ignore error codes from server" works now also with check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser"
[x] Import bookmarks from Opera and Firefox: Encoded characters (eg. & or :) are decoded correctly
[x] Special character • is now decoded correctly
[x] Improved Javascript handling (pages with unclosed javascript tags weren't displayed correctly under certain circumstances)
[x] Internal browser: Tab handling improved
[x] Improved CSS filtering (CSS definitions weren't filtered correctly under certain circumstances)
[x] Internet Explorer Macro functionality improved
[x] Highlighting keywords improved (some short keywords could sometimes not be highlighted)
[x] Detect duplicates: bookmarks with macros handled correctly
[x] "Restore previous version" no longer deletes the old version
[x] Bookmark properties: if check method is "by content" and file type is "binary", then files are downloaded and saved in original format
[x] Simultaneous connections for local files (file:// protocol) has been limited to 1
[x] Speed of checking local directories with lots of files significantly improved
[-] File Open didn't use the folder of the currently opened bookmark file (as in previous versions)
[-] Links and image addresses were not converted correctly in phpBB3 forums
[-] Checking a newsgroup could fail under certain circumstances
[-] Some untypical URLs were not converted to absolute addresses correctly
[-] Browser tabs weren't displayed correctly under WinXP x64
[-] WebSite-Watcher could crash when moving bookmarks to other folders while the Ctrl key was pressed
[-] Combination of features "Follow Links", "Alert on initialization" and "Update on keywords" didn't work correctly
[-] Redirections from HTTPS to HTTP could fail with the internal checking method under certain circumstances - Thread
Tons of internal code improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.33 Final (May 30, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.33 Beta-2 (May 25, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.33 Beta-1 (May 10, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.32 Final (Apr 23, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.31 Final (Apr 12, 2007)

[ ] Validation if invalid e-mail addresses are entered in bookmark properties (SendMail action)
[x] Send e-mails: improved error handling and reporting
[ ] New Report/Export system
[ ] Report: Extracted changes preserve links
[ ] Report: new variable {wsw_ansi} to save reports in Ansi format (instead of UTF-8 format)
[ ] Report: variable {wsw_dateformat(...)} can be placed within a report and must no longer be defined in the report window
[x] Predefined report templates reworked
[ ] Bookmark action "Local Website Archive": Folder can be selected via user interface
[ ] Find (Ctrl F or Bookmarks Search Find) searches also in text of bookmark actions, for example in e-mail addresses
[x] If an RSS feed contains a content field, then use this field instead of the description field - Thread
[ ] Bookmark properties / Ignore updates: New option "Don't mark as changed if page has less than XX characters"
[ ] Error log window: bookmark properties can be opened directly within the error log window
[ ] Error log window: erroneous e-mails can be deleted from the outbox directly within the error log window
[ ] If locally saved pages are opened in an external browser, then the URL is added to the document title
[ ] RSS template "Headlines" shows found keywords in a separate line (similar to newsgroups)
[x] Extended search can also be started when a check is running and no longer interrupts the AutoWatch countdown
[x] Extended Search: Usage of regular expression option should be more clear
[x] Internal check handling improved
[x] Check technology "Internet Explorer / Browser" improved
[-] Recording an "Internet Explorer Macro" within the New-Bookmark Wizard didn't work correctly
[-] Empty bookmark lists could not be saved into a new .wsw file
[x] Internet Explorer Macros improved - Thread
[-] Check-Macros failed under certain circumstances - Thread
[x] Execution of AutoStart scripts improved
[-] Export to Local Website Archive was broken under certain circumstances
[-] Vista: Internet Explorer browser integration didn't work in protected mode
Finnish month/day names for AutoFilters added
Some Windows Vista related improvements
Minor fixes

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.31 Beta-4 (Apr 2, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.31 Beta-3 (Mar 26, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.31 Beta-2 (Mar 22, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.31 Beta-1 (Mar 7, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Final (Feb 14, 2007)

[ ] Windows Vista fully supported: Flip 3D, thumbnail preview, use "Segoe UI" as default font, etc.
[ ] Newsgroups functionality (this feature is only available in the Personal-Edition and in the Business-Edition)
[ ] New Check-Macro recording method: Internet Explorer Macro (this method goes a completely different way to the already existing methods and can be used especially for Javascript based pages or logins, more infos can be found in the help file).
[ ] Program configuration Connections: Definition of advanced connection rules (for example limit simultaneous connections to a specified server/URL and wait x seconds between checks).
[ ] EMails are queued in an outbox and no longer sent on-the-fly
[ ] SSL support for sending emails (works now with gmail accounts)
[ ] Mail server configuration: Multiple mail server configurations can be saved
[ ] Firefox context menu extension to add the currently opened page to WebSite-Watcher (can be installed in the program configuration window)
[ ] Program configuration / Check / Connections: The HTTP-Header "Accept-Language" can be configured
[ ] Error log for failed bookmark actions (for example when WebSite-Watcher could not export a page to Local Website Archive)
[ ] Bookmark properties: Alert on Initialization/Changes/Errors
[ ] Report / New global switch: {wsw_encode_html} - use this option if you want to export into XML, RSS or OPML format.
[ ] Report / New export template: Export to RSS feed
[ ] Bookmark properties: If the Ctrl key is pressed while clicking the "Check Now" button, then the bookmark is opened automatically.
[ ] Password protected pages with NTLM authentication fully supported
[ ] Bookmark / Replace: Additional fields for bookmark actions, Check-Macro and PostData
[ ] Bookmark / Replace: Option to replace in all/selected bookmarks
[ ] Internal browser / context menu: "Open in new tab" and "Open in new window" supported (only if Internet Explorer 7 is installed)
[ ] If WebSite-Watcher cannot check pages due to a wrong proxy configuration (eg. NTLM or username/password), then WebSite-Watcher aborts the check and displays a dialog with further details how to solve this issue
[ ] Wizard for local files/folders
[ ] Internal browser toolbar: "Test filter" can directly be called from the toolbar
[ ] Internal browser toolbar: "Filter Assistant" can directly be called from the toolbar
[ ] Adding RSS feeds from FireFox by clicking a RSS link works now when you select WebSite-Watcher as default feed reader in Firefox
[ ] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: "Additional info fields" added
[x] Changing the RSS template in the internal browser (by clicking the full/headlines link) changes the bookmark properties, too
[ ] Improved handling of RSS feeds with unclosed tables (buggy feeds are fixed by WebSite-Watcher automatically)
[x] Improved processing of RSS feeds with unclosed HTML tags
[x] Internal check technology completely rewritten
[x] Internal check technology supports https protocol
[x] Send Mails: Better codepage handling
[x] Email configuration: "Secure MD5 authentication" must no longer configured explicitly
[x] Tweak (custom.ini): Alternative email server configuration had to be dropped due to the outbox functionality
[x] PDF files are now always opened in the external browser (instead of embedding them in the internal browser of WSW) to bypass some incompatibilities between the embedded IE and PDF files
[x] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" for pages with frames improved
[x] Internal Browser improvements
[x] Improved detection if a keyword is within changed content
[x] Better performance when checking RSS feeds
[x] Automatic page type detection improved when a server doesn't send any information
[x] WebSite-Watcher no longer enforces checks until an "unavailable" bookmark is initialized
[x] Partial check of binary files improved
[x] Tweak "UseProxyIfUrlExists=" improved
[x] Some conflicts with virus scanners and desktop search engines fixed (when these kind of tools block files)
[x] Some performance improvements when highlighting keywords
Many smaller changes/improvements
[-] WebSite-Watcher could hang when downloading CSS files with abnormal addresses
[-] Windows Vista: Registering WebSite-Watcher as default Feedreader could cause a crash
[-] Character encoding could be broken in RSS feeds
[-] AutoWatch could be deactivated unexpectedly under rare circumstances
[-] If the option "Don't prepare anything for offline browsing" is enabled, then images are no longer downloaded (even if configured)
[-] Images were not displayed in the internal browser under certain circumstances
[-] Some compatibility problems fixed (WSW couldn't be started on certain systems)
[ ] Uninstall can optionally remove program configuration and/or bookmark lists
[x] Uninstall works more precisely
Lots of smaller improvements

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 12 (Feb 8, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 11 (Feb 5, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 10 (Jan 30, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 9 (Jan 26, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 8 (Jan 15, 2007)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 7 (Dec 7, 2006)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 6 (Dec 5, 2006)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 4 (Oct 27, 2006)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 3 (Oct 24, 2006)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 1 (Oct 20, 2006)

New in WebSite-Watcher 4.22 Final (Oct 19, 2006)

[ ] Included CSS files fully supported. If CSS files include links to other CSS files, then they are downloaded instead of ignoring them (for example NY Times) - Thread
[-] WebSite-Watcher could hang when opening the version with highlighted changes
[x] Improved detection of new postings or replies in table based forums
[x] Prevent highlighting of filtered parts improved
[x] wininet check technology improved (a server could report an error in combination with WebSite-Watcher under rare circumstances)
[-] Ctrl Shift Click on a link didn't work when the internal browser was maximized - Thread
[-] "Set properties in all selected bookmarks" didn't work immediately for several bookmark properties - Thread
[x] Internal html code parser improved, is now more compatible with browsers (pages with strange html code were displayed different to main browsers)
[x] Bookmark properties "Don't prepare anything for offline browsing" improved
[x] Improved parsing of some un-typical server logs
[-] Several Unicode issues and incompatibilities fixed (especially on far east Windows versions). This should also fix the problem with disappearing filters as described in this Thread
[x] Detection and handling of pages in UTF-8 format is now compatible to web browsers
[-] Sorting bookmarks didn't work correctly in the external search window under certain circumstances
[-] FTP addresses with (instead of blanks) in the URL could not be checked - Thread
[x] Copy/Move a bookmark file to another .wsw file also copies the status info (was blank in previous versions) - Thread
[x] Some wininet workarounds and internal timeout handling improved
[x] Check-Macros with session-ids improved
[-] Monitoring a picture URL could damage the downloaded file
[-] Ordering bookmark columns didn't always work correctly
[x] Standard highlight method improved
[-] Highlighting changes could take a very long time under certain circumstances
[-] WebSite-Watcher could not highlight changes for some erroneous HTML code under rare circumstances
[-] WebSite-Watcher could hang under certain (rare) circumstances
[x] Several dialog elements and menus are more compatible to Windows colors
[-] Maximize/Minimize the internal browser made the as hidden configured main toolbar visible - Thread
[-] Filter-Wizard: Wrong tab was selected under certain circumstances - Thread
[-] Unclosed noscript tags could cause empty pages - Thread
Chinese_GB, Finnish and Polish translations updated
Smaller fixes/improvements