Point smry at a page
Most of the web announces nothing. A pricing page, a changelog, a careers board, a status page, a regulator’s notices — all of them change, and none of them tell you.watch acme.example/pricing and tell me when the prices change
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A day later, a change is an entry:
It is a feed, not a separate thing
A monitor does not live in its own corner of the product. Its changes arrive as an ordinary followed source, which means everything on Follow anything applies to it: ask what is new, put it in a Collection beside a newsletter and an X account, filter that Collection in plain English, or let a scheduled agent pick up only what it has not seen.what changed across my Competitors collection this week?A change worth more than a glance can be saved like anything else, and answers questions from your library afterwards.
Say what counts as a change
Left alone, a page changes constantly and none of it matters: a rotating banner, a timestamp, a testimonial carousel. Tell smry what you are actually watching for and it reports only that.watch their careers page, but only tell me about new engineering rolesThe alternative is exact detection, which reports any textual difference at all. Use it when the page is stable and every edit counts — a status page, a legal document, a published API contract.
Watch more than one page
The last one costs the most to run, because it is reading rather than
comparing. Reach for a single page first.
A docs site that ships changes with no changelog
Watch the sitemap. New pages appearing is the signal — you learn a feature shipped from the fact that its documentation exists.watch the sitemap at docs.acme.example and tell me when new pages show up
What cannot be watched
A page behind a sign-in cannot be monitored. Neither can a hard paywall or anything on a private network. smry sees what an anonymous visitor sees, so if the page needs your account to render, there is nothing for a monitor to read.Questions
How often does it check?
How often does it check?
As often as every 60 minutes, and daily if you do not say. An hour is the
floor — smry will not poll someone else’s page harder than that.
What does a monitor cost?
What does a monitor cost?
Runs are paid for in monthly credits. Watching a page or a sitemap reserves
1 credit per run; watching a whole site in plain English reserves 10, since
each run reads rather than compares.
How many can I have on the free plan?
How many can I have on the free plan?
Three monitors and 150 credits a month. That comfortably holds three daily
page monitors. It does not hold one hourly page monitor, because 24 runs a
day for a month is 720 credits. Paid plans hold 10 monitors on 720 credits,
and 100 on 7,200.
Why was my monitor rejected?
Why was my monitor rejected?
Usually credits rather than slots: the schedule you asked for reserves more
than your monthly budget. Slow the schedule, watch a single page instead of
a whole site, or drop a monitor you no longer read.
How do I stop one?
How do I stop one?
Unfollow it like any other source. That stops the checks and returns both
the slot and its reserved credits straight away.
Can a change trigger my agent?
Can a change trigger my agent?
Yes. A scheduled agent asks what changed and smry holds its place between
runs, so it acts on each change exactly once and stores nothing itself.
Next
Follow anything
Everything a monitor’s entries can do, because they are feed entries.
Read anything
Pull the full text of the page a change points at.
Watch a page
Target types, detection modes, schedules, and the credit maths.