Another gadget for Google Desktop! Yeah I seem to be doing a lot of these lately. They are fun and easy to write; and I like the challenge of seeing what is possible within the limitations of the Javascript language and the API Google provide (which is actually very good). My newest creation is a website or URL monitoring tool.
Download – Website Monitor v1.5.0
Features
- Monitor the availability of a websites or URLs
- Check your webservers and webpages are up and running; and responding
- Confirm the contents of the webpage, looking for specified text in the body of the page
- Check the performance of the page, by setting a response time threshold
The gadget checks all the URLs you define (as many as you like); each URL can have it’s own check frequency and other parameters. The gadget view shows a standard Red/Amber/Green display for each of the URLs you are monitoring. Red indicates the URL is unavailable; the webserver is down or some other error (e.g. 404) occurred, the monitor also shows red when the text check can not be found in the page. The URL monitor is shown in amber if the website responded too slowly and took longer to return than the threshold you specify. The monitor shows green if everything is OK with the website.
The text check function allows you to do some inventive stuff. You can check stock availability or order status or to “watch” other content. For example looking for the text “Available for pre-order” on an item on Amazon, lets you know when a item has been released (the monitor will go red, when that message changes to something else, i.e. it’s now available)
Anyway let me know what you think.
Support
Requires Google Desktop 5.7 or higher
Change Log
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.5.2 | 29-Oct-2007 | Fixes to how the URL edit field is handled, prevents the auto-hyperlink “feature” Google kindly added |
Thank you,very much.
Hi .. Very clever gadget. Just a thought. Any chance of providing a inverse logic function for the text search really
Hi .. Very clever gadget. Just a thought. Any chance of providing a inverse logic function for the text search…
I think there is a problem with your Gadget,
cannot enter the URL of my site http://bmw2011.tk or any other site. I have Website Monitor v1.5.0
think there is a problem with your Gadget, THANKS YOU
Thanks for information
Thank for the fast update!
[...] Google Desktop Gadget Website Monitor – Watch your website uptime/downtime right on your desktop. [...]
think there is a problem with your Gadget, THANKS YOU
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Love the tool, but it’s not updating the list when I change the options.
I’ve added some sites and only when I close and reopen the Google Sidebar do the monitors appear.
Any ideas?
Paul
I added this site to the monitor with no text to check but the display always stays red. Help.
I started using you free Google gadget yesterday and focused on one website Jan 11 and a different site on Jan 12. Both websites went down and would not load off the server. I removed the first site from your monitoring tool late on Jan 11 and later the site came back on line. Today the other site is now down and will not load. I have submitted a ticket to our support team to try and figure this out. Is it possible that your code with this monitoring tool is causing errors on the hosting servers?
There’s no chance it can be causing a problem with your servers. It’s doing basic HTTP requests, just like you would from a web browser. If the server falls over when processing a basic HTTP request – you’ve really got problems!