About content-monitor
A skill for monitoring webpages and capturing updated content for comparison over time. It accepts a URL and an optional CSS selector, and supports recurring checks.
Key features
- 01Monitors webpages for changes
- 02Captures timestamped content snapshots
- 03Supports recurring checks
- 04Targets a section with a CSS selector
Use cases
- 01Tracking updates to a webpage
- 02Monitoring a selected page section
- 03Scheduling recurring content checks
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ cowork-os/ cowork-os --skill content-monitorAfter installing, type/content-monitorin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEContent Monitor
Purpose
Monitor web pages for changes and extract updated content with scheduling support.
Routing
- Use when: Use when the user wants to monitor a webpage for changes, track content updates, or set up recurring content checks.
- Do not use when: Don't use for one-time scraping where web-scraper skill is more appropriate.
- Outputs: Content snapshot with timestamp for comparison, optionally scheduled for recurring checks.
- Success criteria: Captures a clean content snapshot that can be compared with future scrapes to detect changes.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the content-monitor skill for this request.
- Help me with content monitor.
- Use when the user wants to monitor a webpage for changes, track content updates, or set up recurring content checks.
- Content Monitor: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- Don't use for one-time scraping where web-scraper skill is more appropriate.
- Do not use content-monitor for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside content monitor scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | URL to monitor for changes |
| selector | string | No | CSS selector for the section to monitor (optional) |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 997 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../content-monitor.json.
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