‘AlertFor’ brings the Web to your door by creating a mechanism to set-up alerts for particular queries against any Website. It claims to automate search, monitor the Web & help save your time & labor. The platform offers to send alerts for recent product or services of any Website or business, or Online reviews & comments of your products or services & so on. “Anything is searchable is watchable,” states its Website.
The system is easy to use. You can visit the AlertFor & add your definitive query via the form provided. Required fields being:
- Query
- URL of Website to monitor
- Email address to receive Alertfor results
You may use this service for almost anything – from getting news updates to product or service launches, jobs, & so on.
In an email interview to Susan Hern, the Dubai-basedSaravanan Kumarashanmugam, Founder, Alertfor, answered a few questions on AlertFor. Here are the excerpts:
Q. Which type of queries are supported?
A: The platform supports all native queries, meaning its purely based on Site’s query capabilities. For example: facets, query parameters & so on.
Q. Is this a Web-scraper?
A: Partly yes, extraction is done by scraper. Sometimes, it uses an API.
Q. Can I rely on data presented?
A: Now, quality of the data is based on number of factors. If you are only asking with respect to the tool, Yes. It is still in an early stage. I am getting feedback from early adopters & will keep improving.
Here’s more on this, the agent has been trained to detect any Website’s:
- Search form
- Find fields & submit query
- Extract results automatically
- Alexa’s top 10,000 Websites are used to train & test the model.
Q. How do I integrate?
A: API will be released in Feb of 2019.
To summarize, this service allows users to query the Web for specific data about products, articles of interest or new services offered by Websites. The nature of information sought could be anything that your imagination can conjure.
To get your own set of reports, you can visit the Website. The product is free & requires less than a moment’s engagement.
Image Credit: AlertFor
