Monitor websites and RSS/Atom feeds for keywords — get notified when they appear.
WebTrack is a Nextcloud app that watches web pages and RSS/Atom feeds for specific keywords or regex patterns. When a match is detected, you receive a Nextcloud notification and, optionally, a message in a Nextcloud Talk room.
Watch any public web page for a keyword or phrase. WebTrack fetches the page, strips HTML, and searches the plain text — so you only match visible content, not markup.
Track news feeds, blogs, and any RSS or Atom source. WebTrack only notifies you about new entries (already-seen items are remembered), so you won't get spammed when you first add a feed.
- Plain text search is case-insensitive by default.
- Enable the Use Regex toggle for advanced patterns (PCRE, auto-wrapped with
/.../iuflags if no delimiters are provided).
Receive native Nextcloud notifications when a keyword is found. Notifications link directly to the monitor detail page.
Optionally post an alert to a Talk room when a keyword match is detected:
🔔 WebTrack: keyword "Linux" found on Heise Linux — …snippet with context…
Set a per-monitor Talk room, or configure a global default in Settings.
A Recent Finds widget on the Nextcloud Dashboard shows your latest keyword matches at a glance.
Every match, error, and status change is recorded in a per-monitor event timeline. Entries show the event type, timestamp, and a snippet with the matched keyword highlighted. History is retained for 100 days.
Once a keyword is found, re-notifications are suppressed for checkInterval × 3 minutes — so persistently present keywords don't flood your inbox.
- Fetch failures are tracked per monitor.
- Status escalates from
error(1–4 failures) tofailing(≥ 5 failures). - Notifications are sent at the 3rd and 5th consecutive error only.
- Download or clone this repository into your Nextcloud
apps/directory aswebtrack. - Run
composer install(no external runtime dependencies — only Nextcloud OCP APIs are used). - Build the frontend assets:
npm install npm run build
- Enable the app in Nextcloud Apps → Tools → WebTrack.
- Open WebTrack from the Nextcloud navigation bar.
- Click New monitor in the sidebar.
- Fill in:
- Name — a label for the monitor
- URL — the web page or feed URL (auto-tested on entry)
- Keyword — the text or regex pattern to watch for
- Check interval — how often to check (1 min – 24 hours)
- Talk room (optional) — receive alerts in a Talk room
- Save. WebTrack will start checking on the next background job run.
| Interval | Value |
|---|---|
| 1 minute | 1 min |
| 5 minutes | 5 min |
| 15 minutes | 15 min |
| 30 minutes | 30 min |
| 1 hour | 60 min |
| 2 hours | 120 min |
| 6 hours | 360 min |
| 12 hours | 720 min |
| 24 hours | 1440 min |
The background job runs every 10 minutes. Per-monitor intervals are enforced individually.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
🟢 ok |
Healthy, keyword not currently present |
🔵 found |
Keyword is currently detected |
🟠 error |
Fetch failed (< 5 consecutive errors) |
🔴 failing |
Fetch failing repeatedly (≥ 5 errors) |
⚪ paused |
Manually paused |
- Nextcloud 28 – 34
- PHP (standard Nextcloud requirements)
- Nextcloud Talk (
spreedapp) — optional, required for Talk notifications
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