Site profiles

#What a profile is for

Some badges are hard to read. LinkedIn states its count in an accessibility label. Rive Community removes the badge from the page when the count is zero. Contra draws its numbers as an animated odometer. Each built-in profile was captured from the live, signed-in page and stores what works for that site, so you do not have to find it by trial and error.

A profile fills in these watcher fields:

#Use a profile

1. Click the WebWatcher icon in the menu bar, then Add Watcher.

   You seethe Add Watcher window on its Web page tab.

2. Open the Site picker at the top of the window and choose your site, for example LinkedIn Notifications.

   You seea line under the picker that explains how this profile reads the count, and a URL to Monitor (must be open in Safari) field already filled in. Which element? reads "Using the built-in recipe for LinkedIn Notifications." with a Set up manually instead link.

3. Change Name or Check Interval if you want to.

4. Open the site in a Safari tab and sign in.

5. Back in the editor, click Run Diagnosis.

   You seea list of checks and a summary such as "Reading: 3" or "Confirmed zero — the anchor is present and there's no badge."

6. Click Save.

   You seethe window closes and the watcher is checked straight away.

To leave a profile and set the watcher up by hand, click Set up manually instead. The profile is dropped and the guided picker steps appear.

#Built-in profiles

The Site picker lists these profiles after Custom (choose elements yourself).

Anchor + badge means the profile looks for a badge beside a button that is always on the page. When the button is there and the badge is not, WebWatcher reads a confirmed zero.

Any site — tab title (N) is the one profile that is not tied to a site. It needs no selector, so it works on any page that puts the count in its title, such as an inbox tab reading "(3) Inbox". Type the page address into URL to Monitor (must be open in Safari).

#How the profile finds your tab

A profile does not look at which site you are on. You choose it, and it then decides which Safari tab to read:

• WebWatcher first looks for a tab whose address starts with the profile's page address, for example https://www.linkedin.com/feed/.
• If none matches, it looks for a tab on the profile's domain. The domain linkedin.com matches linkedin.com, www.linkedin.com and any subdomain of it.
• If several tabs match, visible tabs come first.

The page address matters because some pages of a site do not contain the badge. LinkedIn's notifications page has no navigation bar, so a tab sitting there cannot report a count. When the tab found is on another page of the site and Open the page automatically if no tab is found is on, WebWatcher opens the profile's page in a background tab and reads that one.

#When your site is not listed

1. In the Site picker, leave Custom (choose elements yourself) selected.
2. Use the guided picker to find the badge. Finding the element describes the three steps.
3. If the page shows the count in its tab title, choose Any site — tab title (N) instead. It needs no selector.

For worked examples of custom watchers, see Example watchers.

#If it does not work

Troubleshooting covers every message a watcher row can show.