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Lesson 10 5 min

A jobs alert on your phone

Keep a careers page open and get a push notification on your phone as soon as its job list changes.

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How it works

Element Change watches the element matching .jobs-list and fires when its content changes, after 500 ms of quiet. Push Notification sends New jobs with high priority through ntfy to the topic you choose.

The settings of the Watch the job list trigger (Element Change): an empty CSS Selectors list with Add, Fire when Content changes, Match text, Debounce (ms) and URL Patterns.The settings of the Watch the job list trigger (Element Change): an empty CSS Selectors list with Add, Fire when Content changes, Match text, Debounce (ms) and URL Patterns.
The URL Patterns list

Set it up

  1. In Send a push notification, set Topic to a hard-to-guess name such as jobs-k7f3q. With a public ntfy.sh topic you leave Credential empty; anyone who knows the topic name can read it.
  2. Install the ntfy app on your phone and subscribe to the same topic. Topics are case-sensitive.
  3. In Watch the job list, pick the list on the careers page with the crosshair, set URL Patterns to that page, for example https://jobs.example.com/*, then save and activate.
  4. Keep the page open in a tab: Element Change only watches pages that are open in the browser and match its URL Patterns.

To test right away, edit the list’s text in the browser’s developer tools: your phone shows New jobs.

Only the roles you want

Set Fire when to Text matches with a keyword such as Designer. Too many alerts? Some pages rewrite the list on every scroll: raise Debounce (ms), or watch a more specific element such as the job count.

Key takeaways

  1. Element Change only watches pages that are open and match its URL Patterns.
  2. Push Notification sends the alert through ntfy; the topic must match exactly and is case-sensitive.
  3. Text matches limits alerts to a keyword.