Get Notified When a Government Page Changes
Government pages change without announcements: a visa fee goes up, a licensing checklist gains a document, a council posts a planning notice, a regulator revises guidance. If your work depends on one of those pages, you can check it every week and still miss the day it changed. RivalPeek.io watches the page for you and tells you when the part you care about changes.
Rules you can type
- “Tell me when the application fee changes.”
- “Alert me if the fee goes above 200.”
- “Tell me about any change to the eligibility section.”
- On a notices page: “Tell me when a new notice mentions food labelling.”
- “Let me know if the words ‘applications are closed’ appear.”
Each becomes a rule you can read before approving: the part of the page being watched, what it says today, and anything it cannot cover.
How it works
- Open the official page and copy its address. Prefer the page itself over a search result or a news article about it.
- Describe the change. If the page offers readable sections, pick the one you mean rather than the whole page.
- Approve the watch. Each check compares the readable text, number or list with the last good reading.
- When a change matches, the alert shows the old and new wording side by side with a link to the source.
Keeping the noise down
Government sites are full of things that change without meaning anything: “page last reviewed” dates, rotating banners, cookie notices and language menus. Text comparisons filter recognised short timestamp and boilerplate lines, but do not suppress every date format or banner change. A narrower target helps more: watching the fees table instead of the whole page means an edit to the sidebar never reaches you.
For notice and announcement lists, a new-items rule is usually better than a text rule. It reports newly listed notices, optionally only those mentioning your terms, rather than every edit to the page. Where a list is hard to read, RivalPeek.io can look for an RSS or Atom feed published by the same site.
What it will not do
- Read pages that need a citizen or business login, or results that only appear after submitting a search form.
- Explain what a change means for you. It reports what changed; a person still decides whether it matters.
- Follow a link to a new document automatically when an agency replaces one PDF with another. Watch the page that lists the documents too.
Which plan fits
Most people watch a handful of official pages that change rarely, so page count matters more than speed. Starter covers 20 pages checked every hour with email alerts, which suits a short list of pages. Pro covers 150 pages checked every 15 min and adds Slack and webhook alerts. Business covers 500 pages checked every 15 min for larger watchlists.
Related pages
- Regulatory and policy change alerts
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- GeBIZ tender alerts
- All use cases and comparisons
Choose your monitoring capacity
Choose a plan for the pages you need to follow. Starter costs USD $19/month for 20 pages, with ordinary checks every hour. Annual billing is USD $190/year. Pro costs USD $39/month for 150 pages, with ordinary checks every 15 min. Annual billing is USD $390/year. Business costs USD $99/month for 500 pages, with ordinary checks every 15 min. Annual billing is USD $990/year. These are scheduled checks, not a live stream; availability and the check queue can affect when a result arrives.
Pages requiring protected checking use a separate allowance and a slower schedule. Access is not guaranteed, and some sites block automated visits. Start with a representative public URL and review the result before expanding your watchlist.
Frequently asked questions
Will a new “last updated” date trigger an alert?
Recognised short timestamp lines, such as “updated 2 hours ago”, are filtered when comparing text. Other date formats and dates within longer sentences may still trigger alerts.
Can it watch a government PDF?
Supported public PDFs can be read as text. Scanned images, password-protected or very large files may not work, so check the extracted text in the review.
What if the agency moves or deletes the page?
The check reports a problem and keeps the last good result instead of guessing. You get an alert that the watch stopped working, so you can find the new address.
Can it watch pages behind Singpass, MyDigital ID or another login?
No. Only pages anyone can open without signing in can be watched.
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