Search for a no code web scraper extension and you will find a long list of browser add-ons that record your clicks and turn a page into rows. Browse AI is one of the best known: you install its extension, click through a site, and a robot learns to repeat it. That is great when you want a spreadsheet. It is a lot of setup when the thing you actually wanted was a heads-up that a page changed.
This piece is for the second group, the people who would rather not install anything.
What the extension is doing for you
With Browse AI, the extension is the recorder. Getting started looks like this, according to its own pricing page:
- Sign up for a free account.
- Install the browser extension and follow the steps.
- Record the task you want automated while the robot watches.
- Name the robot and turn on monitoring so it runs on a schedule.
Browse AI says new users get through that in about five minutes. There are also prebuilt robots for popular sites that skip the extension entirely.
Other tools work differently. Distill, for example, can run monitors locally from its extension, which is free, but those local checks only happen while your browser is open.
The problem with scraping just to get alerts
A scraper's job is to pull fields. If you only care that a price dropped or a "sold out" label appeared, the scraper still extracts the fields every time, and you still have to spot the difference yourself. Browse AI charges credits for that work: one credit per 10 rows or per screenshot, and its free plan includes 50 credits a month across 2 websites.
The no-install route
AyeWatch skips the recorder. You open the web app or the iOS or Android app, paste a link, and write what you want to hear about in one sentence:
Tell me when this game drops below $20 or goes on sale.
Let me know when a new season or update is announced on this page.
Alert me when the event sign-up page opens.
AyeWatch checks the page on its own servers and sends a short written summary when the change matches. There is nothing to install in the browser and nothing to keep open, and because the rule is a sentence rather than a map of fields, a redesign does not break it.
It also goes past single pages. You can follow a topic, like a game you are waiting for, across news and the web, or watch accounts on Reddit, YouTube, X and TikTok, and get one alert when something new turns up.
The same goes for shopping. Point a monitor at a product page and ask to hear when it comes back in stock, and you will get one message when it does.
Side by side
| Recorder extension (Browse AI) | AyeWatch | |
|---|---|---|
| Install | Browser extension to record, or a prebuilt robot | None, web and mobile apps |
| Setup | Record clicks, name the robot, schedule it | Paste a link, write a sentence |
| What you get | Rows of data, change flags | A short summary of what changed |
| Free start | 50 credits a month, 2 websites | Free Preview, three runs, no card |
| Cheapest paid plan | $19 a month billed annually | $9 a month, 50 monitors checked hourly |
When the extension wins
If you want the data itself, say every listing on a page with its price and rating in a sheet you can sort, a recorder like Browse AI is the right tool, and AyeWatch does not export rows. Use the scraper for tables and save AyeWatch for the moments you just want to be told.
Try it
AyeWatch's Free Preview gives you three runs with no card, which is enough to see whether the alerts are what you wanted. Pro is $9 a month after that. If you want to compare more options first, AyeWatch keeps a rundown of Browse AI alternatives.