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{{ render_field(form.trigger_text, rows=5, placeholder="Some text to wait for in a line /some.regex\d{2}/ for case-INsensitive regex ") }}

• {{ _('Text to wait for before triggering a change/notification, all text and regex are tested case-insensitive.') }}
• {{ _('Trigger text is processed from the result-text that comes out of any CSS/JSON Filters for this monitor') }}
• {{ _('Each line is processed separately (think of each line as "OR")') }}
• {{ _('Note: Wrap in forward slash / to use regex example:') }} /foo\d/
• {{ _('You can also use')}} {{ _('conditions')}} - {{ _('"Page text" - with Contains, Starts With, Not Contains and many more' ) }} /foo\d/

{{ render_field(form.ignore_text, rows=5, placeholder="Some text to ignore in a line /some.regex\d{2}/ for case-INsensitive regex ") }}

• {{ _('Matching text will be ignored in the text snapshot (you can still see it but it wont trigger a change)') }}
• {{ _('Each line processed separately, any line matching will be ignored (removed before creating the checksum)') }}
• {{ _('Regular Expression support, wrap the entire line in forward slash') }} /regex/
• {{ _('Changing this will affect the comparison checksum which may trigger an alert') }}

{{ render_ternary_field(form.strip_ignored_lines) }}

{{ render_field(form.text_should_not_be_present, rows=5, placeholder=_("For example: Out of stock Sold out Not in stock Unavailable")) }}

• {{ _('Block change-detection while this text is on the page, all text and regex are tested case-insensitive, good for waiting for when a product is available again') }}
• {{ _('Block text is processed from the result-text that comes out of any CSS/JSON Filters for this monitor') }}
• {{ _('All lines here must not exist (think of each line as "OR")') }}
• {{ _('Note: Wrap in forward slash / to use regex example:') }} /foo\d/

{{ render_field(form.extract_lines_containing, rows=5, placeholder=_("celsius temperature price")) }}

• {{ _('Keep only lines that contain any of these words or phrases (plain text, case-insensitive)') }}
• {{ _('One entry per line — any line in the page text that contains a match is kept') }}
• {{ _('Simpler alternative to regex — use this when you just want lines about a specific topic') }}
• {{ _('Example') }}: {{ _('enter celsius to keep only lines mentioning temperature readings')|safe }}

{{ render_field(form.extract_text, rows=5, placeholder="/.+?\d+ comments.+?/ or keyword") }}

• {{ _('Extracts text in the final output (line by line) after other filters using regular expressions or string match:') }}

  • {{ _('Regular expression - example') }} /reports.+?2022/i
  • {{ _('Don't forget to consider the white-space at the start of a line') }} /.+?reports.+?2022/i
  • {{ _('Use //(?aiLmsux)) type flags (more information here)', url='https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#index-15')|safe }}
  • {{ _('Keyword example - example: Out of stock')|safe }}
  • {{ _('Use groups to extract just that text - example') }} /reports.+?(\d+)/i {{ _('returns a list of years only') }}
  • {{ _('Example - match lines containing a keyword') }} /.*icecream.*/

• {{ _('One line per regular-expression/string match') }}