Auto-Click Detection: How to Automatically Click Buttons When a Keyword Appears

Watching a page for a button to go live — "Add to cart", "Book now", "Available" — and clicking it a split second too late is frustrating. What if the extension could click it for you the instant it appears?

Auto Click Detection does exactly that. When your target keyword is detected on a refreshed page, Auto Refresh automatically clicks the matching link or button — and can open it in a new tab so your monitoring tab keeps running.

Auto Refresh

English 

Running 

Time Interval

Refresh List

Detect Keyword

Detect Keyword Premium

in stock ✕available ✕Enter keyword

 Notify the user 

 When keyword found or selector clicked

 When keyword not found or no selector matched

 Play sound on keyword found/not found or selector clicked/missed 

 Continue refreshing on keyword found/not found or selector clicked/missed 

 Auto click detected keyword 

 Open the link in a new tab if detected keyword has a link

Upgrade Plan Save

How to set up Auto-Click Detection

1. Open the Detect Keyword tab in the Auto Refresh popup.
2. Enter the keyword that marks the link or button you want clicked (e.g. "In stock").
3. Tick "Auto click detected keyword".
4. Optionally enable "Open the link in a new tab if detected keyword has a link" to keep monitoring.
5. Optionally enable "Allow repeated clicks on newly appeared keywords" for pages that update in place.
6. Click Save.

Notes and tips

• For elements without matching text — or for precise targets — use "Click element by selector" to capture a CSS/XPath target and click it directly.
• Opening in a new tab keeps your monitoring tab on the same URL so refreshing continues uninterrupted.
• Combine with sound or notifications so you are alerted at the same moment the click fires.
• Auto-click and selector click are Premium features.

Auto-click vs. click by selector

There are two ways to tell Auto Refresh what to click. The simplest is keyword-based: turn on "Auto click detected keyword", and when your keyword (say "Add to cart") appears, the extension clicks the link or button carrying that text. This is perfect when the thing you want to click is also the text you are watching for.

For everything else, use "Click element by selector". Instead of matching text, you capture a CSS or XPath selector for an exact element — a button with no readable label, an icon, or a specific row in a table — and Auto Refresh clicks that element after each refresh. You can even test the click against the live page before saving, so you know it targets the right thing.

Tips for reliable auto-clicking

Auto-click works best when your keyword uniquely identifies the element you want. A very common word can match the wrong link, so prefer a specific phrase — "Add to cart" rather than "Add". When the target is a button you cannot describe by text, the selector option is the more dependable choice because it points at the exact element.

If the page opens the clicked link in the same tab, monitoring stops because you have navigated away. Enabling "Open the link in a new tab" keeps your original tab on the monitored URL so refreshing continues. And before relying on a setup, use the built-in test click to confirm the extension is hitting the element you expect.

From limited-stock drops to appointment slots, Auto-Click Detection turns "watch and click fast" into "set it and let it click". Configure it once and let Auto Refresh win the race for you.