11.29.12
End-of-year sale!
This is our biggest sale in quite a while. Until December 31, 2012 take 40% off Professional Edition licenses and 60% off Enterprise Edition licenses. Click here to take advantage.
10.16.12
Version 6.0.18a of screen-scraper Released
A few minor updates in the one, along with a long-awaited global find feature!
07.19.12
Let Us Help You Learn screen-scraper
We are pleased to announce our new coaching program. To help get started, our new users can receive up to two free hours of one-on-one coaching (click here for details).
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06.28.12
Version 6.0.14a of screen-scraper Released
Several small changes in this one:
- Extractor patterns invoked manually can now be tested on a sub-set of the HTML page.
- Added scrapeableFile.setForcePOST.
- Upgraded internal GWT libraries.
- Prettied up the web UI.
Check the alpha log for a full list of changes.
06.15.12
New Quick Guide video
We recently released a new Quick Guide video. In less than three minutes you can get an idea of what it’s like to use screen-scraper.
05.10.12
Version 6.0.6a of screen-scraper Released
Several small changes in this one:
- Upgraded Bean Shell to the latest version.
- Searches within a proxy session now include notes.
- Fixed an issue that would cause the workbench to freeze when the breakpiont window was up.
- Now using global proxy settings if no session proxy settings are found.
- Improved cookie handling in the proxy server.
- Fixed a bug that would cause a proxy session to not be completely saved.
- Added sutil.makeGETRequestNoSessionProxy.
05.01.12
Version 6.0.4a of screen-scraper Released
Several bug fixes and new features in this release:
- Fixed a bug such that a scrapeable session ID is now being generated even for scraping sessions that will run in the future.
- Fixed a bug where nodes in the tree weren’t being highlighted correctly.
- Scrapeable files can now be added via a URL.
- If the DatabasePort and WebServerShutdownPort properties are omitted from the screen-scraper.properties file they’ll now be automatically set to the value of an open port.
- The ProxyPort will now only be tested and used when screen-scraper is running in server mode if the AllowProxyScripting is set to true.
- Added a “Load Response from Clipboard” button to the scrapeable file panel.
- Updated BeanShell to the latest version, disabling unstable Windows scripting in the process (e.g., VBScript).
04.11.12
Version 6.0 of screen-scraper released!
It’s now official! Precisely one year after our last major release (5.5) we’ve let loose version 6.0. This is undoubtedly our most feature-rich rock-solid version yet. Take a glance through the release notes for a list of the myriad of changes. Better yet, either upgrade your existing instance, or download it fresh!
03.27.12
Version 5.5.43a of screen-scraper Released
Just a couple of small changes:
- Updated session.downloadFile to use current proxy settings.
- Updated tool-tips in script editor to accurately reflect API changes.
With a little luck we’ll be having a 6.0 release in the next week or so…
02.22.12
Version 5.5.40a of screen-scraper Released
Several minor fixes in this release:
- Fixed an issue related to renaming scraping sessions.
- Added a couple of check boxes to wrap text to the proxy panels.
- Made a fix to ensure consistency in line wrapping the last response text box.
- Now centering the search result in the proxy.
- Fixed text related to the edition to be more consistent.
- Fixed a bug related to stopping scraping when an infinite redirect is encountered.