12.01.06
Version 2.7.2.21a of screen-scraper available
This one includes a few more bug fixes to some of the annoying quirks in the most recent alpha versions. The big breakthrough, though, is that we now seem to have worked out all of the issues related to internationalization. With the most recent set of fixes screen-scraper seems to be handling sites in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese just great. We’re not throwing any confetti just yet, but all tests have checked out perfectly so far.
The usual caveats apply–this is alpha software, so use it at your own risk. Thanks, though, to anyone willing to help us test.
If you’re currently running version 2.7.2.9a or higher you can upgrade via Options -> Check for updates. If you’re using anything else, follow these instructions (see this page for details on why you need to follow these steps):
- Back up your scraping sessions (check here for help on that).
- Ensure screen-scraper isn’t currently running (close the workbench and server, if running).
- Download this file, and unzip it.
- Copy the contents of the zip file on top of your existing files in the screen-scraper install folder. For example, the zip file contains a “screen-scraper.jar” file which should be copied on top of your existing “screen-scraper.jar” file.
- Edit your “resource\conf\screen-scraper.properties” file in a text editor. Change the “Version” property to “2.7.2.21a”.
- Launch the screen-scraper workbench.
- If all of your scraping sessions have disappeared, don’t panic!
- Close the screen-scraper workbench.
- Re-open the screen-scraper workbench.
You’re done!
