01.31.07
Version 3.0.1a of screen-scraper available
So it turns out that there were a couple of issues that slipped through our 3.0 screen-scraper testing. One is a bug where null session variables cause problems when they’re interpolated (e.g., ~#FOO#~) in a POST or GET parameter. The second was the omission of a file needed for screen-scraper to update itself.
If your screen-scraper was updated from a 2.7.x release, you can go ahead and just update in the usual manner (i.e., select “Check for updates…” from the “Options” menu).
If you installed a fresh copy of version 3.0, you’ll need to download the updater.jar file here, and copy it into your screen-scraper folder. After that you can update in the usual manner. Either that, or you can just re-download a version 3.0 installer, and install a fresh copy (just be sure to back up your work first if you do that).
Yet another issue we discovered deals with exporting and importing scraping sessions that use the “Mappings” feature with extractor pattern tokens. Currently if you export such a scraping session, then import it into another instance of screen-scraper, the mappings settings won’t import. We’re working on a fix, and should have that out shortly.
