08.09.11
Posted in Updates at 11:35 am by Todd Wilson
This one contains a few important fixes. For those using alpha versions I’d recommend upgrading. Here’s what it contains:
- Fixed an issue where a blank file HTTP parameter was being sent incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue with the REST interface where the wrong scrapeable_session_id was being returned.
- Fixed an issue where the HTTP connection manager was getting closed prematurely.
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07.13.11
Posted in Updates at 2:56 pm by Todd Wilson
Several minor bug fixes and updates in this one:
- Fixed a race condition where a scraping session could potentially get started by two different threads.
- DataManager: a few logging changes
- DataManager: a modification of the order of database writes when foreign keys are manually set
- DataManager: transactional support for rolling back writes
- DataManager: a framework for making data assertions
- Fixed an issue exporting large scripts that call session.executeScript.
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06.24.11
Posted in Updates at 5:23 pm by Todd Wilson
This release has just one change–we’ve added a session.setUseServerCharacterSet( boolean useServerCharacterSet ) method. In cases of sites that use international character sets this can save you a bit of trouble determining which character set the scraping session should use. That said, our experience has been that web servers don’t always tell the truth in terms of which character set their pages use, so it’s still nice to be able to specify it.
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06.21.11
Posted in Updates at 5:00 pm by Todd Wilson
Just a couple of little fixes in this one:
- Fixed a rare issue with file uploads.
- Fixed an issue with extractor patterns getting interrupted.
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05.11.11
Posted in Updates at 2:57 pm by Todd Wilson
Just a couple of minor bug fixes in this one:
- Fixed an issue that affects editing tokens on some older Macs.
- Fixed a bug related to line wrapping in large responses.
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05.05.11
Posted in Miscellaneous at 4:06 pm by Todd Wilson
I made a boo-boo. To make it short, if you downloaded an installer from our web site between May 3 and May 5 you may actually be running version 5.0 of screen-scraper even though it says 5.5. This was a result of an oversight on my part, and my apologies to those affected. Fortunately for you hapless victims of my carelessness the solution is simple:
- Ensure screen-scraper is not currently running.
- Edit the “screen-scraper.properties” file in your favorite text editor. This properties file is found in the “resource/conf” folder of the directory where you have screen-scraper installed.
- Inside that properties file you’ll find a “Version” property, which should say 5.5. Change it to 5.0, then save the file. This will cause screen-scraper to think that it’s at 5.0, and that it needs to upgrade.
- Launch the screen-scraper workbench. You should get a message indicating that version 5.5 of screen-scraper is available. Allow screen-scraper to download and install the update.
That’s it! Hopefully it won’t cause anyone undue angst.
You who have been updating via the normal update process should be unaffected by this snafu.
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04.19.11
Posted in Updates at 2:37 pm by Todd Wilson
I know we just released version 5.5, but we still want to keep the ball rolling. Here are the changes in this one:
- Fixed a bug where the log was being centered incorrectly after a search.
- Added “Accept all cookies” cookie policy.
- Added preliminary support for using Rackspace as an alternative to Amazon in anonymization service.
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04.01.11
Posted in Updates at 11:10 am by Todd Wilson
Queue the applause. Judging by the release notes for this one, I can honestly say we’ve put a lot into it. I wouldn’t say that there are many earth-shattering updates in this version, but there are scads of little feature enhancements and fixes. As usual, the upgrade is free to licensed users. Enjoy!
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03.24.11
Posted in Updates at 4:21 pm by Todd Wilson
Just a couple of little changes:
- Enhanced error message when screen-scraper is inhibited by a local firewall.
- Fixed a link to sub-extractor pattern help.
Smells like we might have a major version release coming out soon…
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03.22.11
Posted in Updates at 5:38 pm by Todd Wilson
Fixes in this update:
- When exporting an object it will now be selected in the tree.
- Fixed a bug related to the proxy / scrapeable file comparer.
- Updated the PHP driver so that it now detects when it can’t connect to the screen-scraper server.
- The “Runnable” tab in the web interface will now show the most recently run instance of a particular scraping session.
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