Updates

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, … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.21a of screen-scraper available

I’m happy to report that any Python lovers out there can now invoke screen-scraper from their scripts. Thanks much to Litao Wei for creating a Python driver for us. The code is excellent. Those interested can find documentation on the topic here. We also included an example in our fourth tutorial here. Along these same … Read morePython now groks screen-scraper

Well, so we found a few annoyances/bugs that we decided to slip into a new build. There will likely be at least one more before we do a public release. In addition to a few bug fixes, this version contains two slick new methods: session.saveVariables and session.loadVariables, which will respectively save session variables to a … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.20a of screen-scraper available

This may be the one that becomes the next public version. There were a few little annoying GUI quirks that we fixed. Feel free to give it a try and let us know if you notice anything out of the ordinary. The usual caveats apply–this is alpha software, so use it at your own risk. … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.19a of screen-scraper available

Just a few little bug fixes in this one. There was a pretty annoying problem that would cause the GUI to freeze up from time to time. It turned out to be a bug in Sun’s Java code, but fortunately there was a relatively painless workaround. The usual caveats apply–this is alpha software, so use … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.18a of screen-scraper available

Our to-do list is empty! This version contains all of the bug fixes and features we’ve had planned for the next version of screen-scraper. I suppose you could consider it to be more of a beta, or maybe even a release candidate. There really isn’t anything earth-shatteringly new in this version over 2.7.1.16a–mostly just bug … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.17a of screen-scraper available

Yeah, we kind of silently released 2.7.2.15a, for those of you who are keeping track. We didn’t do as much testing on it as we normally do, so I didn’t want to make it known too broadly. 2.7.2.16a is performing nicely, so feel free to have at it. There are a few new little doo-dads … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.16a of screen-scraper available

Not too much new in this one. It more or less just cleans up some annoying bugs that crept into the previous versions. 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 … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.14a of screen-scraper available

Come ‘n get it! Several clean-ups in this one, as well as a few new features. screen-scraper will now back up its database automatically. It’s rare, but we still get reports occasionally of corrupted screen-scraper databases (which can often mean loss of work). We use a database called Hypersonic, which can be amazingly fragile if … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.13a of screen-scraper available

I think we’re getting awful close to a public release. This one looks to be pretty stable. Not too many major changes this time around. You’ll discover a few little niceties, along with some bug fixes and clean-ups to minor issues that have probably been annoying you. As always, please let us know of any … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.12a of screen-scraper available