Thoughts, tips, and updates on screen-scraping
Quite a few little fixes and enhancements in this one: Fixed a bug related to the data set list view not displaying correctly. Fixed an issue where anonymous proxy pool would not automatically repopulate when proxies were terminated automatically. Fixed an issue in Linux where the extractor pattern panel was a bit too large. Fixed … Read moreVersion 5.0.42a of screen-scraper Released
This one just contains a minor bug fix related to the Java keystore functionality we added in earlier.
This one takes care of a couple of bugs that slipped through in the last version: Restored the horizontal scroll bar in the last response tab. Fixed an error that caused screen-scraper to disallow testing extractor patterns.
This one contains several fixes and enhancements: Fixed a bug related to hitting the “Enter” key in the find dialog box. You can now wrap text in the last request and last response panels. Rearranged elements on the last response panel so that overlapping shouldn’t occur. The delay on the script auto-complete box can now … Read moreVersion 5.0.39a of screen-scraper Released
We recently added experimental support to screen-scraper for client/PKI certificates. Some web sites require that you supply a client certificate, that you would have previously been given, in order to access them. I say this new feature is “experimental” because we’ve only been able to perform limited testing with it. So far, it does seem … Read moreUsing Client Certificates with screen-scraper
A few bug fixes in this one: Fixed a bug related to the anonymization service. The DataManager now handles reserved words correctly. Fixed a bug related to data extraction timeout. Fixed a bug related to requests being recorded with redirects. See the Alpha Log for the full history of changes.
This one contains several changes: Including a UseGlobalExternalProxyForAllScrapingSessions property in the screen-scraper.properties file will now cause global proxy settings to apply to all scraping sessions. Fixed a minor bug related to invalid extractor pattern token names. Undo in certain text boxes can now be triggered properly via keyboard shortcut on a Mac. Now notifying the … Read moreVersion 5.0.37a of screen-scraper Released
A few months ago we announced a drop in the price of our anonymization service for those using the latest alpha versions of screen-scraper. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out with this quite as we had planned, so, for the time being, we’re returning to our previous price of 25 cents per server per hour. For … Read moreAnonymization Service Price Change
Just fixed a minor bug related to cookie handling that resulted from the recent upgrade to the proxy.
In this release we’ve updated screen-scraper’s proxy server to use HttpClient version 4. HttpClient is one of the core libraries used by screen-scraper, and this upgrade should result in increased efficiency, as well as a bit of functionality we wouldn’t have without it. It’s likely that we’ll still need to work some kinks out related … Read moreVersion 5.0.35a of screen-scraper Released