Todd Wilson

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 … Read moreVersion 3.0.1a of screen-scraper available

This is definitely the largest release we’ve ever done. It contains all kinds of bug fixes and new features over 2.7.2, so we highly recommend upgrading. If you’re currently running version 2.7.2.9a or higher you can upgrade via Options -> Check for updates, then follow these steps: After downloading and installing the update via “Check … Read moreVersion 3.0 of screen-scraper now available

Mostly just some minor fixes and clean-ups in this one. Our to-do list is officially empty, and this time we’re *really* not throwing in anything new. We still have quite a bit more testing to do, but, who knows, maybe this one could be the gold release… The usual caveats apply–this is alpha software, so … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.23a of screen-scraper available

This new version contains one more encoding issue that should fix garbled characters in some Latin character sets. Please let us know if you find any web sites containing characters that screen-scraper incorrectly renders as boxes or question marks. Aside from that, we’ve implemented a new HTML rendering engine, which, while still not perfect, seems … Read moreVersion 2.7.2.22a 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, … 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