Updates Archives - screen-scrapeable

Version 7.0.14a of screen-scraper Released

October 28, 2019 by Todd Wilson

Just released a new alpha version of screen-scraper. Here are the changes: Bug fix to datamanager awaitCompletionOfPendingWrites method that could cause it to permanently block. Addition of new HTTP callback event fire times. Fixed a data manager issue when building schemas with some newer mysql drivers. Added sutil.makeGETRequestRequired(String) that issues a request even if the … Read moreVersion 7.0.14a of screen-scraper Released

Version 7.0.1a released

April 19, 2016 by jason

When you updated to version 7.0.1a, the first thing you’ll notice is spruced up GUI, but there is a quite a bit going on under the hood too. You can see all the release notes here. If you want to use this update, here is the instruction to update.

Screen-scraper 7.0 Released

January 3, 2019March 2, 2016 by jason

This new stable version adds many new features, and give you the ability to scrape sites that are using the lastest SSL features.

HTTPS connection issues

October 13, 2015April 29, 2015 by jason

We’ve been seeing lots of issues with scrapes connecting to HTTPS sites. Some of the errors include

ssl_error_rx_record_too_long
An input/output error occurred while connecting to https:// … The message was peer not authenticated.
javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: peer not authenticated

The issue came about when the Heartbleed vulnerability necessitated changes to some HTTPS connections—some of types aren’t secure anymore, and new versions have come out. Screen-scraper needed two changes to catch up, and they are:

Update to use Java 8
Update of HTTPClient to 4.4

Both of these are pretty large changes, so they aren’t in the stable release yet, however in some cases they are the only option to make a scrape work, therefore here is the instructions to get what you need.

Version 6.0.18a of screen-scraper Released

October 16, 2012 by Todd Wilson

A few minor updates in the one, along with a long-awaited global find feature!

Version 6.0.14a of screen-scraper Released

June 28, 2012 by Todd Wilson

Several small changes in this one: Extractor patterns invoked manually can now be tested on a sub-set of the HTML page. Added scrapeableFile.setForcePOST. Upgraded internal GWT libraries. Prettied up the web UI. Check the alpha log for a full list of changes.

New Quick Guide video

June 16, 2012June 15, 2012 by Todd Wilson

We recently released a new Quick Guide video. In less than three minutes you can get an idea of what it’s like to use screen-scraper. Source

Version 6.0.6a of screen-scraper Released

May 10, 2012 by Todd Wilson

Several small changes in this one: Upgraded Bean Shell to the latest version. Searches within a proxy session now include notes. Fixed an issue that would cause the workbench to freeze when the breakpiont window was up. Now using global proxy settings if no session proxy settings are found. Improved cookie handling in the proxy … Read moreVersion 6.0.6a of screen-scraper Released

Version 6.0.4a of screen-scraper Released

May 1, 2012 by Todd Wilson

Several bug fixes and new features in this release: Fixed a bug such that a scrapeable session ID is now being generated even for scraping sessions that will run in the future. Fixed a bug where nodes in the tree weren’t being highlighted correctly. Scrapeable files can now be added via a URL. If the … Read moreVersion 6.0.4a of screen-scraper Released

Version 6.0 of screen-scraper released!

April 11, 2012 by Todd Wilson

It’s now official! Precisely one year after our last major release (5.5) we’ve let loose version 6.0. This is undoubtedly our most feature-rich rock-solid version yet. Take a glance through the release notes for a list of the myriad of changes. Better yet, either upgrade your existing instance, or download it fresh!