A1 Website Scraper News

A1 Website Scraper 12.0.1 :

• Various fixes and improvements.
• Some Mac specific fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 12.0.0 update #5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 12.0.0 update #4 :

• Improved handling of robots.txt corner cases.

A1 Website Scraper 12.0.0 update #3 :

• Improved handling of URLs using "data:" schemes.
• Improved handling of "srcset" attributes.

A1 Website Scraper 12.0.0 update #2 :

• Improved crawling/analyzing content of PDF files.

A1 Website Scraper 12.0.0 update #1 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 12.0.0 :

• Many fixes and improvements.
• Resume functionality improved to more optimally handle edge cases.
• Login functionality improved on MacOS.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #16 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Mostly Windows version specific.)

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #15 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Mostly Windows version specific.)

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #14 :

• WebView2 related fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #13 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #12 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #11 :

• Various fixes and improvements. (Windows version specific.)

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #10 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #9 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #8 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #7 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #6 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #4 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #3 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #2 :

• Improved proxies support.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 update #1 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 11.0.0 :

• Windows version now uses WebView2 by Microsoft (Chromium/Edge) when available.
• Dark theme supported on Mac.
• Crawler speed optimizations.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.5 update #7 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.5 update #6 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.5 update #5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.5 update #4 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.5 update #3 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.5 update #2 :

• Various fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.5 update #1 :

• Various fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.4 update #25 to #26 :

• Added quick preset for downloading single pages.
• Enhanced some "seed crawl from" tools.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.4 update #24 :

• Fixed a bug introduced in update #23.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.4 update #23 :

• Various small fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.4 update #19 to #22 :

• Small Windows specific fix in crawler for handling certificates with errors.
• Website login improvements.
• Mac improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.4 update #1 to #18 :

• Many miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
• Some Mac specific fixes and improvements.
• Added export to clipboard function in "File" menu.
• Fixed an issue when scanning local disk paths.
• Added support for "srcset" attribute.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.4 :

• Mac improvements.
• Various improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.3 :

• Rollup of various fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.2 update #4 :

• Various small fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.2 update #3 :

• Various small fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.2 update #2 :

• Various fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.2 update #1 :

• Much faster import.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.2 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.1 update #1 :

• Various minor improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.1 :

• Fixed a rare issue in resume crawl functionality.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #9 :

• Improved Javascript/JSON support.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #8 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #7 :

• Improved command line interface (CLI) with more flexibility.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #6 :

• Expanded command line interface (CLI) with new parameters.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #4 :

• Fixed a save issue that could occur with external to internal URL redirects.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #3 :

• AJAX crawler improvements.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #2 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 update #1 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.1.0 :

• Improved Javascript/JSON support.
• Improved High DPI support on Windows.
• Fixed a project loading issue that could happen in very big projects.
• Fixed an UI bug introduced in a recent version concerning "easy mode" option.
• Added an option to disable following and handling any links found.
• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 10.0.0 Update #4 :

• Added Excel XML spreadsheet export.
• Various fixes and improvements in crawler and user interface.

A1 Website Scraper 10.0.0 Update #3 :

• Various fixes and improvements in crawler and user interface.

A1 Website Scraper 10.0.0 Update #2 :

• Many fixes and improvemens in "Scraper options" configuration on Mac OS.

A1 Website Scraper 10.0.0 update #1 :

• Added doubleclick support on primary sizer/splitter to easily max left side.
• Various small fixes and improvements in user interface functionality.

A1 Website Scraper 10.0.0 :

• Improvements in JSON handling/parsing.
• Split option "Apply webmaster and output filters" into two separate options.
• Many small improvements in user interface functionality.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.3 update #6 :

• Fixed bug related to the embedded browser that could causes crashes on Mac.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.3 update #5 :

• Fix that could cause a crawler freeze in extremely rare circumstances.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.3 update #4 :

• Various minor enhancements.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.3 update #3 :

• Various minor enhancements.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.3 update #2 :

• Rollup of various updates and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.3 update #1 :

• Mac OS X: Earlier build required 10.14.x or newer - that has now been fixed.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.3 :

• Added AJAX support (HTML/content fetched after initial page load) on Mac OS.
• Fixed a memory issue introduced earlier regarding AJAX crawling on Windows.
• Some general improvements in handling partial URLs inside Javascript.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.2 :

• Various improvements in Mac OS version.
• Further work done on features related to version 9.3.1 update #3.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.1 update #3 :

• New crawler options making it very easy to "feed" URLs from sitemaps and RSS.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.1 update #2 :

• Improved handling of "oldschool" AJAX usage patterns in some corner cases.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.1 update 1# :

• Javascript parsing improvement.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.1 :

• Rollup of fixes and improvements for Windows and Mac versions.

A1 Website Scraper 9.3.0 :

• Rollup of fixes and improvements for Windows and Mac versions.

A1 Website Scraper 9.2.0 update #1 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 9.2.0 :

• Major updates for Mac including 64bit.
• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 9.1.0 :

• Various improvements in crawler and UI functionality.

A1 Website Scraper 9.0.0 update #2 :

• Various improvements and fixes.
• Improved AJAX support on Windows.

A1 Website Scraper 9.0.0 update #1 :

• Small improvements in user interface.

A1 Website Scraper 9.0.0 :

• Tons of fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 8.2.0 :

• Many fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 8.1.0 update #3 :

• Fixes and improvements for both Windows and Mac versions.

A1 Website Scraper 8.1.0 update #2 :

• Small fix.

A1 Website Scraper 8.1.0 update #1 :

• Fixes and improvements for both Windows and Mac versions.

A1 Website Scraper 8.1.0 :

• Many further fixes and improvements upon the version 8.0.1 updates.
• Now possible to have crawl use Mac API for HTTP/HTTPS requests. [experimental]

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.1 update #6 (Windows only) :

• Improvements in dictionary and spell checking capabilities.

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.1 update #5 :

• On Windows you can now select visual program "skin" in "Help > Styles".

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.1 update #4 :

• Many improvements and fixes across both platforms.

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.1 update #3 :

• Added option to create RSS file of scraped data - useful for syndication.
• Added FTP upload support which (also) can be automated through command line.
• Added support for swfmill for better crawling of Flash websites.

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.1 update #2 :

• Various small fixes.
• Various changes including smaller installation download.

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.1 :

• Rollup of multiple other updates and fixes.
• SSL fix for some websites when using Indy HTTP crawler engine.

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.0 update #4 :

• Many smaller fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.0 update #2 :

• Fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.0 update #1 :

• Improved Javascript handling.

A1 Website Scraper 8.0.0 :

• Improved speed when using "HTTP using "WinInet/IE" (AJAX) as "Crawler engine" (Windows only at present)
• Improvements in configuration and what can be done / extracted.
• Now supports exporting to SQL files + help automatically import SQL into DBs.
• Improvements in proxy handling.
• Various improvements and bug fixes.
• Default paths for various file kinds now more standard on Mac OS X / macOS.
• Added support for "data-" HTML5 attributes. Before you start scan, be sure to enable options "search all link tag types" and "try search inside Javascript".

A1 Website Scraper 7.7.0 update #5 :

• Various small fixes and improvements.
• Added an option to have a "date time" column in scraper.

A1 Website Scraper 7.7.0 update #4 :

• Experimental Windows support for AJAX websites. In "Scan website" select: 1) In "Crawler engine": "HTTP using "WinInet/IE". 2) In "Crawler engine": Set "Simultaneous threads" to max two. 3) In "Crawler options" Uncheck "Cutout # in internal links".

A1 Website Scraper 7.7.0 update #3 :

• Improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 7.7.0 update #2 :

• Improved W3C HTML, W3C CSS, Tidy and CSE integration.

A1 Website Scraper 7.7.0 update #1 :

• Better import.
• Export now includes support for generating simple Excel .xls files.
• Better handling of binary file content inserted into HTML.
• Big fix concerning custom ports when using the WinInet HTTP solution.

A1 Website Scraper 7.7.0 :

• Support for some AMP tags.
• Fixed an issue with GZIP compression when using WinInet HTTP crawler engine.
• Fixed as issue with the embedded browser when running the program under WINE.
• Various other small improvements and fixes for Windows and Mac OS X versions.

A1 Website Scraper 7.6.0 :

• Fixes some rare but annoying problems.
• Fixed and improvements for Mac OS X.

A1 Website Scraper 7.5.0 :

• Rollup of many updates and improvements across Windows and Mac OSX platforms.

A1 Website Scraper 7.2.0 update #July2016 :

• Major rollup of many updates.

A1 Website Scraper 7.2.0 :

• Fix of write permissions related problem when generating files on Mac OS X.
• keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS X are now more "typical" for OS X users.
• Crawler now handles invalid MIME types better in some "tricky" situations.

A1 Website Scraper 7.1.0 :

• Rollup of 7 updates to 7.0.2 (HTML forms, PDF support, crawler engine etc.)
• Various Mac OS X specific fixes for better https and unicode support.

A1 Website Scraper 7.0.2 :

• General functionality improvements and fixes.
• Mac OS X specific polish and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 7.0.1 :

• Many small updates, fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 7.0.0 :

• Native support for Mac OS X (although still to be considered "beta")
• Miscellaneous improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.5 update #1 :

• Fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.5 :

• Fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.4 :

• Many fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.3 :

• Miscellaneous small improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.2 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.1 update #1 :

• Misc. fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.1 :

• Misc. fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.0 update #1 :

• A fix regarding the option for appending to existing .CSV files.

A1 Website Scraper 6.0.0 :

• Improvemens in scrape functionality when using multiple regular expressions.
• Added a new option, so scans can append data to an existing .CSV file.
• Improved the option about only allowing unique records in .CSV files.
• A bug fix for pages using a rarely encountered Asian character set.
• Many internal small code and user interface changes and fixes.
• Memory usage reduced when crawling large websites.
• Added ".html" as a data export option for many controls.

A1 Website Scraper 5.1.0 update #4 :

• Improved code when crawling certain (very) big Unicode pages.

A1 Website Scraper 5.1.0 update #3 :

• Fixed an annoying issue that could happen in the embedded IE control.

A1 Website Scraper 5.1.0 update #2 :

• Improvement in regular expressions usage for scraping data.

A1 Website Scraper 5.1.0 update #1 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 5.1.0 :

• Various small improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 5.0.4 :

• Can now apply "output filters" toward external URLs as well.
• Fix for when showing HTML inside embedded IE 11 browser.
• Improved printing and reporting.
• Some fixes in crawler engine and its options in the user interface.

A1 Website Scraper 5.0.3 :

• Analyze website: Added tool tips for cells not big enough to show all text.
• Analyze website: Columns menu is now shown when right clicking column headers.
• Improvements in UI speed when using thousands of "limit-to" site scan filters.
• Large memory usage improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 5.0.0 :

• New option for cleaning scraped data.
• Various small fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 4.2.5 :

• Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 4.2.4 :

• Crawler fixes and enhancements.

A1 Website Scraper 4.2.3 :

• Further improvements in crawler engine.

A1 Website Scraper 4.2.2 :

• Fixed a (fairly recently introduced) bug that could cause the crawler to not properly crawl .css and .js URLs.
• Improved support for crawling buggy 404 HTTP responses if configured so.

A1 Website Scraper 4.2.1 :

• Various small fixes and improvements in the tools available.
• Fix relates to regular expressions library used.

A1 Website Scraper 4.2.0 update #1 :

• Small fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 4.2.0 :

• Fix in PCRE regex (sometimes used for filters) for empty string matches.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.7 :

• Improved importing of files containing URLs.
• Improved how imported "external" URLs were shown.
• Did so the HTTP "referer" header would be passed when viewing URLs with A1WA
• Had to adjust usage of PCRE regex engine on 64bit builds. (Earlier, regular expression could sometimes fail on 64bit builds.)
• Improved scraping configuration.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.6 :

• Fixed a "live filtering" issue which could happen when deleting items.
• Fixed a "live filtering" issue where an extra item could sometimes show.
• Improved support for intranet SharePoint websites.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.4 update #2 :

• Added a "strip HTML" option that can be applied before any scraping is done.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.4 update #1 :

• Solved a problem caused by an issue in the used Regex PCRE wrapper/library.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.4 :

• Various small fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.3 :

• Fixed a critical bug in usage of the new PCRE/regex engine used some places.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.2 :

• Added functionality so one could import a list of "external" URLs to scrape.
• Various fixes for rare URLs import and rare "treeview" CSV export problems.
• Some minute fixes in scrape data CSV file generation.
• Did so the crawler fills in "referer" HTTP header.
• Switched regex engine (used various places) to a PCRE/Perl compatible one.
• Added support for case senstive scraping.
• Fixed a problem where regex engines could cause stack overflows.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.1 :

• Small fixes and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.0 update #1 :

• Small fix concerning how start search paths are sometimes automatically added based on other configuration settings.

A1 Website Scraper 4.1.0 :

• Improvements in handling of HTTP response "location" header containing non-percentage-encoded unicode characters in the "redirect-to" URL.
• Added new option in user interface, so all found URLs can be viewed easily as both unicode characters and their corresponding URL percentage encoding.
• Improvements in handling and crawling AJAX websites.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.9 update #1 :

• Further improvements in AJAX handling and crawling

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.9 :

• Improvements in AJAX handling in crawler engine.
• Fixed an issue in the crawler engine that could occur under heavy load.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.8 :

• Memory improvements.
• Various small improvements and fixes.
• Fixed bug in "quick filter" behavior.
• Improved URL list text / CSV / XML file import.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.7 :

• New quick filter feature: Only search in URL response related columns.
• Made "quick filter" case insensitive.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.6 :

• Various improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.5 update #1 :

• Improved "Scraper options" user interface.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.5 :

• Small bug fix in WinInet HTTP handler.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.4 :

• Split "Max simultaneous connections and threads" into two separate options. You can find the options in "Scan website | Crawler engine".
• Set default in "Crawler engine | Default path type and handler" to WinInet.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.3 update #1 :

• Small fix in the "tree view" listing found URLs after site scan has finished.
• Small user interface improvements.
• Added one more website scrape example.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.3 :

• Memory usage improvements.
• Website scan progress now also shows "jobs waiting" and "jobs done" counts.
• Various small improvements in the crawler part of the website scraper tool.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.2 :

• Small improvements in scraper engine and user interface.

A1 Website Scraper 4.0.0 :

• Installer now includes a 64bit A1 Website Scraper 4.x executable which is installed on Windows 64bit systems. (Increases website scan capacity!)
• Like earlier versions of A1 Website Scraper: On Windows 32bit systems, the 32bit version of the A1 Website Scraper 4.x executable is installed.
• A bunch of other small improvements included in this first 4.0 release.
• Future development will go into 4.x branch. Registered users of earlier versions are eligible to either free or discounted upgrades. More info: http://www.microsystools.com/products/website-scraper/upgrade.php

A1 Website Scraper 3.5.1 :

• Various improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 3.4.8 :

• Some improvements in easing website scraping configuration.

A1 Website Scraper 3.4.7 :

• Large improvements and fixes in website scrape functionality and setup.

A1 Website Scraper 3.4.6 :

• Various improvements in handling Javascript.
• Fixed a problem with sorting certain website data columns.

A1 Website Scraper 3.4.5 :

• Crawler engine improvements.
• Installation now also includes a Win98/NT4 compatible executable.

A1 Website Scraper 3.4.4 :

• Crawler engine improvements.
• Other website scraping improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 3.4.0 :

• Various improvements in underlying program.

A1 Website Scraper 3.3.6 :

• Website crawler engine improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 3.3.5 :

• Wide range of website scraper tool improvements and fixes.

A1 Website Scraper 3.3.4 :

• Various small improvements in website scraper tool.

A1 Website Scraper 3.3.3 :

• Fixed various bugs.

A1 Website Scraper 3.3.1 :

• Various small improvements in website scraper tool.

A1 Website Scraper 3.3.0 :

• Various small improvements and fixes in websie scraper.

A1 Website Scraper 3.2.9 :

• Various improvements in crawler and scraper engine.

A1 Website Scraper 3.2.8 :

• Various enhancements.

A1 Website Scraper 3.2.7 :

• Fixed a minor CSS parsing issue in website crawler.
• Slightly changed how HTTP content response streams get handled.

A1 Website Scraper 3.2.5 :

• Various improvements allover in program.

A1 Website Scraper 3.2.4 :

• Various improvements allover in program.

A1 Website Scraper 3.2.3 :

• Various improvements allover in program.

A1 Website Scraper 3.2.2 :

• Lots of improvements to crawler including new options and features.

A1 Website Scraper 3.2.1 :

• Added more command line parameters.
• various additions and improvements.

A1 Website Scraper 3.1.7 :

• Fixed various issues.

A1 Website Scraper 3.1.6 :

• Fixed various issues.

A1 Website Scraper 3.1.5 :

• Starting version. The reason is that the program is built on same technology powering 4 other sibling products. Thus it is easier for customers and users if the versions match.