--------------------------------------------------------Visual Web Ripper 2.105.

2
--------------------------------------------------------Visual Web Ripper is created by Sequentum
www.sequentum.com
For support and other information about Visual Web Ripper,
Please visit:
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HOW TO INSTALL
--------------------------------------------------------1. Uninstall all previous versions of Visual Web Ripper
including trial versions.
2. Extract all files from VisualWebRipper.zip to a folder
on your computer.
3. Run the program setup.exe.
4. If you don't have Microsoft .NET version 4 installed on
your computer, the setup program will display the
Microsoft .NET version 4 license agreement.
4.1. Accept the license agreement to download and install
Microsoft .NET version 4 if it is not already installed.
5. The Visual Web Ripper installation process will begin.
Follow the instructions displayed by the installer to
continue installing Visual Web Ripper
NEW IN RELEASE 2.105.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Input parameters are now added to the status email sent
after a scheduled run.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.105.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Additional information about JavaScript event errors
are now added to the log file.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.105.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Move back from skipped template" for Back
templates. This option was always set to true in previous
versions, but is now set to false by default. This new
behavior may break some projects.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.105.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Some AJAX calls are not processed correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.25
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Delay after completed action" does not

always work for direct URLs.

- The HTML page attribute and XPaths selecting the outher
HTML of the HTML tag don't always return the correct HTML
content.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.24
--------------------------------------------------------- Some closed tags are skipped when using the Fast
WebCrawler parser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.23
--------------------------------------------------------- Some select boxes are not processed correctly when
using the Web Crawler agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.22
--------------------------------------------------------- The "click" action event does not work consistently
across all types of actions. The "click" action event now
always fires the click event, and the "domClick" action
event now always emulate a click on the DOM element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.21
--------------------------------------------------------- Exporting a list of data to a single column sometimes
causes an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.20
--------------------------------------------------------- Some invalid HTML tags cause an error.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.104.19
--------------------------------------------------------- Support for proxy configuration scripts (PAC).
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.18
--------------------------------------------------------- Error setting select boxes if they contain no values.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.17
--------------------------------------------------------- Page transformation does not always work correctly in
Web Cralwer mode.
- Some AJAX calls are not processed correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.16
--------------------------------------------------------- An error "Unable to find frame document" occurs when
selecting content in some IFrames.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.15
--------------------------------------------------------- Some AJAX calls are processed correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Not all AJAX calls are processed correctly.

- The advanced options window is opened in an

inconvenient location when working in full-screen mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.13
--------------------------------------------------------- Frame sets are not always loaded correctly on
Windows XP/2003.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.12
--------------------------------------------------------- IFrames are not always loaded correctly on
Windows XP/2003.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.11
--------------------------------------------------------- An error may sometimes occur when moving the mouse over
a frame element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Export denormalization doesn't always work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.9
--------------------------------------------------------- AJAX calls may cause a very small memory leak.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The installer package contains the wrong version of the
MySQL data connector.
- Pagination maybe processed in wrong order on resume
when using SQL Server or MySQL as internal database.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.7
--------------------------------------------------------- AJAX calls using relative URLs are not made correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Some URLs are parsed incorrectly when using the
WebCrawler agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Some websites using AJAX causes the software to crash.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.4
--------------------------------------------------------- An error occurs instead of a warning when trying to
screen capture while viewing the web browser.
- An error may occur in very rare scenarios when the
web browser is unable to parse a frame element.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.104.3
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Block redirects" can be used to block
redirects from the main document.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.2

--------------------------------------------------------- A webpage continuesly making AJAX calls after a full
page load may cause the software to hang.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.104.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebBrowser agent doesn't return an error when
trying to set a select box with a value that doesn't
exist in the select box.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.104.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Improved AJAX processing.
- The option "open new web browser" now redirects the
entire request to a new web browser by default instead of
just the URL.
- DeathByCaptcha server URL updated.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.103.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler agent may parse HTML incorrectly when
attributes contain the character '>'.
- The net_write_timeout and net_read_timeout settings
have been increased for MySQL connections.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.103.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Errors occur when using an internal database other than
SQLite with a multi threaded WebCrawler agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.103.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Error exporting data from some projects when using
MySQL as internal data store.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.103.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to select elements if page load is manually
stopped.
- Unable to select values from option drop down boxes if
they drop down over the web browser.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.103.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Multiple values can now be selected in a multi select
box.
- New script parameter GlobalVariables can be used in
scripts to store global variables.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.103.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Back templates are not processed when a template action
is set to Java Script and the option "Start new web
browser" is also set.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.102.5

--------------------------------------------------------- Auto-submit form templates don't wait for sub-elements.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.102.4
--------------------------------------------------------- "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
error may occur when moving the mouse pointer over an
empty frame element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.102.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to mark elements on some websites.
- "Access denied" error when marking web elements in
frames on some websites.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.102.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Elements are marked in the editor even when the editor
doesn't have focus.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.102.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to select elements in frames within frames.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.102.0
--------------------------------------------------------- A new toolbar button that can be used to show script
errors on a webpage. Script error popup dialogs are now
never shown.
- A new toolbar button that can be used to show security
issues on a webpage. Security popup dialogs are now
never shown.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.102.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Security popup dialogs may sometime appear when running
a project.
- Some websites make it impossible to mark or select web
elements.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.11
--------------------------------------------------------- All Web Crawler post requets include the "Expect: 100
Continue" header, but some web servers fail to handle
this feature correctly. Web Crawler post requets now
never include the "Expect: 100 Continue" header.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Some invalid HTML causes selections to fail in
WebCrawler view.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Setting the option "Start new web browser" when using a

JavaScript action causes an error.

- Proxy authentication does not always work.
CHANGES IN RELEASE 2.101.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Asynchronous JavaScript actions now always wait for
AJAX to complete before starting to wait for the wait
element, unless the option "Wait for AJAX on asynchronous
action" is set to false.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Version 1 agents do not suppress all security dialogs.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to select the WebCrawler agent on the Misc
options tab in Project options.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Void links with a # href attribute are not always
processed correctly.
- The InternetExplorer agent should no longer be
available but can still be selected.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Web forms using an empty action property are processed
incorrectly by the WebCrawler agent.
- Some web forms cannot be processed in a new web browser
when they should be able to.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Asynchronous JavaScript actions don't always work
correctly if the action triggers a full page load.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.2
--------------------------------------------------------- URLs containing line feeds or tabs are processed
incorrectly by the WebCrawler parsers.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.101.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Encoding is sometimes set incorrectly by the WebCrawler
parsers.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.101.0
--------------------------------------------------------- DeathByCaptcha automated CAPTCHA service integration.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.100.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Database object names are sometimes generated
incorrected when using MySQL.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.100.4

--------------------------------------------------------- Error processing anchor URLs with URL encoded
characters.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.100.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Incorrect version number displayed when upgrading.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.100.2
--------------------------------------------------------- AutoDetect actions do not work properly for
PageNavigation templates and CAPTCHA.
- Visual Web Ripper does not allow a retry if a CAPTCHA
value is entered incorrectly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.100.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Project version numbers are not updated correctly when
upgrading a project.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.100.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New Action type "AutoDetect" tries to detect the
correct action automatically. The detection and
configuration occur when the template is opened in the
editor.
- Proxies can now be imported from a CSV file.
CHANGES IN RELEASE 2.100.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The InternetExplorer agent is no longer available.
- All projects now use the modified browser option.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.100.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Selecting both options "Start in new web browser" and
"Visit each page only once" sometimes causes an error.
- Broken HTML with tags containing quotes causes on error
in the Visual Web Ripper editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.99.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Links with an onClick event and an anchor reference
confuses the software and may not work correctly.
- It is difficult to change the internal database if the
old internal database no longer exists.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.99.0
--------------------------------------------------------- AJAX actions are now named JavaScript actions and can
be one of 3 different types. Asynchronous JavaScript
actions work like AJAX actions in the previous version.
Synchronous JavaScript actions only waits for the action
event to fire and processing then continues immediately.

AJAX JavaScript actions intercept server requests made

with XMLHttpRequest and wait for the server requests to
complete before processing continues.
- New advanced option "Wait for AJAX after page load"
can be used to wait for server requests made with
XMLHttpRequest after a full page load.
CHANGES IN RELEASE 2.99.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Input form fields without a type attribute are no
longer submitted in WebCrawler mode unless specified as
FormField elements.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.99.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Some JavaScript events causes an error and are not
fired correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Setting the option "Duplicate check" on FormField, File
or Image content elements causes an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The software does not look for wait elements on all
frames when the selected frame is not found.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Links with the tag attribute href="#" are processed
incorrectly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.6
--------------------------------------------------------- "Dynamic list of links" pagination doesn't work
properly when teh pagination uses INPUT elements.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Delayed redirects cause pages to load incorrcetly in
the editor.
- The button "Save List Values to File" saves all drop
down values to a CSV file, but it does not escape quote
characters, and can therefore generate an invalid CSV
file.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The editor does not always correctly load a new page if
a template is configured to open a page in a
new browser tab.
- Visual Web Ripper does not always search all frames if
a specified frame is not found.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.3
---------------------------------------------------------

- Framesets are not loaded correctly.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Some web forms are submitted incorrcetly in WebCrawler
mode.
- RepeatParent templates cannot be edited.
- The "Custom user agent" option does not work correctly
in version 2 agents
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Error processing links without a href attribute.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.98.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New selection styles. These styles don't interfer with
page HTML and should result in a slightly improved
project design experience.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.98.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may hang when opening the context
menu on a drop down box with a large number of values.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.11
--------------------------------------------------------- Some dynamically created frames may cause
Visual Web Ripper to process the same page more than
once.
- Unable to specify that Visual Web Ripper should click
No/Cancel on dialogs when running a project. Yes/Ok is
always clicked, which is not always appropriate.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Too much log informaiton written to log be default.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper emulates a click on No/Cancel instead
of Yes/OK when supressing a dialog.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Some dynamically created frames may cause
Visual Web Ripper to process the same page more than
once.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Some websites using frames may cause an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Content within skipped Page Area templates are not
saved correctly.

- Incorrect warning that captcha images are not found.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.5
--------------------------------------------------------- JavaScript is not injected correctly into all websites
causing some actions to fail.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Some web browser dialog boxes are being displayed at
run-time.
- Unable to click on the custom context menu in some
situations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Incorrect behavior of the custom context menu in some
situations.
- Incorrect selections when selecting inside a Page Area
using the Span option
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Setting the option "AddColumnMethod" to "SingleColumn"
causes an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The custom web browser context menu does not work
correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.97.0
--------------------------------------------------------- All click events are now blocked, unless the toolbar
button "Navigate in Browser" is pressed.
- New event monitor screen.
- New property "ExportDataConfiguration" available in
WrProjectInitializeArguments. This property is applicable
to version 2 agents only
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.97.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to select content on sub-frames.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.96.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Event blocking does not work correctly on all websites,
so it has been temporarily disabled.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.96.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Some JavaScript is injected incorrectly into the editor
web browser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.96.1

--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser in the editor sometimes throws errors.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.96.0
--------------------------------------------------------- All click events are now blocked, unless the toolbar
button "Navigate in Browser" is pressed.
- The embedded MySql.Data assembly is now available in
scripting.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.96.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Security dialogs are sometimes displayed while a
project is run.
- Downloading a document on form submit fails if the
form submit loads a page that redirects to the document.
- Alert messages are not displayed in design mode.
- Unable to set the "Max. retries" option on Start URLs.
- The "Retry delay" option is not used properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.95.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Default redirect method is not set to RedirectRequest
when a Link template is using the Click event.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.95.3
--------------------------------------------------------- New condition option "Fail when element missing".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.95.3
--------------------------------------------------------- JavaScript links may not always be executed correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.95.2
--------------------------------------------------------- An error occurs when running a project with a Back
template that contains sub-templates. The error only
occurs when using version 2 agents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.95.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The project editor is unable to load HTML files
directly from the file system.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.95.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Frames are now selected automatically, and the Frames
drop down box in the toolbar is no longer available.
- The "Search all frames" option has been removed. All
frames will automatically be searched if the selected
frame does not exist.
- The Click event is now blocked in the editor when
clicking on elements in the web browser. A double-click

will fire the Click event.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.95.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Error using the toolbar button "Select outside page
area"
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.94.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The FormField option "Save field value" does not work.
- The Scheduler sometimes create hidden Windows tasks.
- Unable to cancel a project using the WebCrawler agent
if the project is submiting web forms.
- The template save method "AddColumnsInParentTable" does
not always work if the template has sub-templates
NEW IN RELEASE 2.94.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The template option "Start new web browser" can now be
used on FormSubmit templates when using version 2 agents.
The option also now works better on Link templates.
- New template option "Redirect method" specifies how a
page load should be redirected to a new web browser tab.
This option is only available for version 2 agents and
replaces the option "Click to get new URL".
- A small adjustment to selection optimization within
page areas should result in better selections in some
scenarious.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.93.0
--------------------------------------------------------- General performance optimizations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.92.4
--------------------------------------------------------- An error occurs during export when using MySQL as
internal database.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.92.3
--------------------------------------------------------- An error "Column parent_out_row_id does not exist" may
occur when checking for duplicates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.92.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler agent is able to submit some forms that
generate errors in teh project editor.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.92.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The shared script database now supports a new method
SetParameterBinaryValue.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.92.0
---------------------------------------------------------

- Oracle export is now supported.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.91.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Links executing JavaScript are not always navigated
correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.91.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebBrowser agent can now be configured to only
restart the web browser thread instead of the entire
process when a website leaks memory. This is done by
setting the project option "Restart entire process" to
false. This option should only be used when using IE9.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.90.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Search all frames" does not work for
wait content and in the project editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.90.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebBrowser agent sometimes load pages incorrectly
if JavaScript is used to immediately redirect to another
page.
- Image elements used for CAPTCHA should not be
downloaded as normal image content, since it may
interfere with CAPTCHA processing.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.90.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Frame documents may get stuck in Inteactivae mode.
- An error occurs when returning from an optional
FormSubmit template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.90.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Compressed pages are not always loaded correctly by the
WebCrawler agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.90.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler agent does not set the referrer
correctly.
- The WebCrawler agent cannot load pages from web servers
that only deliver compressed pages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.90.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Form submit with a direct URL does not work correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.90.0
--------------------------------------------------------- An external program can now be used to convert a
document into HTML and then be processed like any other
web page.

- Serial key is now shown on Trial startup screen.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.90.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebBrowser agent is sometimes unable to load a page
if the page redirects.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.47
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler agent does not always recognise end of
pagination when it should.
- Unable to rename content element if the only change
letter case.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.46
--------------------------------------------------------- Duplicate check on export always checks against all
content elements, instead of only the elements marked for
duplicate check.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.45
--------------------------------------------------------- Very long project names or template names may cause on
error when exporting to MySQL.
- XPath functions are not recognised as valid functions.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.44
--------------------------------------------------------- HTML tags with name spaces are processed incorrectly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.43
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler agent only submits one set of input
values when processing web forms.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.42
--------------------------------------------------------- File content elements are not saved in the internal
database if the option "Save content" is reset.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.41
--------------------------------------------------------- Error selecting an element within a PageArea if the
element is part of the PageArea itself.
- Error extracting data if duplicate check is set on an
alternative content element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.40
--------------------------------------------------------- Database command timeout is too short.
- Templates may get assigned an invalid XPath when a
project is upgraded.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.39
--------------------------------------------------------- Automatic DECAPTCHER may fail after a large number of

CAPTCHA pages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.38
--------------------------------------------------------- char(160) is not recognised as a white space when using
the WebCrawler agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.37
--------------------------------------------------------- The project editor fails to load a page in WebCrawler
mode if the page has no body tag.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.36
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler agent fails to load a page if the page
specifies invalid character encoding information.
- The project editor fails to load a page in WebCrawler
mode if the page has no body tag.
- The Count option for FormField content is not working
properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.35
--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser does not suppress system messages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.34
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler agent may sometimes fail to parse
comments on a HTML page causing the page load to fail.
- Error exporting data when using MySQL as internal
database.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.33
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Run Project" window sometimes resizes incorrectly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.32
--------------------------------------------------------- The project editor runs projects inside the editor
instead of using an agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.31
--------------------------------------------------------- Page Transformation throws an error when processing an
empty HTML element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.30
--------------------------------------------------------- The MySQL character encoding option is not available
when configuring the shared script database.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.29
--------------------------------------------------------- Screenshots are not exported corrcetly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.28
---------------------------------------------------------

- CAPTCHA processing may fail on some conputers when

using version 1 agents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.27
--------------------------------------------------------- Error editing and then saving a PageNavigation
template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.26
--------------------------------------------------------- CAPTCHA processing may fail on some conputers.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.25
--------------------------------------------------------- Data export may fail if a non-list template is added
after a list template.
- An exception may occur during data extraction if a
copied template has been configued to cancel an entire
list on duplicate when debug is turned on.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.24
--------------------------------------------------------- Templates that check for duplicates and have been
copied may cancel the entire project instead of the
current template.
- JavaScript that call windows.External may fail and
prevent websites from loading correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.23
--------------------------------------------------------- Data is exported when an agent restarts, but should
only get exported when the agent completes or is stopped.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.22
--------------------------------------------------------- Some Condition options cannot be changed when using
version 2 agents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.21
--------------------------------------------------------- Some JavaScript don't work correctly without a sized
browser Window, and a sized Window is not instantiated
when running an invisible WebBrowser agent. A new project
option "Use sized Window" is now available to solve this
problem.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.20
--------------------------------------------------------- Automatic CAPTCHA decoding may fail if the Internet
cache is full.
- The RunProject.exe utility does not return an exit
code.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.19
--------------------------------------------------------- Regex tramsformation does not work correctly in
version 2 agents when using extracted data in the regex.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.18

--------------------------------------------------------- The Ok and Cancel buttons may not be vissible on the
Export Data screen on some computer configurations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.17
--------------------------------------------------------- The File name transformation button is not visible for
Image and File content.
- The option "Redirect on meta refresh" does not always
work correctly.
- Invalid file names are sometimes generated for images
and files.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.89.16
--------------------------------------------------------- File download on form submit now works with the
WebBrowser agent.
- File name transformation now works in screen shots.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.16
--------------------------------------------------------- Alternative content elements for images and files don't
work properly.
- The template list count option does not work properly
in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.15
--------------------------------------------------------- CAPTCHA functionality does not work with version 2
agents.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.89.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Basic Windows authentication is now supported.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.13
--------------------------------------------------------- Email links are extracted incorrectly.
- "Next page" pagination does not stop in WebCrawler mode
when reaching an invalid next page link.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Email links are not displayed correctly in the Capture
window.
- The "Default data extractor" drop down box on the
"Run Project" screen does not work correctly.
- Minor updates to the proxy configuration screen.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.11
---------------------------------------------------------

- Visual Web Ripper follows popup URLs even when it's a

blank URL.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Text may disappear from buttons on some Windows
installations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Error navigating in the designer in Web Crawler mode
when the Web Crawler is set to Fast or
BackwardCompatibility.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The default IE context menu is sometimes shown in
design mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Web pages are not always loaded correctly with the
Web Crawler agent in WebBrowsercompatibility mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Error excluding a FormSubmit template from export data.
- An empty row is generated if no data is extracted for a
start URL.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may stop executing JavaScript on a
website if a JavaScript error occurs on the website.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The Web Browser agent may not always load a web page
correctly if the previous page contains multiple frames
and the project has been configured not to wait for all
frames.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Projects don't run correctly in Web Browser mode when
the browser is not visible.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.2
--------------------------------------------------------- A script error window is sometimes shown while running
a project.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.1
--------------------------------------------------------- An event doesn't fire correctly if JQuery is used on a
website, but the event is not a JQeury event.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.89.0
---------------------------------------------------------

- New Web Crawler parser "WebBrowserCompatibility". This

parser is now the default Web Crawler parser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.89.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The software may freeze on some websites when using a
text filter.
- Pagination does not always work correctly after a
FormSubmit template when using the WebCrawler agent.
- Default form field values are not always selected
correctly when submitting forms using the WebCrawler
agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.88.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The software throws an error when a sub-frame cannot be
loaded. The software should instead ignore such errors
similar to normal IE behaviour.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.88.0
--------------------------------------------------------- SQL Server Compact is no longer available as internal
database.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.88.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The software may in rare cases consume too much memory
when exporting data, causing an "Out of memory" error.
- Exporting the last segment of an empty table causes an
error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.9
--------------------------------------------------------- The startup webpage keeps loading when starting a new
project.
- The Video link on the startup webpage does not work.
- Files and images are stored in BLOB fields when
exporting data to MySQL, and BLOB fields can only store
very small files.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The template option "Save method" can now be set to
MainTable, which will add new data rows to the main
project table.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The MySQL.NET adapter included with Visual Web Ripper
does not work properly with the latest version of MySQL.
- An error may occur when using the filter option on
DT/DL HTML tags.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.6

--------------------------------------------------------- Page timeout is set too low and many pages cannot load
in the designer.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Multiple templates with the same name may be added to a
project when copying templates. This will cause errors
when running the project, since all templates must have
unique names.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser loses it's session causing most logins
to fail.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Resizing of the main editor window does not work as
intended.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The project editor does not render properly if Windows
font size is set to more than 100%.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The default IE context menu is displayed in the editor
and hides the custom context menu.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.87.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Proxy servers with user authentication now works in the
Web Browser agent
- Websites using an invalid SSL certificate can now be
loaded in the web browser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.87.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Some times the web browser fails to load a new page and
uses the previous page instead.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Error when using the option "Extract text" on optional
link templates.
- Error loading some pages where sub-frames fail to load.
- Minor user interface corrections.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The user interface does not render correctly on all
computers.
- Long project names may cause errors when running a
project.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.7

--------------------------------------------------------- The user interface does not render correctly on all
computers.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may hang when processing a FormSubmit
template in WebCrawler mode with mutiple threads.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Project fails to run after having been renamed directly
in the file system.
- Table denormalization sometimes causes an error.
- Duplicate check on export data fails in some rare
scenarios.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Error running a project where FormField content has
been set to a specific FormSubmit template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to set FixedValue content.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Exclude template" does not work properly
with version 2 agents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Error when opening the web browser emulation screen.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New template option "Duplicate check at end" can be
used to choose if duplicate check should be made before
or after sub-templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.86.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Error checking for duplicates when using MySQL as
internal database.
- Status progress message is incorrect when using the
XPath SPAN method for a PageArea template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.9
--------------------------------------------------------- If a FormSubmit template fails a single time, all
submits are cancelled.
- Some errors are not correctly logged as errors.

- The template option "Click to get URL" does not work

correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The "span" XPath method does not always work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Error adding a content element without a selection.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Project Data" tab is missing in Project Options.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Some downloaded file paths are not added to the
extracted data in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Form input scripts are not always executed correctly
in design mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The form field HTML element is null in Form Input
scripts.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Setting the "Default data extractor" option in project
options does not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Unpredictable errors in the Visual Web Ripper editor
when an enabled input data source is inaccessible.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.85.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Web browser emulation version is now set to Internet
Explorer 9 on software install.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.85.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Some events don't fire properly, especially when using
IE9 emulation.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.84.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Browser emulation is set for the currnet user instead
of the entire machine.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.84.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Web browser emulation version is no longer set during
software install, but can be set manually after the
software has been installed.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.11

--------------------------------------------------------- Alternative Image content selections cause errors.
- The project editor does not use proxies from the
project proxy list.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.10
--------------------------------------------------------- A missing form field causes a failure even when the
form field is optional.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.9
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Retry errors on resume" does not work.
- A missing form field does not generate an error entry.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to set the "Page load delay" options properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.7
--------------------------------------------------------- When using the option "Restart web browser", the web
browser is not visible after a restart.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Error "Object not set to an instance of an object" when
processing an image tag without a source property.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The debug window makes a sound while a project is
running.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.4
--------------------------------------------------------- An error message is not always shown in the debug
window when failing to download a file.
- Vertial scroll bar does not work properly in the debug
window.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.83.3
--------------------------------------------------------- New template options "Max. retries" and "Delay between
retries" can be used to retry page loads.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Famesets are not loaded correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Error using duplicate checks on export data.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.83.0

--------------------------------------------------------- Single selection templates sometimes appear to be list

templates in the project designer.
- Multiple single selection templates can cause data
export to fail.
- Error using SQL Server as internal database.
- "Out of memory" error when exporting large amount of
data to XML.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Expanding and limiting a list does not always work.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Loading input files can be very slow.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.6
--------------------------------------------------------- HTML tags containing Unicode properties are not parsed
correctly by the fast web crawler parser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Version 2 agents don't always process Redirect and
Group templates correctly.
- Empty rows are sometimes added to data export when
using Version 2 agents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The design row index on an input data source only works
on project input data sources.
- An error "Object reference not set to an instance of an
object" may occur when loading a webpage.
- Settings on the "Run Project" screen are not saved
properly.
- Project connection options are not saved correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The debug window makes a sound while running a project.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Some links may not work correctly in WebCrawler mode if
a website redirects links.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Error running projects in WebCrawler mode.
- Error activating the software on new computers.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.82.0

--------------------------------------------------------- The software sometimes crash on older versions of
Windows in particular Windows 2003.
- Links on the Visual web Ripper homepage don't work
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.81.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Webpages opening in new windows are not always cought.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.81.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Memory leak in 2.81.0.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.81.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Webpages opening in new windows are not always cought.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.80.2
--------------------------------------------------------- JavaScript is not injected correctly when running
projects from the commandline or the scheduler.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.80.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Clicking the Help button on the project process window
causes an error.
- The resume button on the project process window does
not turn gray when a project has completed.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.80.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now uses partial page load by
default.
- Some options that had little or no effect on page
processing have been removed.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.80.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Project files are saved without the .rip extension.
- Clicking the "Start new project" toolbar button causes
an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.79.2
--------------------------------------------------------- No wait message is displayed while waiting for data
extrator agent to start.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.79.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may become unstable and crash on some
websites.
- Visual Web Ripper is set to modify browser behavior by
default, which causes memory leaks on older versions of

Windows.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.79.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Exporting data can take a long time when using a SQLite
internal database.
- Some instability issues have been fixed.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.78.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Incorrect online updater version included with the full
installer package.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.78.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Error when duplicate check is set on content in
non-list templates.
- Error "Unexpected error: Index was out of range...".
- Error viewing extracted data when running a project
using the Agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.78.7
--------------------------------------------------------- An error "Error creating internal database" may occur
when using a FormSubmit template without associated
FormField content.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.78.7
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Redirect to modal dialogs" allows
the web browser to redirect to the content of a modal
dialog window.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.78.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Exported CSV files are invalid when exporting into
multiple files.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.78.5
--------------------------------------------------------- New Advanced option "Action JavaScript" can be used to
execute custom JavaScript instead of firing events when
performing an action.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.78.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Setting data values using the API may cause an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.78.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The Fast HTML parser does not recognise all character
encodings.
- Dynamic link PageNavigation templates don't always work
proeprly with the WebCrawler agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.78.2

--------------------------------------------------------- C# and VB.NET scripts always reference System.Web.dll

which is not part of the .NET4 Client Profile, and
therefore cause a script compile error if the full
version of .NET4 is not installed.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.78.1
--------------------------------------------------------- New export targets "Excel 2003" and "Excel 2007/2010".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.78.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The fast WebCrawler HTML parser does not always handle
script tags correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.78.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now uses .NET v4.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.15
--------------------------------------------------------- PageNavigation templates are not always processed.
- Internal data is not always converted to external data
correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Condition scripts don't work properly on templates.
- Unable to access link template text in scripts.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.13
--------------------------------------------------------- Proxy server configuration is set system wide when
running a project using the WebBrowser agent.
- Visual Web Ripper may sometimes try to write data to
invalid database tables instead of recreating the tables.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Using a reserved name as content name causes an error
at runtime instead of design time.
- The project option
"Save extracted images and documents to disk" does not
work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.11
--------------------------------------------------------- An error occurs when an image element is defined in a
template, but not found on the webpage.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Some JavaScript events are not fired correctly when the
WebBrowser runs in IE9 emulation mode. Visual Web Ripper
now uses IE8 emulation mode instead. A full reinstall is
required for this change to take effect.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.9

--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to set export file paths.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Error when viewing project error data.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Error exporting data to MySQL databases.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Error exporting data to XML.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.5
--------------------------------------------------------- PageNavigation templates on a dynamic list of links
don't work with version 2 agents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Error "Object not set to an instance of a reference"
may occur in some rare situations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Error exporting data in some situations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Error exporting data to CSV.
- Error refreshing data on the Data Inspector screen when
running a project using teh "Run Agent" toolbar button.
- The file extension is added twice to downloaded files.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.77.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Error exporting data to a database.
- Error refreshing data on the Data Inspector screen.
- Incorrect help file references.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.77.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New data extractor agents. The old agents are still
included for backward compatibillity. Please see the help
file for more information about the new data extractor
agents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.76.5
--------------------------------------------------------- A corrupt license file does not result in a prompt for
a new serial key.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.76.4

--------------------------------------------------------- Warning 1010 when running a project using the Agent.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.76.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper connects to the wrong licensing
server.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.76.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper always shows the version is
up-to-date.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.76.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Error entering empty values for Input Parameters.
- The software keeps asking for a new serial key every
time some computers is rebooted.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.76.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now uses the Windows Task Scheduler
instead of a build-in scheduler. A complete reinstall is
required for this version.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.76.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not display a correct error
message when trying to update a version of
Visual Web Ripper that cannot be updated to the latest
version.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.75.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now runs in IE9 rendering mode if
IE9 is installed (requires complete reinstall of
Visual Web Ripper).
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.75.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Error "Invalid license information" when running a
project in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.75.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Missing file makes it impossible to activate the
software.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.75.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New licensing system.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.75.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Error entering empty values for Input Parameters.
- The Scheduler screen cannot be resized causing some
issues on low resolution screens.

- Grid buttons are missing text on some computers.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.24
--------------------------------------------------------- The trial version stops with warning 1010 when running
projects.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.23
--------------------------------------------------------- The trial startup screen may block access to the
software if using a very low resolution.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.22
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Save in parent table" option applies only to Excel
and CSV output, but is applied to all output formats.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.21
--------------------------------------------------------- Starting two projects at the exact same time may cause
one project to fail because of a licensing error.
- The XPath function "text()" is not implemented.
- Checking for existence of an attribute in XPath does
not work.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.20
--------------------------------------------------------- FixedValue content elements may cause an error in the
Visual Web Ripper editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.19
--------------------------------------------------------- Webpages that incorrectly starts with two HTML tags
are processed incorrcetly by the HTML parser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.18
--------------------------------------------------------- NextPage navigation does not resume correctly the
second time a project is resumed.
- JavaScript may cause the Web Browser to hang, and the
Stop button will then be unable to stop a project. A new
Terminate button will force a project to stop even when
the Web Browser hangs.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.17
--------------------------------------------------------- Internal data is not saved when running a project to
the end.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.16
--------------------------------------------------------- Internal data is not saved when running a project to
the end.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.15
---------------------------------------------------------

- Proxy servers in WebBrowser mode does not take effect

immediately.
- When testing proxy servers in Project Options, the
status always shows green, even when a proxy server is
inaccessible.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Resuming a project that saves data to a database will
result in a "Duplicate key" error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.13
--------------------------------------------------------- When running a project using the Agent, the "Run Time"
label is not positioned correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper removes frames when it should only
remove Flash in some situations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.11
--------------------------------------------------------- When running a project using the Agent, the "Run Time"
label is not positioned correctly.
- The "Custom" button is not visible on the
"Destination Data Source" screen.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Error exporting data to a database if the project
contains a RepeatParent template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Some webpages cannot load in WebCrawler mode because
they contain text termination characters.
- It is not possible to open a RepeatParent template with
a specific selected link.
- RepeatParent templates don't work properly in
WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The Stop button does not work correctly in WebBrowser
mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Rendering issues on the Action options tab.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Text is missing on some buttons in the project editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.5

--------------------------------------------------------- The project editor may crash in WebCrawler mode when

navigating to a URL that doesn't exist.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to extract data in InternetExplorer mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.3
--------------------------------------------------------- GUI issues in the Visual Web Ripper project editor,
especially when using a default Windows font size larger
than 100%.
- Custom scripts may throw an error when using
"Multi-threaded downloads" in WebBrowser mode.
- CSV string data is not encoded correctly.
- Error "Parameter value is invalid" when using the
Visual Web Ripper project editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler HTML parser sometimes parses tags
incorrectly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.1
--------------------------------------------------------- File missing in online update package.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.74.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New project property CustomUserAgent can be used to
set the user agent in WebBrowser mode.
- New content capture type "Flash".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.74.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Downloaded flash files have an incorrect extension.
- Unable to select Flash objects because they are being
removed in design mode.
- Visual Web Ripper will fail to load a website if it
needs to download a certificate beofore it can access
the website.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.73.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The Visual Web Ripper application and APIs no longer
target .NET version v4, but is back to target .NET v2
NEW IN RELEASE 2.72.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The Visual Web Ripper application and all APIs are now
using .NET version 4. Applications using the Visual Web
Ripper API must target .NET version 4.

- All selection XPaths are now relative to the page HTML

element instead of the BODY element. This allows
selection of elements above the BODY element, such as
the HEAD element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.72.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The correct file extension is not always used when
downloading files.
- PageAttribute elements always work on the main web frame
and not the selected web frame.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.71.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The element count for Page Area selections are often
wrong.
- An input data source with zero columns causes an error
when opening the project options screen.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.71.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The Referer header is not set correctly when
downloading files and images. This causes some downloads
to fail.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.71.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Two new page transformations. ReplaceHTML and
InsertHTML can be used to easily replace or insert HTML
into a web page.
- HTML syntax coloring.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.71.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Saving a content element after a page transformation
sometimes clears the selection XPath of the content
element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.13
--------------------------------------------------------- The XPath Span method does not work on PageArea
templates that are not defined as a list.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Incorrect XPath behaviour in WebBcroser mode when
using // inside a predicate.
- Error setting the option "Max capture text length".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.11
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may not continue extraction correctly
when using the Group FormField option.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.10
---------------------------------------------------------

- Web page frames are not available in the project editor.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Help windows now open up as top most Windows.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Opening help or support menus sometimes causes an
error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Project upgrade error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebBrowserCompatibility parser is unstable and has
been disabled.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebBrowserCompatibility parser crashes.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Projects running in WebCrawler mode are now upgraded
to use the BackwardCompability parser by default.
- The WebBrowserCompatibility and Fast parsers now
removes scripts by default.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.70.3
--------------------------------------------------------- New content type "Screen" can be used to take a
screenshot of a specific element on webpage.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Extracted text is not HTML decoded in fast WebCrawler
mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.70.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler does not always read web pages
correctly.
- The WebCrawler parsers accept invalid attribute names.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.70.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler can now run in three different modes.
WebBrowserCompatibility, Fast or BackwardCompatibility.
- The project editor now runs smoother in WebCrawler
mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.16
--------------------------------------------------------- The project editor cuts off long captured text used as

script input.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.15
--------------------------------------------------------- FixedValue content elements don't accept data values
from input data sources associated with specific templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Web browsers with modified behaviour don't run in a
single Window when using the option "View Browser".
NEW IN RELEASE 2.69.13
--------------------------------------------------------- All web browsers now run in a single Window when using
the option "View Browser".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.13
--------------------------------------------------------- Redirect templates don't work correctly with lookup
data sources.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.12
--------------------------------------------------------- An alternative Image content element doesn't work if
the main content element uses Content Transformation.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.69.11
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Synch with database keys".
- The Visual Web Ripper support website is now accessible
from within Visual Web Ripper.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.10
--------------------------------------------------------- An error may occur when exporting data to a database
when the project has a Link template that uses the option
"Extract text" and also contains a PageNavigation template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Running a project with mutiple start URLs may sometimes
cause an error when also exporting data periodically.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.69.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The input data source file path is now automatically
set to the default project folder when the specified file
path is not found and the file is found in the default
project folder.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The Start URL option "Feed URLs from input data source"
is always reset.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.69.7
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Exclude Start URL table".

NEW IN RELEASE 2.69.6

--------------------------------------------------------- The XPath SPAN methods now always stop when they reach
the following list element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The Start URL input data column drop down is always
disabled.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler does not correctly recognise XML
documents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Link transformation doesn't work for PageNavigation
templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Cache timer" project option does not work when
set to more than 1 hour.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The current input data row is not parsed to scripts.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.1
--------------------------------------------------------- All scripts throw an error if an input data source is
not enabled.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.69.0
--------------------------------------------------------- An Input Data Source can now be defined for Group
templates.
- An Input Data Source defined for a Group or Form
template is now available in all subtemplates.
API CHANGES IN RELEASE 2.69.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The property WrProject.DataConfiguration.InputDataSource
has been moved to WrProject.Template.InputDataSource.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.69.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The template option "Exclude template" has no effect
on XMl output.
- The API may throw an error similar to "Unable to find
assembly..."
- Some JavaScript causes unexpected behaviour in
WebCralwer mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.19

--------------------------------------------------------- The online updater downloads the third party

decaptcher.dll file which is recognised as an unwanted
file by some virus scanners. The file should only be
available as a separate optional download. This issue was
not fixed properly in v2.68.14 as announced.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.18
--------------------------------------------------------- The default Blocked URL has been removed, since it
causes problems for some websites.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.17
--------------------------------------------------------- The content of drop down boxes with many entries are
not displayed correctly in the project editor.
- Page loads are displayed incorrectly when resuming a
project.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.16
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper sometimes incorrectly reports an
error when processing a Back template inside an optional
template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.15
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may crash while navigating in the
project editor.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.68.14
--------------------------------------------------------- New methods to load a CSV file in the ScriptUtils
module.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.14
--------------------------------------------------------- The online updater downloads the third party
decaptcher.dll file which is recognised as an unwanted
file by some virus scanners. The file should only be
available as a separate download.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.68.13
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Blocked URLs" can be used to
prevent Visual Web Ripper from navigating specific URLs,
including iframe URLs.
- It is now always possible to Continue data extraction
if a data extract exists, even when Visual Web Ripper has
marked the data extract as complete. If the data extract
is marked as complete, the icon on the Continue button
will be gray.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.12
--------------------------------------------------------- When using the option "Export data & clear memory"
Visual Web Ripper still keeps too much data in memory.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.11

--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may crash while removing Flash
objects from some websites.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Pressing the pause button in WebCrawler mode causes an
error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.9
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler hangs after running for a long time.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Running a project in the Agent causes the Agent to
crash at startup.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The project editor thows an error "Invalid URL..." when
entering the URL address box.
- If the start URL fails to load, Visual Web Ripper will
keep trying to load the URL in an infinite loop.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The project editor may fail to navigate to a new web
page.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Restart project" option has been replaced with a
"Resume" button.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The agent is unable to run a project that is not
located in the default project folder.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.3
--------------------------------------------------------- An error "Value must be within minimum and maximum" may
occur for some projects when run from the project editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Extracted data in not saved correctly in WebCrawler
mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.1
--------------------------------------------------------- A project does not restart when it's unable to continue
with the existing data extract, but instead displays a
somewhat cryptic error message.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.68.0
---------------------------------------------------------

- Data extraction can now continue from where it was last

stopped. The Continue option only works in WebBrowser
mode.
- A data extraction project can now Automatically restart
the data extraction agent in WebBrowser mode. This will
free leaked memory in cases where a website leaks memory
in Internet Explorer.
- A data extraction project can now save data with
specified intervals without having to export the data.
The intervals are set using the "Data row cache" option.
This option no longer forces data to be exported unless
the option "Export data & clear memory" is set. The
intervals can also be set as time intervals.
- The data extraction progress bar is now an indication
of the actual progress instead of an estimate based on
previous data extractions.
- Visual Web Ripper now makes a better attempt at removing
Flash objects in WebBrowser mode. Flash objects can
sometimes cause Internet Explorer to crash if they are
not removed during processing.
- The project log path can not be set using the API.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.68.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Clean HTML" option removes JavaScript tags, but
leaves encoded JavaScript in the extract content.
- The "Clean HTML" option removes DL, DT and DD tags.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.67.13
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler collector fails when page encoding is
specified in a certain way.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.67.12
--------------------------------------------------------- If a data extraction project fails or is stopped at a
certain moment, it can cause data output to get corrupted.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.67.11
--------------------------------------------------------- The 3rd party file decaptcher.dll has been removed
from the installer because some virus software
categorises the file as unwanted software.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.67.10
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Pause when elements missing" can be used
in web browser mode to pause processing if a template or
content element is not found.
- New toolbar button "Reset browser session" can be used
to reset a website session while designing a project.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.67.9

--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Save full local path" can be set to
false in order to only save the file name of downloaded
files.
- The "Line breaks" option has been improved.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.67.8
--------------------------------------------------------- New database helper methods in the script utility
class.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.67.7
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Allow auto redirect" for image and file
content.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.67.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not wait for elements when
moving back using a back template containing
sub-templates.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.67.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Input Transformation can now always be applied to
FormField elements even when they have the option
"Iterate list values".
- New template option "restart browser session" can be
used to emulate restarting the web browser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.67.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Sub-elements can be added to a Selection template in
the designer.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.67.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Selection filters are not always applied correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.67.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Error setting the "CAPTCHA element" option.
- No proper error message when using a CAPTCHA element
name that doesn't exist.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.67.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The selection XPath is now optimized in a slightly
different way, resulting in shorter XPaths.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.67.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Missing support file in the 2.67.0 release.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.67.0
--------------------------------------------------------- CAPTCHA scripts can be used to automatically call a

decaptcher service to decode CAPTCHA images.

- Scripts are now compiled with the /unsafe option
allowing unsafe code in scripts.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.66.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Error saving data to databases in some situation where
a PageNavigation templates is placed within a list
template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.66.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Some complex project data is not denormalized properly.
- Incorrect column names when processing a form in
WebCrawler mode.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.65.0
--------------------------------------------------------- A template name is now displayed with disabled text if
the template is disabled or the template is not saved to
output.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.65.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Wait for frame name" is not available for
templates.
- The "Random time delay" options don't work for standard
click actions.
- Wait elements dont't always work correctly when moving
back to a PageArea template.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.64.11
--------------------------------------------------------- The support key is now automatically suplied when
opening the manual from within Visual Web Ripper.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.64.10
--------------------------------------------------------- The LinkArea options "Start Index" and "Count" cannot
be set higher than 100.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.64.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Error saving data to a database when the project
contains form templates and data is not being
de-normalized.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.64.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Error saving data to a database when the project
contains form templates and data is not being
de-normalized.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.64.7
--------------------------------------------------------- New template option "Repeat first element" can be used

on list templates to repeat the first list element as

long as it exists.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.64.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The template option "Navigate back" is ignored when
moving back to a group template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.64.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler HTML parser is unable to parse some HTML
attributes properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.64.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not navigate back when returning
to a PageArea template in the designer.
- The option "AJAX in page areas" does not work for
FormSubmit templates.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.64.3
--------------------------------------------------------- New context menu "Copy XPath Node to Clipboard" in the
Tree View Browser.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.64.2
--------------------------------------------------------- New AJAX option "Reselect AJAX check element" can be
used to force Visual Web Ripper top reselect an AJAX
check element while waiting for an AJAX action to
complete. This is required if a check element selection
changes as a result of the AJAX action.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.64.1
--------------------------------------------------------- When getting or setting a column value in a row using
the API, Visual Web Ripper will automatically look for
the column in parent rows if the column name doesn't
exist in the current data row.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.64.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New template type "Group" can be used to group content
and templates.
- Templates are now processed in the order in which they
are listed in the Captured Elements window.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.64.0
--------------------------------------------------------- An error occurs when deleting the last template or
content element in the Captured Elements window.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.63.9
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Captured Elements" window now supports
drag-and-drop.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.9

--------------------------------------------------------- The "Captured Elements" window no longer scrolls to the

top when saving a content element.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler does not select the most appropriate
body tag when a HTMl document has multiple body tags.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.63.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Word-wrap is now available in the Capture editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Delay after action" does not work correctly
when using multiple events.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.6
--------------------------------------------------------- "Dynamic list of links" page navigation does not work
properly in WebCrawler mode.
- The condition action CancelDataTable does not work
correctly in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Using the "Row cache size" option can cause primary
key violations when saving data to a database.
- Using the "Row cache size" option may in rare cases
cause database tables to be re-created during processing.
- A project will fail to load if a custom output folder
has ben set to a drive that doesn't exist.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Buttonless submit" has been renamed to
"Auto submit", so it matches the name in the manual.
-When changing the output folders, the raw data file is
still being written to the default output folder.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.63.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Load frames" can now be set on individual
templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Link transformation is not applied to the start URL in
design mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Pure text pages, such as pages retrieved from JASON
requests, fail to load in WebCrawler mode.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.63.0

--------------------------------------------------------- A script can now be used as Input Data Source.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.63.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The template option "Click to get new URL" is now set
to false by default.
- The option "Form submit links" does not work in design
mode.
- The content capture of multiple elements are listed
incorrcetly when designing a project in WebCrawler mode.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.62.8
--------------------------------------------------------- New XPath attribute @root-node-position.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.62.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The OleDB connection string is not saved correctly when
configuring a shared database connection.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.62.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to change the condition fail action for content
elements.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.62.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Invalid URLs causes an error in WebBrowser mode.
In WebCrawler mode the current template will be cancelled.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.62.5
--------------------------------------------------------- New content option "All paragraphs".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.62.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Automatic software upgrade doesn't always work
properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.62.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may in rare circumstances insert
extracted values into the wrong columns in a database
table.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.62.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "AJAX before page load" is n ow available
for FormField content.
- Visual Web Ripper now waits for any full page loads to
complete after waiting for an AJAX callback.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.62.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Nested page area templates can cause errors in

WebBrowser mode.
- Page transformation does not work correctly if
Visual Web Ripper Navigates back to a PageArea template.
- Page transformation does not always work correctly in
WebCrawler mode.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.62.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Help buttons in Visual Web Ripper now links to the
online manual.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.62.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The error "Invalid license information" occurs when
running a project from the command-line or when using the
scheduler.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.19
--------------------------------------------------------- New FormField option "Check select values".
- New FormField option "Form values required".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.18
--------------------------------------------------------- Using a lookup data source for form elements does not
always work correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.17
--------------------------------------------------------- The HTML page attribute now always return the
unprocessed HTML in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.17
--------------------------------------------------------- The advanced option Windows block the view of script
editors.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.16
--------------------------------------------------------- A random time delay can now be inserted between all
page loads.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.16
--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser cancel button is not always active in
Visual Web Ripper.
- AJAX events sometime complete too early.
- Default template sort order is not always set correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.15
--------------------------------------------------------- Error denormalizing data output from some projects.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.14
---------------------------------------------------------

- The project owner settings can now be saved without

having to save the Scheduler settings.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Error denormalizing data output from some complex
projects.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.13
--------------------------------------------------------- The FormSubmit option Direct URL can now be a relative
URL.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.13
--------------------------------------------------------- The browser stop button is unavailable while loading
frame documents.
- Start and count options are not working on FormField
content for Direct URL forms.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.12
--------------------------------------------------------- The link template option "Extract text" will now
extract the alt text of an image if the link contains an
image instead of text.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Content names starting with the character # causes an
error when saving extracted data. The character # is now
no longer allowed in names.
- The AJAX option "No wait in design mode" has been
removed, since AJAX actions can now be cancelled by
clicking the browser stop button.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.11
--------------------------------------------------------- Output file encoding is set to Unicode by default, but
correct CSV encoding is ASCII. The option
"Output file encoding" is now obsolete, and CSV file
encoding should be set in the Destination Data Source
screen. The default encoding is ASCII.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.10
--------------------------------------------------------- New page transformation type "CustomOuterHtml" works on
the outer HTML of a selection instead of the inner HTML.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.10
--------------------------------------------------------- XML encoding information causes an error in WebCrawler
mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Form field events attached through JavaScript is
sometimes not fired by Visual Web Ripper.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.8

--------------------------------------------------------- Error submitting forms with multiple input values in
WebCrawler mode.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The current activation key is now displayed on the
About box.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.6
--------------------------------------------------------- XML output files are encoded using Windows Unicode
instead of UTF-8.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler option "Download file on submit" does
not work if the web request does not redirected to the
downloadable file after submit.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The Visual Web Ripper API is sometimes unable to find
the software installation folder when used in an external
application.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.3
--------------------------------------------------------- New toolbar button "View extracted data".
- Additonal log information about navigation errors in
WebBrowser mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The current project settings are not always used in
design mode.
- WebCrawler UserAgent header updated to IE8.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Using the option "Form field group" can cause an
infinite loop.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.61.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Form field group" can be used to group
radio buttons or check boxes together. Grouped form fields
will be iterated like values in a drop down box.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.61.0
--------------------------------------------------------- An error may occur when using the API to get empty
values from a data table.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.60.4
--------------------------------------------------------- File URLs are not saved in parent tables when setting

the option "Save in parent table".

NEW IN RELEASE 2.60.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The RemoveContent page transformation will now remove
the entire selected HTML element and not just the inner
content.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.60.2
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Allow unsafe header parsing" can be
reset to disallow incorrect response headers in WebCrawler
mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.60.2
--------------------------------------------------------- An incorrect XPath is generated when using the Span
feature on PageArea templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.60.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Recursive link templates don't work correctly in design
mode.
- Some minor GUI bug fixes.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.60.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New FormField option "Multiple input fields" and
"Multiple input fields reset value" can be used to iterate
through a list of radio or checkbox form fields without
the need of an Input Data Source. These options work only
for standard forms in WebBrowser mode.
- New option "Wait for page load during AJAX" can be
reset to tell Visual Web Ripper not to wait for a web
page to load completely during AJAX actions.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.59.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The project option "Remove Flash" has no affect.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.59.1
--------------------------------------------------------- New Page Transformation "RemoveContent" can be used to
easily remove unstable Flash from a web page.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.59.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The Span XPath method does not always work correctly.
- Cookies are not always set correctly in WebCrawler mode.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.58.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Load default cookie" can be used in
WebCrawler mode to load the default cookie for the start
URL. This option is set to true by default.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.58.0

--------------------------------------------------------- Saving extracted data to a OleDb data destination
sometimes cause an error.
- When saving extracted data to a database, empty tables
are not always being generated if a data table contains
no data.
- When saving extracted data to a database, the initial
truncating of database tables does not always work.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.57.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Error waiting for content elements in child PageArea
templates.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.57.6
--------------------------------------------------------- New template option "Parse WebCrawler HTML". This
option can be used to optimize processing in WebCrawler
mode if you only need access to the raw HTML.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.57.6
--------------------------------------------------------- WebCrawler mode does not spawn multiple threads if
single link templates are within PageArea list templates.
- When the start URLs are supplied by an Input Data
source, the URL from the current design index is not used
as start URL in the Visual Designer.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.57.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Error saving extracted data to an OleDB data source.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.57.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Some AJAX actions don't work properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.57.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Loading" panel keeps flashing when browsing in
navigation mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.57.2
---------------------------------------------------------

- The API method WrDataRow.GetColumnValue(string) always

return an empty string for some projects.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.57.1
--------------------------------------------------------- A large list of static start URLs can cause the user
interface to freeze.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.57.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Project input parameters can now be defined. Input
parameters can be used in all scripts.
- A custom project initialization script can be used to
set project properties before the project is run.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.56.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Some scripts using the depricated method
ContainsColumn(string, string) fail.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.56.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Some scripts fail because column names are now case
sensitive. Column names have now been made case
insensitive again.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.56.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Some scripts using the depricated method
AddColumn(string, string, string) fail.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.56.1
--------------------------------------------------------- When ordering data columns by name, any column count
part of the name is now ordered numerically.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.56.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Data columns are sometimes included in output when
they shoudn't be. This fix required changes to the
internal data structures, and existing extracted data may
become invalid after upgrading to this version.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.55.0

--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Wait is optional" now applies to all links
in a list unless the option "Optional wait applies only
to first link in a list" is set.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.54.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Data columns can now be saved in parent tables. The
save mode can be MultipleColumns or SingleColumn. If the
save mode is MultipleColumns, each data row in a table
will generate an extra column in the parent table. If the
save mode is SingleColumn, values in all data rows will
be concatenated and saved in one extra column in the
parent table.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.53.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Error writing extracted data to some OleDB providers.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.53.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The OleDB connector depends on schema information, but
not all OleDB providers support schema information.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.53.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Images with capital letters extensions are not
downloaded correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.53.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Visit each page once only" now works
slightly different for PageNavigation templates of type
"List of links". Visual Web Ripper will now look at the
inner text of a link element and only proceed if it has
not already followed a link with the same inner text.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.53.4
--------------------------------------------------------- A new session is not created for each start URL in
WebCrawler mode. This causes problems on a very few
websites.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.53.3
---------------------------------------------------------

- The template option "Insert empty rows" causes an

error when denormalizing output data.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.53.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Page transformations are not always applied correctly
in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.53.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Selection XPaths are constructed incorrectly causing
numerous issues.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.53.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Improvements to the way Visual Web Ripper injects
JavaScripts.
- New project option "Load Frames" can be reset to
prevent iframes from loading in WebBrowser mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.53.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Quotes are added to column names when writing data to
Oracle through OleDb.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.15
--------------------------------------------------------- Error processing next page area in a list after
skipping a link template in the page area.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Error selecting elements within a page area.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.13
--------------------------------------------------------- Error processing templates within a page area.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Error selecting content within a page area.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.52.11

--------------------------------------------------------- A charset can now be specified when using a MySql data
source.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.11
--------------------------------------------------------- Selection templates don't work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Local file URLs are not allowed as start URLs.
- New option "Transfer session to WebCrawler" can be reset
to start a new session when switching from WebBrowser to
WebCrawler mode.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.52.9
--------------------------------------------------------- New toolbar button "Select Outside Page Area" allows
selections outside the active page area. Content selected
outside the active page area will be repeated for each
page area in a list.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.9
--------------------------------------------------------- The row span option does not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Error editing elements with a non-existing selection.
- Error selecting the page area root element in a page
area template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The online updater does not work. A complete re-install
is required to fix this problem.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.52.6
--------------------------------------------------------- New XPath axis "root" can be used to reference the
current page area, or the document root if not operating

within a page area.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Table denormalization does not always work in
WebCrawler mode.
- The option "Use HTML as regex input" does not always
work correctly in design mode.
- The Cpature window shows elements within a page area
list in the wrong order.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.5
--------------------------------------------------------- When denormalizing table TH elements, additional TD
elements are inserted instead of TH elements.
- An error occurs when using a column header filter if
the header text contains quotes.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Work sheets are now added in the correct order when
saving output data to Excel.
- The filter option "Must contain this element" does not
always work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Select form fields do not behave correctly if all
values have been set specifically to empty string.
- Selecting HTML elements with attribute values containing
quotes can cause errors.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Normalizing specific tables causes all child tables to
also be normalized.
- Normalizing specific tables can cause errors if some
data rows don't have child data.
Help file update for the Redirect template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.52.1
---------------------------------------------------------

- The online updater is not signed with the Sequentum

code signing certificate.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.52.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Refresh after page load" refreshes a
web page completely after it has been loaded by the
web browser.
- A redirect template can now redirect to a list of URLs
read from a lookup data source.
- Visual Web Ripper is now signed with the Sequentum code
signing certificate.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.51.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Page loads and wait conditions cannot always be
cancelled when designing projects.
- The "Denormalize data" option does not always
denormalize data when it should.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.51.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Condition script options are not available in the
Advanced options tab for Content.
- Optional link template within page area templates don't
always work.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.51.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Text filters on text containing the character ' may not
work for all languages.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.51.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler collector can now load documents without
a body tag.
- The WebCrawler collector now recognises XML documents,
and does not apply XHTML rules to such documents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.51.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The Limit and Expand selection options don't always

work properly on manual list selections.

- Relative file URLs are not converted into absolute URLs
if they are constructed by content transformation.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.51.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Element" options tab is now named "Misc".
- The "More" options tab is now named "Advanced".
- The "Condition" options tab has been removed and
condition options are now only available in the "Advanced"
options tab.
- The "More" project options tab is now named "Advanced".
- The "Data" project options tab has been removed and
data options are now only available in the "Advanced"
options tab.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.51.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not support embedded images, and
an error sometimes occur when selecting an embedded image
in the designer.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.50.5
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Ignore page load status codes" can be
used to accommodate a few websites that use status code
in an unusual way.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.50.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler collector sometimes tries to access data
collected by threads that have not completed.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.50.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not transfer cookies correctly
from the WebBrowser collector to the WEbCrawler collector.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.50.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper cannot be activated on some computer
configurations.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.50.1

--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper fails to return to the form URL when
a form submit fails.
- Visual Web Ripper does not allow re-entering default
proxy configuration.
- Duplicate data is never removed from XML output.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.50.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The PageNavigation template option "Link Area" is now
called "List of links" and must select a list of links
and not a link area.
- The PageNavigation template option "Continuing Link Area"
is now called "Dynamic list of links" and must select a
list of links and not a link area.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.49.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The page load delay option does not work when a page
is loaded in a new browser.
- No parent templates are available after opening the
Move/Copy Content Window.
- An error "Object not set to an instance of an object"
may occur in the Mode/Copy template Window.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.49.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The start URL is set incorrectly in version 2.49.5.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.49.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper fails to load a web page at all when
any sub-frames fail to load.
- When navigating a website in the project designer in
navigation mode the start URL does not change.
- Some web sites block click events on some elements
making it impossible to click to select elements in the
project designer.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.49.4
---------------------------------------------------------

- Position and size of most designer Windows are now

retained between sessions.
- Data view screens are now floating Windows, so they
can stay open while modifying a project.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.49.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Web sites opening new browser Windows are not always
processed correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.49.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Continuing page navigation templates don't always work
when they should.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.49.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper sometimes navigates back from AJAX
templates when it shouldn't.
- Back templates containing sub-templates don't always
work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.49.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Transformation content elements appear in output data.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.49.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New content type "Transformation" can be used to
transform a web page before any other content elements
or templates are applied.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.48.3
--------------------------------------------------------- URLs with anchors sometimes confuses Visual Web Ripper
resulting in extra unnecessary page loads.
- Content and template names using the character "#" to
indicate an alternative selection don't cause an error
when the primary element does not exist.
- The visual designer does not indicate that a page is
loading while sub-frames are loading.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.48.2

--------------------------------------------------------- The Visual Web Ripper designer crashes after a while if
a selected sub-frame never loads completely.
- Flat format data is not saved correctly to databases.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.48.1
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Fixed file extension" can be used to set a
fixed file extension on downloaded images and files.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.48.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The processing status window does not indicate that a
page is loading when Visual Web Ripper navigates back to
a previous page.
- Visual Web Ripper may crash if an image cannot be saved
correctly to disk.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.48.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Data is now converted into a flat format before the
post-processing step, unless setting the post-processing
option "Process raw data".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.47.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Missing file in the update package.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.47.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser collector now downloads files in
separate threads by default, which can increase
performance significantly for some projects.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.47.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Strip invalid XML" is not always applied
to extracted text.
- Some links opening new windows are not handled
correctly.
- Some page load errors are not recognised by Visual Web
Ripper, which could result in missing data without any

errors.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.47.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The Text Filter context menu does not work well for
HTML definition lists.
- Text filter markings may change position depending on
which web page is open, which is confusing.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.47.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper navigates back in design mode when
the option "Navigate back" is reset.
- In design mode, content transformation is applied to
multiple elements when a single element is selected
within a page area list.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.47.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Proxy information is now written to the debug window.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.47.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Javascritps are not overridden in all required frames
after opening a page navigation template.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.47.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Improved performance when designing a project in
WebCrawler mode.
- Content elements selecting more than one web element
will now extract data from all elements concatenated.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.47.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The XPATH ancestor axis is not implemented.
- A delay occurs when editing a content element in some
projects targeting websites using frames.
- The project start URL does not change after switching
to navigation mode and then navigating to a specific page.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.46.3

--------------------------------------------------------- Error saving extracted data to a database after

renaming a project.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.46.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not ask for proxy login when
the software is being registered, and instead throws a
connection error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.46.1
--------------------------------------------------------- It is not possible to set a drop down design value if
the value has trailing white spaces.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.46.0
--------------------------------------------------------- RepeatParent template type. This template type can be
used to recursive hierarchies of categories on a website.
- Xpath transformation script type. This script can be
used to transform a selection xpath.
- "Navigate back" template option can be reset to prevent
Visual Web Ripper from navigating back to the previous
web page when moving to the parent template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.46.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Some page navigation templates don't work correctly in
WebCrawler mode.
- A bug in a 3rd party software causes Visual Web Ripper
to expire. This problem was not solved properly in
v2.45.15 and v2.45.16.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.16
--------------------------------------------------------- Link templates don't work properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.15
--------------------------------------------------------- The software cannot start. An error message saying that
SmartAssembly has expired occurs. This problem is casued
by a bug in SmartAssembly.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.14

--------------------------------------------------------- The toolbar button "Keep loading web page until manual
stop" does not always work.
- The toolbar button "Navigate in browser" does not always
work correctly.
- Frames that are added and removed dynamically on a
web page can cause errors in design mode.
- Some flash objects are not removed during page load
potentially causing the web browser to crash.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.13
--------------------------------------------------------- The HTML parser used by the WebCrawler collector ignores
line feeds instead of converting them into white spaces.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Missing dll in installer package causing upgrades from
very old versions to fail.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.11
--------------------------------------------------------- Missing MySql data connector dll in installer package.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not always suppress javascript
alerts.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.9
--------------------------------------------------------- An error "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: format"
occurs when running a project.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.45.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Link transformation can now be applied to start URLs.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper connot download a file if the file

URL redirects.
- Drop downs with only text options are not set correctly.
- Some websites with a very rare layout corrupts the
Visual Web Ripper GUI.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.45.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The last found page area is now carried through optional
templates.
- New template option "Click on link to get URL for new
browser" can be used to click on a link to get the URL
for a new browser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The correct frame is not set in the editor for content
elements.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Potential licensing issues.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.5
--------------------------------------------------------- An error occurs if the main table name is different
from the project name.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.45.4
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Remove Flash".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.3
--------------------------------------------------------- An error may occur when using template names that are
invalid database object names (this bug was not fixed
properly in 2.45.2).
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.2
--------------------------------------------------------- An error may occur when using template names that are
invalid database object names.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.1

--------------------------------------------------------- An error somtimes occur when editing a content or
template element.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.45.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Support for nested frame sets and nested iframes.
- XML output format has changed slightly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.45.0
--------------------------------------------------------- AJAX actions may not complete successfully.
- Links using "javascript:;" as dummy link don't fire
the onclick event correctly.
- A clicked element disappear when a selection returns
no elements, making it difficult to adjust a selection.
- Errro saving output in XML format.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.44.2
--------------------------------------------------------- <li> HTML tags don't convert properly into line breaks
when using the line break content option.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.44.1
--------------------------------------------------------- New content option "Download Without Session Info" can
be used to download files without sending session info to
the web server.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.44.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Internal data structures have changes to allow varying
number of data columns. Data extracted with previous
versions of Visual Web Ripper CANNOT be loaded with this
version of the software, so you need to re-extract all
data after upgrading to this version.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.43.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Some help buttons are positioned incorrectly.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.43.3

--------------------------------------------------------- Dialog buttons are sometimes positioned incorrectly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.43.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Projects can be set to expire at a specified date.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.43.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Help file updates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.43.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Project browser options are not available.
- AJAX actions sometimes cause Visual Web Ripper to crash.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.43.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Proxies configured in Visual Web Ripper now works in
WebBrowser and IE collector mode. However, proxy
authentication is not supported in WebBrowser and IE mode.
- New option to set the number of page loads before
switching to the next proxy.
- New project
a small delay
load delay is
automatically

option "Page
after a page
specified, a
added if the

load delay" can be used to add

is loaded. If no custom page
one second delay is
target website contains Flash.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.43.0

--------------------------------------------------------- Data output from projects containing alternative
content and templates is not always correct.
- It is difficult to design projects for websites that
are using a timer to partly refresh web pages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.42.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler collector can end up in an infinite loop
when processing page navigations if the target website
stops responding.
- Links on startup page don't work.

- Help file updates.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.42.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Potential licensing issue.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.42.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Internal data structures have been optimized to
reduce the memory usage required to hold cached data.
Data extracted with previous versions of Visual Web Ripper
CANNOT be loaded with this version of the software, so you
need to re-extract all data after upgrading to this
version.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.41.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Nested page area templates can cause Visual Web Ripper
to crash.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.41.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper always return a status message that
not all data was collected after running a project, even
when no error occured and all data was collected
successfully.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.41.3
--------------------------------------------------------- CSV output headers are always converted to upper casing.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.41.2
--------------------------------------------------------- CSV output files are named slightly incorrectly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.41.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Some performance optimization in the designer when
selecting long HTML fields.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.41.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New regex command line_breaks replaces some common

html tags with line breaks. This command must be called

before strip_html to work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.41.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Wait is optional" option does not work for
FormSubmit templates.
- Resetting the template option "Save template" has no
affect when flattening data.
- Converting existing data does not execute
post-processing scripts.
- The "Required template" option sometimes shows as
reset, even when it is actually set.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.40.5
--------------------------------------------------------- New template option "Exclude template" can be used to
exclude a single template from the data output.
For example, this can be used to exclude page navigation
tables from data output without having to "flatten data".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.40.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Make line breaks" option does not generate double
line breaks.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.40.4
--------------------------------------------------------- An error may occur when executing scripts
(error loading Microsoft.mshtml.dll).
- Unable to stop 2nd processing browser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.40.3
--------------------------------------------------------- A missing assembly causes an error on some systems.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.40.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The editor does not detect mouse events on some systems,
making it impossible to design projects.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.40.1
---------------------------------------------------------

- Opening a 2nd processing browser in InternetExplorer

mode causes Visual Web Ripper to hang (work extremely slow).
NEW IN RELEASE 2.40.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Many internal structural changes to set up the software
for future enhancements.
- The scheduling folder is now obsolete. Projects placed
in the scheduling folder will be ignored. Projects must
now be actively scheduled on a computer. Current scheduled
projects must be re-scheduled.
- The scheduler can now run projects with seconds intervals.
- Visual Web Ripper can now be used by multiple users on
the same computer. Each user must have a separate license.
- The API assemblies are simplified and only two assembly
references are usually required.
- New project option "Hide selection styles" hides all
Visual Web Ripper styles in the browser. Some Web sites
may function incorrectly when custom styles are applied
(this is very rare).
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.40.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper always replaces data in MySQL even
when the option "Add to existing data" is set to true.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.35.10
--------------------------------------------------------- The script database utility class throws an error for
MySql and OleDb.
- Unassigned selection templates interfere with new
selections.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.35.9
--------------------------------------------------------- New template option "Recursive" can be used on link
templates to open the same template recursively as long
as the template selection exists.
- A memory leak may occur in the browser control when
setting browser behaviour in project options. The memory
leak has not been fixed, but the browser behaviour options
are now turned off by default.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.35.8

--------------------------------------------------------- Help file updates.
- The "Delay after action" can now be set on the start
template in project options.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.35.7
--------------------------------------------------------- New XPATH attribute @tag-text will return the inner
text of a HTML element excluding the inner text of child
elements.
- Custom XPATH functions now get the current HTML element
in the function arguments.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.35.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The template option "New browser" does not work
properly in InternetExplorer mode.
- Javascript overrides are not injected into frame
documents.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.35.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Flattening data" option does not always work when
using alternative templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.35.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper cancels a form template if a
form field doesn't exist after a previous form field's
postback. Visual Web Ripper should instead continue with
the next input value combination.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.35.3
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Reduce memory usage" can be sued to
reduce memory usage by the WebBRowser collector.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.35.2
--------------------------------------------------------- New content option "Empty duplicate check" can be used
to specify if empty values are considered equal in a
duplicate check.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.35.2

--------------------------------------------------------- Form submits that open a new Window causes an error
in Visual Web Ripper.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.35.1
--------------------------------------------------------- New template/content option "Pause when missing". This
option causes Visual Web Ripper to pause if a required
element is missing when the processing browser is visible.
This allows manual interaction with the web browser
before continuing and can be used in scenarios such as
when a CAPCHA page appear.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.35.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New poject options to change web browser behaviour.
These options can be used to increase data extraction
performce and stabillity in WebBrowser mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.35.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper may crash when running in WebBrowser
mode while extracting data from some websites containing
Flash object.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.34.25
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Dealy after action" can be used to wait for
a certain number of milliseconds after an action, such as
a click on a link.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.24
--------------------------------------------------------- The content option "Redirect link" does not redirect
on meta refresh tags. A new option "Redirect on meta
refresh" is now available in the More options tab.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.23
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not move back after completing a
page navigation template in WebBrowser mode. This bug can
seriously interupt normal processing in many projects.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.22

--------------------------------------------------------- Projects with optional form templates sometimes

generate incorrect data output.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.21
--------------------------------------------------------- Setting the "Flatten data" option sometimes result in
empty data output.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.20
--------------------------------------------------------- Page area templates that are not defined as a list can
sometimes cause errors in output data.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.19
--------------------------------------------------------- Mutiple page navigation templates sometimes result in
incorrect data output.
- The scheduler email notification always indicates an
error may have occured even when no errors occured.
- If the browser zoom level changes there is no way to
change it back to default (CTRL +/- can now be used to
change zoom level).
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.18
--------------------------------------------------------- The path optimizer generates incorrect paths in some
rare scenarious.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.17
--------------------------------------------------------- The change in 2.34.16 has been reverted since it
casued problems in many other scenarious.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.16
--------------------------------------------------------- The path optimizer generates incorrect paths in some
rare scenarious.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.15
--------------------------------------------------------- The Visual Web Ripper online updater downloads a wrong
version of MySQL .NET connector.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.14

--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper fails to create new tables in MySQL
if the tables already existed, but was later deleted.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.13
--------------------------------------------------------- XPATHs functions with a non-existing XPATH as argument
throws an error, but should just result in an empty
selection.
- Visual Web Ripper now uses the latest version of
MySql .NET connector (v6.2.2)
- Visual Web Ripper fails to create new tables in MySQL
if the tables already existed, but was later deleted.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Duplicate actions are not always recognised correctly
in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.11
--------------------------------------------------------- The post-processing database helper API does not save
text data in SQL Server in the correct format.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Error setting OleDb input data source.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Error dialog with no content pops up when compiling
content scripts in the editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.8
--------------------------------------------------------- If a scheduled project is terminated while running,
the project status stays as running and the project
cannot be edited.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.7
---------------------------------------------------------

- Visual Web Ripper will sometimes generate incorrect

output data when flattening data if some data is missing.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Several errors in the More options Window.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to select a specific design link if the link
template is a sub-template of a page area template.
- custom Javascript overrides are not injected into
web pages if default Javascript overrides are not injected.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Error saving data to databases when two content
elements in different templates have the same name. This
error only occurs in some rare circumstances.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Some cookies cause errors in WebCrawler mode.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.34.2
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Redirect on meta refresh" can be used to
change default behaviour when the web browser encounters
a refresh meta tag.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Wrong page numbers when Using navigation sets in
WebBrowser mode (combination of page area and next navigation).
NEW IN RELEASE 2.34.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New data output options "Replace existing data" and
"Add to existing data".
- Some options moved from the project options Window to
the destination data source options Window.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.34.0

--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to select suitable wait elements for form fields
with AJAX actions.
- Selecting a template as an AJAX wait element does not
always work.
- The content script type does not work correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.18
--------------------------------------------------------- New page attribute "Timestamp".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.17
--------------------------------------------------------- Page numbers are incorrectly saved to output when
flattening data in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.16
--------------------------------------------------------- Error submitting forms where some form fields have
less values than a specified start index.
- The Copy/Move template Window doers not always populate
parent template drop down.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.15
--------------------------------------------------------- Minor WebCrawler parser update.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Improvements to the "Make line breaks" option.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.13
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper no longer opens up in a dialog style
Window, which was causing some problems in 3rd party
appliacations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper sometimes fail to load a webpage if
the "Partial page load" option has been set.

- An error sometimes occur when selecting an empty input

box.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.11
--------------------------------------------------------- CSV output sometime contains an empty column with
no values.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.10
--------------------------------------------------------- New form field option "Design time value" can be used
to easily set the input value used at design time.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.10
--------------------------------------------------------- When extracting text from a link template, the text is
also incorrectly saved for any following page navigation
template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Optional form fields don't empty the output data
entry when the form field is not found.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.8
--------------------------------------------------------- New Capture type option "Siblings" can be used to
include a specified number of HTML element siblings in
HTML content.
- Events can now be specified for all template
and form field actions.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser cookie is not always set correctly
when downloading files in WebBrowser mode. This can cause
issues especially with CAPTCHA images.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.7
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Partial page load for entire project"
applies the "Partial page load" option to all templates in
the project.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.6

--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Interactive document timeout".
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Minor user interface updates.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.33.4
--------------------------------------------------------- User interface updates.
- Help file updates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Redirect templates don't always work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Setting the option "New web browser" opens a new web
browser, but doesn't close the browser window again when
running in debug mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The duplicate action "CancelDataTable" does not cancel
page navigations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.33.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now locates frames by name rather
than index. This solves some issues related to frames
being created dynamically. Frame index is still used when
a frame has no name or ID.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.32.4
--------------------------------------------------------- File downloads do not redirect when required.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.32.3
---------------------------------------------------------

- Visual Web Ripper freezes in WebCrawler mode.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.32.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Using an OleDb destination data source causes an error
if the database tables already exist.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.32.1
--------------------------------------------------------- New duplicate data option "Minimum CancelDataRow checks".
NEW IN RELEASE 2.32.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New features for detecting duplicate data. Duplicate
reference data is now saved to disk, so data already
extracted in previous project runs can be ignored. When
Visual Web Ripper detects duplicate data it can cancel
the current data row or it can cancel the entire data
table. This behaviour can be fixed, or a special script
can be used to decide if Visual Web Ripper should be
cancelling the current data row or the data table.
- A condition script can now be set to cancel an element,
a data row or an entire data table. Previously, a condition
script could be set to cancel a template, but that
description did not always match what actually happened.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.31.14
--------------------------------------------------------- The visual editor now styles a maximum of 500 elements
to increase performance for very large web pages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.13
--------------------------------------------------------- If scheduling is turned from on to off in a project and
the project exists in the Schedule folder, the project is
deleted instead of the scheduled version of the project.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not add correct key columns to
flat data output if some templates has been set to not
flatten data.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.31.11
---------------------------------------------------------

- New filter "Must contain column header" can be used to

select a table column with a specified header text. This
is useful when the number of table columns varies.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.11
--------------------------------------------------------- It is not possible to set a design value for "Select"
form fields.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Potential memory leak when using "Continuous page area"
templates in WebCrawler mode.
- The template option "Extract text" does not work
correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.31.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Output folder for files and images can now be specified.
- Output folders can now be specified in project
preferences making it easier to set custom output folders
when saving to a database.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.9
--------------------------------------------------------- The option "Save file URL" does not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Xpath wildcards don't always work.
- Incorrect HTML syntax resulting in empty tag names
causes xpath errors.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Saving data can sometimes cause an error if template
names contain blank spaces.
- Saving data to flat format can sometimes cause an error.
-The script content type has no associated help files.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.31.6
---------------------------------------------------------

- New content type "Script" can be used to execute a

script anywhere within a template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.6
--------------------------------------------------------- When cancelling a content or template in the editor,
the name and type don't change back to the original values.
- An error sometimes occur when navigating in
InternetExplorer mode.
- Visual Web Ripper sometimes wait forever for pages to
load.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Upgraded projects don't work correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.31.4
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Form submit links" uses form submits when
following a links. only applicable in WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Cookies are not set when submitting forms in WebCrawler
mode.
- WebCrawler HTML parser updates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The online updater does not install the new script
editor correctly causing numerous errors.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Extracting link text from link templates does not always
work in WebBrowser mode.
- Several issues adding assembly references in the new
script editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.31.1
---------------------------------------------------------

- Non-repeating page area templates are processed even

when the selection does not exist.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.31.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Improved script editor.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.31.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Primary keys, page numbers and start URL are now
excluded from data output by default when flattening data.
- Form field values are no longer extracted by default.
Form field text is still extracted by default.
- File and image URLs are no longer extracted by default
when downloading files, and the file path column is now
named the same as the content name.
New option "Sort order" can be used to order output data
columns.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.30.11
--------------------------------------------------------- New form field option "Optional". If a form field is
optional, the form is submitted even if the form field
is not found.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.30.10
--------------------------------------------------------- New list feature "Skip last row count" can be used to
skip a number of items at the bottom of a list. This
option is similar to the "Start index" option, but works
at the bottom of a list.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.30.10
--------------------------------------------------------- All values in a drop down box are cancelled if the
drop down box fails to fire an event. Visual web Ripper
should move to the next value in the drop down box.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.30.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Xpath preceding-sibling axis is not supported.
- Xpath count function is not supported.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.30.8

--------------------------------------------------------- New form field option "Always fire events" fires
form field events even when the form field value has not
changed.
- The option "Optional wait" is now available for
form fields. This option has the same effect as the
corresponding action option.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.30.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The web crawler collector does not always redirect
when required.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.30.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The web crawler collector converts relative links on
secure web sites to unsecure links, causing data extraction
to fail.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.30.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The new script option "Use HTML as regex input" is
always applied to regex scripts.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.30.4
--------------------------------------------------------- New script option "Use HTML as regex input". When this
option is set, the raw HTML of an element is used as
regex transformation input instead of the extracted
content.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.30.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The script editor sometimes causes the Visual Web Ripper
application to crash or throw an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.30.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Save template" option is sometimes automatically
reset.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.30.1
---------------------------------------------------------

- Extracted data from one content element can now be used

in a regex script for another element in the same
template. The syntax is {$COLUMN_NAME} where COLUMN_NAME
is the name of the content element.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.30.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The expand and limit toolbar buttons now work on lists
created using the context menu list feature.
- The "Partial page load" option can now be set on
start URLs.
- The "Partial page load" timeout now starts from when
a webpage enters "interactive" mode instead of from
start of page load.
- Licensing changes. These changes apply to new customers
only.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.30.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Text filters containing the character "'" does not work
properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.29.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Help file update.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.29.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Excluded values can now be specified for form select
fields.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.29.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The browser context menu does not work when the website
has disabled the context menu.
- A page area template cannot be marked as optional.
- A missing required element does not always cause the
current data row to be deleted.
- The visual designer does not always use the input
data row set as design row.
The designer sometimes selects form field values that
are not within the specified range.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.29.3

--------------------------------------------------------- Content transformation is now always available in the
"more" options tab.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.29.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper can now handle captcha forms. A window
will appear when a captcha entry is required. The window
will display the capcha image and a user must then
manually enter the captcha code in order for
Visual Web Ripper to proceed.
- new toolbar button "No page loads" allows projects to
be edited without loading any web pages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.29.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The editor throws an error when moving back to a page
area template and the the page area template is the first
template in a project.
- The WebCrawler XPath parser does not decode some HTML
characters correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.29.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The scheduler now uses the RunProject.exe utility to
run projects. This means projects run in thier own process
and can run concurrently.
- The RunProject utility now uses the email settings
specified in the scheduler window. The email settings
can be configured without turning on scheduling, allowing
the use of custom schedulers while still taking advantage
of the standard emailing features.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.11
--------------------------------------------------------- The data source destination option "Clear output folder"
incorrectly takes effect even when a database data source
is selected.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.10
--------------------------------------------------------- The online updater sometimes fail without displaying
an error message.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.9

--------------------------------------------------------- Some links opening a new named window don't work
correctly in Visual Web Ripper.
- Some form fields are not set correctly in the designer.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes old selections are not cleared when opening
a template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The WebCrawler collector is sometimes failing when
trying to set cookies.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The toolbar button "Continue loading until manual stop"
does not work.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.5
--------------------------------------------------------- An incorrect data row is passed to scripts related to
navigation templates.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.28.4
--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Inject javascript before page load"
can be used to turn off injection of standard
Visual Web Ripper javascripts. Some web pages cannot load
properly with the injected javascripts.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.28.3
--------------------------------------------------------- New form template feature "Download file on submit" can
be used to download a file as a result of a form submit.
This feature has no effect in WebBrowser mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Cookies are not always set correctly in WebCrawler mode.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.28.2

--------------------------------------------------------- New content option "Strip invalid XML" removes invalid
XML characters from extracted content.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.28.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The project option "Truncate existing database tables
before saving data to a database" has no effect. Tables
are always being truncated.
- Primary keys are not always generated correctly which
can cause primary key violations when inserting data
into database tables.
- The option "Data row cache" has no effect in WebCrawler
mode.
- Data conversion error messages are not always displayed
in the GUI.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.28.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New toolbar button "Load webpage until manual stop"
will keep loading a webpage until the stop button is
clicked. This allows loading of webpages that reloads
after a time delay.
- The WebCrawler HTML parser no longer converts empty HTML
tags to XHTML. This should make it easier to make content
transformations, but it may break some existing
transformations.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.27.6
--------------------------------------------------------- New condition option "Cancel entire template (keep data
row)" can be used to cancel a template but keep data that
has already been extracted for the template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.27.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Not all input data rows are processed.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.27.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper is unable to navigate links with
certain onClick and HREF combinations.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.27.3

--------------------------------------------------------- The new option "Do not flatten template" sometimes
causes an error when viewing data.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.27.2
--------------------------------------------------------- New window to monitor element values. This can be used
to watch how element values change during AJAX actions.
- New template option "Do not flatten template" can be
used to make sure specific template data is saved in
a separate table even when the flatten data option is
set to true.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.27.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Rarely used options are now displayed in a separate
option panel.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.27.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New template and content option "Search all frames"
will search for template or content xpaths in all
frames, except the main document frame.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.27.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Page area templates using row span don't always display
correctly in the editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.19
--------------------------------------------------------- Error running file transformation scritps in C# and
VB.NET.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.18
--------------------------------------------------------- File name transformation script can be used to rename
file and image content.
- Updated introduction video.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.17
---------------------------------------------------------

- The data project methods RowCount and ChildTableRows

now remove deleted rows from data tables before
returning.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.16
--------------------------------------------------------- Dupplicate checks now work across a whole data table.
- New Utility class "ScriptUtility" can be used in
scripts.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.15
--------------------------------------------------------- Minor corrections to the WebCrawler HTML parser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.14
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper will sometimes remove the first data
column from data output if the project option
"Include start URL in data output" is not selected.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.13
--------------------------------------------------------- Software activation does not work correctly for some
non-english languages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.12
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper is not set to save start URL by
default.
- Output folder is not reset to default folder when
switching from file output to database output.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.11
--------------------------------------------------------- Minor bug fixes.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper can now download and update the
software automatically. You no longer have to uninstall
your old version and then download and install the new
version

NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.9

--------------------------------------------------------- New AJAX option "Stay in page area after AJAX call".
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Page navigation and back templates do not pick up a
default wait element if no wait element is specified.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.8
--------------------------------------------------------- New element attribute "position" returns the position
an HTML tag.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper is crashing when upgrading a project.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Syntax errors in default wait script.
- Help file updates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Unable to save a new project.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.4
--------------------------------------------------------- If a project needs to be upgraded, then this will
automatically occur when the project is run.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The flatten data option sometimes does not flatten the
data properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Not all required parameters were parsed to condition
scrtipts.

- Sometimes error windows pop up when using the script

editor.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.2
--------------------------------------------------------- CTRL can now be used to select elements in the browser
instead of using the left mouse button. This can be used
to prevent javascripts from executing when clicking on
elements in the browser.
- SHIFT+ALT should now be used to activate the browser
context menu in cases where the website has disabled the
context menu.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The comment part of a form input value would sometimes
be removed.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Input data transformation scripts can be used to
transform form input values or generate new form input
values.
- CTRL+ALT can be used to activate the browser context
menu in cases where the website has disabled the context
menu.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Some OnClick events don't fire correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.26.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New improved script editor with intellisence.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.26.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The flatten data option sometimes cause an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.25.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Incorrect software activation.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.25.5

--------------------------------------------------------- Software activation does not work correctly for some
non-english languages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.25.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The following error sometimes occur when running a
project "Access denied to file ...".
NEW IN RELEASE 2.25.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The browser option "Show selection borders" now only
colors borders and the main selected element. Child
elements are not colored which makes this selection mode
much faster.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.25.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Error saving extracted data to XML.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.25.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Switching between browser and web crawler mode causes a
memory leak resulting in an "Out of memory" error when
extracting data from large websites.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.25.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New template option "Cache" is now vailable for list
templates and form templates. The cache option specifies
the number of elements to process before writing data to
the data destination.
- New project option "Cache". The cache option specifies
the number of input data rows or start URLs to process
before writing data to the data destination.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.25.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The following error may occur when extracting page
attributes or fixed values: "Unexpected error: Index was
out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size
of the collection. Parameter name: index".

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.24.2

--------------------------------------------------------- The scheduler window always show the scheduler interval
as 1 no matter what value has actually been saved.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.24.1
--------------------------------------------------------- A few users are encountering the error "Object
synchronization method was called from an unsynchronized
block of code".
NEW IN RELEASE 2.24.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The "Save content" option now works slightly
differently. If this option is unticked data will still
be extracted and stored in memory, but it will not we
saved to the destination data source. This allows data
to be available for scripting without having to save
the data to the destination data source.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.23.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The new post-processing script feature did not work
properly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.23.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not change the start URL when
using the Visual Web Ripper browser to navigate to the
start URL.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.23.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Help file updates.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.23.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Custom xpath functions.
- Post-processing scripts.
- Data can now be saved to a destination data source
between each input data entry or start URL.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.23.0
---------------------------------------------------------

- Next page navigation does not work correctly in

WebCrawler mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.22.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper was relying on functionality in
.NET 2 SP2, and would crash if none of the following
framework versions were available 3.5 SP1, 3.0 SP2, 2.0 SP2.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.22.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper can now extract new data to a database
without having to truncate the data tables to avoid
primary key violations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.22.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper sometimes stop execution because
the software has not been properly activated.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.12
--------------------------------------------------------- An error sometimes appear when switching to web crawler
mode in the visual designer.
- The web crawler collector sometimes does not extract
any data when a HTML document starts with <!DOCTYPE.
- Documents starting with <!DOCTYPE sometimes get parsed
incorrectly by the web crawler parser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.11
--------------------------------------------------------- Selected elements loose visual styling in the browser
when using content transformation.
- Elements with a href attribute are not always
recognised as a possible link element.
- Minor corrections to the web crawler HTML parser.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Minor help file corrections.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.21.9

--------------------------------------------------------- Custom javascripts can now be added in project

preferences. These javascritps will override existing
javascritps on a webpage.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.21.8
--------------------------------------------------------- New destination data source option
"Use default output folder" will force Visual Web Ripper
to write all data output to the default Visual Web Ripper
data output folder.
- Selecting an element in the tree view will now longer
automatically select the corresponding element in the
browser. A new tree view context menu allows you to make
this selection.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.8
--------------------------------------------------------- A link area page navigation template sometimes skip pages
when combined with a single link page navigation
template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Content and link transformation scripts using old
method signature syntax would fail.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper sometimes try to process a popup where
there are no popup. This causes problems on some websites.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The new script argument SharedDatabase fails when used
with multiple web crawler threads.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.4
--------------------------------------------------------- An error occurs when executing a script.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Some images are missing in the help files.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.2

--------------------------------------------------------- Some characters in template and content names cause
errors when saving data to databases or Excel.
- Content transformation does not work on form fields in
URL form templates.
- Select boxes don't always work correctly for form fields
in URL form templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.21.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Form template name is not saved when adding a form field
content element.
- The web crawler parser is unable to parse HTML pages
where the body tag contains other body tags.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.21.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Condition scritps can now be used to cancel elements or
entire templates when certain conditions are met.
- Condition options are now called filters.
- A database connection can now be defined for use in
scripts.
- If SQL Server is chosen as destination data source and
the sQL Server is version 2005 or higher, then text columns
will be defined as nvarchar(max) instead of ntext.
- A manual list of start URLs can now be combined with an
input data source. All data rows in the input data source
will be cycled for each start URL.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.20.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New option "Duplicate check" can be set on content
elements to automatically remove duplicates.
- The data output folder can now be specified when configuring
a destination data source.
- New option "Add time stamp to data output file".
- New option "Clear data output folder before extracting
new data"

NEW IN RELEASE 2.19.8

--------------------------------------------------------- New project option "Page load delay" can be used to set
a default delay between page loads.
- MySql connector updated to the latest version.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.19.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Some incorrect meta tag syntax may cause an error in
Visual Web Ripper.
- If Visual Web Ripper cannot navigate to one link in a link
template it may skip other links in the template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.19.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Javascripts are not always executed on the right frame
when extracting data from a website containing frames.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.19.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Some options cannot be set (this is a critical bug
preventing normal operation of Visual Web Ripper).
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.19.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Help text corrections.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.19.3
--------------------------------------------------------- "A Cryptographic error occurred" appears after upgrading
to version 2.19.2.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.19.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper does not always recognise a valid
license key.
- Visual Web Ripper runs in 64bit mode on 64bit Windows
causing some issues with flash.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.19.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Webpages with a http-equiv refresh meta tag does not

redirect when using the web browser collector.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.19.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New template option "Disabled" can be used to exclude a
template from processing. This can be useful for debugging
purposes.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.19.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Row span does not work if combined with a text condition.
- The "Save content" option does not reset when switching
between content and template view.
- The attribute condition includes an incorrect style
attribute.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.18.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper crashes when extracting data from
websites with a large number navigation pages.
- Column names do not retain proper case in output data.
- Content, template and project names containing certain
characters cause errors when saving data to a database.
- Webpage elements sometimes get marked as selected without
being selected when switching between content and template
view in a page area template.
- When editing a template and choosing "Select nearest link"
from the visual editor's context menu, the template type
automatically switches to Link, which is not always
appropriate.
- A link template does not click on an element unless
the element is a link tag or has an onclick property.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.17.10
--------------------------------------------------------- When using an input data source, the data row used in
design mode can now be specified in the "View Data" window.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.17.9
--------------------------------------------------------- New FormField action option "Action on edit in design mode"
allows you to specify if a form field should fire the
onChange event when being edited in the designer.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.9

--------------------------------------------------------- The direct form URL feature did not work correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.17.8
--------------------------------------------------------- When drop down boxes are extracted as text elements,
both value and text are extracted. Select options are
separated by line break, and value and text are separated
by the character '|'.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Opening a "Next page link" page navigation template in
the visual editor should now always work correctly.
- The "Make line breaks" option did not work with P tags
containing attributes.
- An input data source linked directly to a form template
did not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.17.5 introduced a bug making it very
difficult to set a value for input form elements.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.17.6
--------------------------------------------------------- New page navigation type "Continuing link area" can be
used when there is no "Next page" link and when the page
navigation moves forward automatically when selecting
pages in the nevigation. Google search is an example of
such a navigation style, although Google search does
have a next page link, which should be used when
extracting data from Google search.
- CSV input data values can now be separated by comma, tab
or semicolon.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Some issues related to CSV input data files when used as
lookup data sources.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.5

--------------------------------------------------------- The debug window now shows a maximum of 200 lines of

text. Projects extracting large amount of data could write
so much debug information that the system would run out
of memory.
- Repeated selections were not always optimized properly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.17.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Regex transformations can now replace with special
characters "\r\n", "\n" and "\t".
- New regex transformation actions html_decode and trim.
- New capture type option "Make line breaks". This feature
is available for text content type only and replaces P and
BR tags with standard Windows line breaks.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.17.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper no longer clears a current selection
when switching between content and template view.
- The Create List context menu can now be selected in
content view. Visual Web Ripper will automatically switch
to template view when the menu item is selected.
- The "Save Point" option now works in web crawler mode,
but only if the number of web crawler worker threads are
set to 0.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Text conditions containing the character ' would fail.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper did not use appropriate proxy and cookie
information when downloading files and images.
- Some minor issues related to the new "Create List" context
menu.
- Character encoding was not set correctly for all websites
when using the web crawler collector.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.17.1
---------------------------------------------------------

- A new regex content transformation operator "decode" can

be used to URL decode content.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Proper error messages are now displayed in the debug
window when an eror occurs during download of files and
images.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.17.0
--------------------------------------------------------- A link linking directly to an image can now be specified
as image content type.
- A list of selected elements can now be created by
selecting one element, then hovering over another element and
selecting create list from the context menu.
- Visual Web Ripper should now run as a 32 bit process on
64 bit Windows. This should eliminate some potential
issues on 64 bit Windows. This is a temporary solution that
will be in place until we have a proper 64 bit testing
environment for Visual Web Ripper.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.17.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Content transformation was not activated for file and
image content type if the content was empty.
- The web browser collector did not always navigate back
to the right webpage when a template contained a
page navigation template.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.16.8
--------------------------------------------------------- A back template can now use browser history to move back
if a back link does not exist.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.16.8
--------------------------------------------------------- Start index and count properties would sometimes not
work for flow repeat.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.16.7
--------------------------------------------------------- New action option "Wait for interactive page load only".
If this option is checked, then Visual Web Ripper will only
wait until a webpage becomes interactive. This option

is only useful for webpages that never loads completely

(most likely because of javascript errors).
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.16.7
--------------------------------------------------------- A back template was incorrectly activated when skipping
a template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.16.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The context menus "Keep in Selection" and "Remove from
Selection" were not always available when they should be.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.16.5
--------------------------------------------------------- More HTML information in the visual designer context
menu.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.16.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper did not properly check for new
releases.
- Startup page links did not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.16.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Switching to web crawler view in the visual designer
could sometimes cause an error.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.16.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Content transformation on file URLs now occurs before
the files are downloaded. This allows you to modify the
URL where a file should be downloaded from.
- New project option to save extracted files with their
original file names. Notice: this can cause extracted
files to be overwritten, so this option is turned off by
default.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.16.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Shift + left click did not work correctly to add new
content or templates.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.16.1

--------------------------------------------------------- The browser context menu in the visual designer now have
menus to select parent and child elements of the currnet
element.
- The Capture window now shows both value and text
properties of select options.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.16.1
--------------------------------------------------------- AJAX wait elements did not always work correctly for
page navigation templates.
- Repeated selections that had been expanded would
sometimes reset and lose the expansion.
- Selection paths are now updated before a content or
template is saved, so a click on the Ok button in the
options window is no longer required before a save.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.16.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New "Back" template can be used to specify how to
navigate back to the previous template.
- Scripting methods are now provided with information about
current extracted data and the current project.
- Assembly references can be added to a project and are
available to all scripts in the project.
- Many more debugging features.
- Template and content positions can now be moved up and
down.
- A new web browser can now be opened to process link
templates. This option applies to the web browser and
Internet Explorer collectors only

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.16.0

--------------------------------------------------------- Onchange events did not always fire correctly.
- The row span feature did not always work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.15.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The flatten data option for XLS and CSV output did not

always work correctly.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.15.5
--------------------------------------------------------- An error would occur if the licensing screen was closed
without entering a license key.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.15.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper new checks for new releases online at
startup.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.15.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The web crawler collector would sometimes save
navigation data incorrectly causeing an error when trying
to view extracted data.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.15.2
--------------------------------------------------------- New page attributes "Head" and "HTML" extract the Head
HTML and all HTML.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.15.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The web crawler collector did not handle all forms
of new windows correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.15.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The row span option was not working correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.14.11
--------------------------------------------------------- A recent optimization caused the input data source to
work incorrectly when used for form fields.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.14.10
--------------------------------------------------------- New feature to save all select options to a file.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.14.10
---------------------------------------------------------

- The view browser feature did not display progress

correctly for all templates.
- The page load value was incorrect for the web browser
collector.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.14.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Some optimization to the web crawler collector.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.14.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The Select Link Element context menu did not always
work correctly.
- Next Page Navigation templates did not always work
correctly when the next page link was an image.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.14.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Configuration can now be set for CSV input data sources.
- The web crawler collector can now process start URLs
in multiple threads.
- Flattern data now tries to save data into a single file
or workbook.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.14.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Some optimizations related to page area templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.14.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The xpath method last() returned the last position + 1
instead of the last position. All projects using the
last() method must be modified to match this change.
- Some attribute conditions would work different in
web crawler and web browser mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.14.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Waiting for elements to load could sometimes cause an
error.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.14.4

--------------------------------------------------------- An installer error would occur on Windows Vista.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.14.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Fixed a minor issues with new dialog boxes.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.14.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now asks for confirmation before
automatically changing a repeated link element selection.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.14.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Fixed some minor issues related to element selection.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.14.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now has two versions of the web
browser collector. The Internet Explorer data collector
is slow, but reliable. The web browser data collector is
faster, but may become unstable on some websites with
flash objects unless the project properly waits for flash
objects to completely load.
- Visual Web Ripper will now automatically look for the
nearest link or form submit element when creating a link
or form submit template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.13.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The flattern data option works slightly different, and
will now work on all extracted data.
- The option "Wait for element" did not work correctly
unless a wait script was specified.
- Ajax wait elements did not work correctly if the elements
were template elements with no inner text.
- Incorrect parsing of HTML in the web crawler collector.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.13.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Frameset could sometimes cause errors in the web browser
collector.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.13.6

--------------------------------------------------------- Popup windows were not always handled correctly in the
visual editor and web browser collector.
- A frame redirect now uses the frame's document URL
instead of the src attribute. This only applies to the web
browser collector.
- The "Visit each page only once" option did not work
correctly in the web browser collector.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.13.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Regex scripts now ignores case and line breaks. This
makes it easier to transform HTML content.
- Regex scripts now support replace and multiple groups.
- Regex scripts can now contain multiple regex operations.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.13.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser collector now cancels immediately when
the cancel button is clicked.
- Selection path syntax errors are now displayed in the
visual editor, rather than just an empty selection.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.13.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Selection templates did not work correctly in all
situation.
- Missing help file for selection template options.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.13.2
--------------------------------------------------------- New template type "Selection" can be used to add or
remove elements from a template with a repeated selection.
- The selection xpath now supports union and exclusion
operators.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.13.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Ajax actions without a wait element did not work

correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.13.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Some issues related to opening new browser windows.
- Some issues related to older projects using the old fast
browsing options.
- Javascript errors can now be turned off in the visual
editor
NEW IN RELEASE 2.13.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser collector now uses a true instance of
Internet Explorer, which has greatly increased the
reliabillity of the collector on all websites.
- The web browser collector now has a debug mode that
shows the web browser while data is being extracted.
Actions and extracted content is also being maked in the
web browser while data is being extracted.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.12.7
--------------------------------------------------------- HTML objects, such as flash videos, could sometimes
cause the browser collector to become unstable over time
and eventually crash. All HTML object elements are now
removed from web pages.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.12.6
--------------------------------------------------------- AJAX actions can now wait for elements deeper down the
project hierarchy.
- New element option "Wait for element" will wait for the
element to load. This simple wait condition could only be
accomplished with a wait script in earlier versions.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.12.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The form template options tab would sometimes show the
redirect template options.
- The visual editor would not properly wait for wait
element.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.12.5
---------------------------------------------------------

- The visual editor now shows a webpage while the webpage

is being loaded.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.12.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Form wait elements would not always work correctly.
- Trial version did not work.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.12.3
--------------------------------------------------------- The link template option has been removed.
- Trailing spaces are now removed from select box text
values.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.12.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Link type content elements starting with javascript
could potentially cause a problem.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.12.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Image file format should now be determined correctly on
all image links.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.12.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The visual editor would always ask to upgrade a project,
even if the project did not need an upgrade.
- Some encoding issues have been fixed in the web crawler
collector.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.12.0
--------------------------------------------------------- New template action "AJAX with full page load" covers
scenarious where a link activates an AJAX call that waits
for a while and then loads a new page.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.12.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Some web sites using frames were not loaded correctly.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.11.1

--------------------------------------------------------- Some added and updated documentation.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.11.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Improved navigation performance in the visual editor.
- Improved performace of the web browser collector.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.10.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Cookies are not set correctly when using the web crawler
collector.
- The scheduler are now sending out email notifications
correctly
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.10.2
--------------------------------------------------------- A page navigation template now waits for an AJAX element
to load in the visual designer.
- A "Next Page" page navigation template now stops if the
next page element is hidden.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.10.1
--------------------------------------------------------- A page navigation template can now be opened in the
visual editor. This will open the next page in the
navigation, or any selected page.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.10.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The scheduler did not work correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.10.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Content and link transformation now supports regex.
- New xpath method ismatch matches against a regular
expresion.
- Single element page navigation templates can now be set
to visit each page only once.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.10.0

--------------------------------------------------------- The repeated selection count property counted one too
many elements.
- Optimization did not work correctly for parent flow
repeat.
- Elements firing an event and placed in a particular
frame would lose the frame information when edited.
- A project would sometimes behave incorrectly when
running the project multiple times from the visual editor.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.9.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Selection optimization did not always work correctly.
- Textarea and password form fields did not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.9.4
--------------------------------------------------------- The selection options "Keep element types in selection"
and "Remove element types from selection" did not always
work correctly.
- Switching from web browser to web crawler collector did
not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.9.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Selection optimization did not work correctly.
- The web crawler collector did not extract page meta tags
correctly.
- The internal HTML parser could sometimes throw an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.9.2
--------------------------------------------------------- The "file" content option did not work properly.
- The internal xpath parser has been changed slightly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.9.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Condition elements are now colored in the visual editor.
- Page navigation templates of type "link area" and
"next page link" can now be combined.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.9.1

--------------------------------------------------------- Incorrect character encoding when submitting forms

using the web crawler collector, and as a result some
characters would appear as ???.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.9.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The visual editor's context menu now includes options to
include or exclude elements from a repeated selection
based on thier class attribute.
- Attribute and text conditions are now set in different
fields.
- AJAX wait scripts now also get an extra parameter
specifying if the wait is optional.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.9.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Several bug fixes related to page navigation templates.
- Setting the "Include attribute" option to "class" did
not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.8.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Several bug fixes related to page navigation templates
of link area type.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.8.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Missing required elements are now logged at log level 1.
- When submitting a form, the visual editor will now only
use drop down values that are part of the selected set of
values.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.8.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The output data structure has changed slightly to
shorten table names.
- Skipped templates will now generate dummy data entries
to ensure a consistent data output structure.
- Template names must now be unique within a project.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.7.2

--------------------------------------------------------- Error when using the visual editor in navigation mode.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.7.1
--------------------------------------------------------- A CSV file can now be used as input data source.
- Visual Web Ripper now displays a warning if the
collector has missed required elements or if a page
timeout has occured.
- A project will now be run for each row of data in the
global data source, even if multiple starting URLs
are not specified.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.7.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Form fields could not be set to use a global data field.
- Javascript alert boxes are now properly blocked by the
web browser collector.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.7.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The toolbar now has a drop down where the active frame
can be selected.
- AJAX wait scripts should now accept an IHTMLElement as
argument instead of a HtmlElement. Existing scripts using
a HtmlElement argument will get receive a null value.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.7.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Frame redirects could sometimes cause an error in the
visual editor.
- Fixed a minor styling issue in the visual editor.
- SSL starting URLs were not set correctly.
- Checkbox values should now be set correctly in the visual
editor.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.6.11
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper can now fire the onkeyup event on
text boxes.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.6.10

--------------------------------------------------------- A separate input data source can now be set for a form
submit template.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.10
--------------------------------------------------------- Changes to the internal HTML parser to avoid some HTML
form issues.
- Forms were not always submitted correctly in the editor
when in web crawler mode.
- The NOT operator was not recognised by the internal
xpath parser.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.6.9
--------------------------------------------------------- Several string functions added to the internal xpath
parser (contains, substring, StartsWith, replace, remove,
trim, length).
- Additional logging added to the web browser collector.
- The web browser collector will now try to recover from
some webpage timeouts.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.9
--------------------------------------------------------- The internal xpath parser did not recognise the !=
operator.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.6.8
--------------------------------------------------------- A default cookie can now be set for the web crawler
collector.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.8
--------------------------------------------------------- A display issue on the processing status screen could
cause errors.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.6.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Three new repeat options. Vertical repeat is designed to
repeat across rows in a table. Horizontal repeat is
designed to repeat across cells in a table. Free repeat

works as repeat in previous versions.

- A condition path no longer has to be a sub-path of the
selected element.
- A condition attribute now applies to the condition path
if a condition path is entered. The condition attribute
applies to the selected alement if no condition path is
entered.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.7
--------------------------------------------------------- The condition sub-path option did not work correct.
- The repeat start index and count did not work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Page navigation templates of link area type did not
work correctly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now fires both onchange and onclick
events for Select boxes.
- The entered start URL is now used as start URL, instead
of the resulting URL, which could be different in case of
redirects.
- The internal HTML parser should now handle table
headers correctly.
- Cookies should now be set correctly when using the
editor in web crawler mode.
- The page load timeout project option now applies to both
the web browser and web crawler collector
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Fixed some issues when having templates within page
area templates.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Fixed an issue with the internal HTML parser, which
would sometimes return an empty page if the page had some
particular incorrect HTML syntax.

NEW IN RELEASE 2.6.2

--------------------------------------------------------- A list of anonymous proxy servers can now be added for
use with the web crawler collector.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.2
--------------------------------------------------------- A few fixes related to cascading AJAX drop down boxes
in design mode.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.1
--------------------------------------------------------- The selection path of elements within a page area
template would not get optimized correctly.
- A page navigation template could in care cases cause
an infinite loop.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.6.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper now uses proper XPath as selection
paths. Older projects must be upgraded to use the new
selection path syntax.
- The Visual Web Ripper HTML parser has been improved to
better handle invalid HTML syntax.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.6.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Several fixes related to lookup data sources.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.5.11
--------------------------------------------------------- The Visual Web Ripper HTML parser usded for the fast
web crawler collector has been modified slightly. This may
require some projects using this collector to be adjusted
slightly.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.5.11
--------------------------------------------------------- The flatten data feature did not work correctly for all
projects.
- The frame redirect did not work correctly for all
web sites.

- The Visual Web Ripper editor sometimes showed a green

element status in web crawler mode, even when the web
crawler was unable to locate the element.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.5.10
--------------------------------------------------------- The Visual Web Ripper editor can now show web pages in
web browser or web crawler mode. This makes it much easier
to create a project for use with the web crawler collector
when the target website contains poorly formatted HTML.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.5.9
--------------------------------------------------------- A new template type "Redirect" can be used to redirect to
a fixed URL or to a particular frame on a webpage.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.5.9
--------------------------------------------------------- The flatten data feature did not work correctly for all
projects.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.5.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The fast web crawler collector can now login and
maintain state information between web pages.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.5.8
--------------------------------------------------------- The web browser collector would sometimes be unable to
extract data from a page area template if the web page
contained severe syntax errors.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.5.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Link transformation scripts can now be used to transform
links when using the web crawler collector.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.5.6
--------------------------------------------------------- The number of web crawler worker threads can now be set
in the project preferences screen.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.5.6
---------------------------------------------------------

- Some URLs would be constructed incorrectly causing an

error when using the web crawler collector.
NEW IN IN RELEASE 2.5.5
--------------------------------------------------------- The AJAX options tab has been renamed to Action, and
now allows you to set wait conditions for full page loads.
This can be useful when an AJAX call is triggered
immediately after a page has loaded.
- Visual Web Ripper can now load URLs with combinations of
different URL parameter values. This works like submitting
a normal form, but a form is never actually submitted.
Instead the form field values are put directly on the URL
and the page is loaded. This increases performance and
makes it possible to avoid forms that are difficult to
submit automatically. This does not work for forms posting
values to the website (using the POST method).
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.5.4
--------------------------------------------------------- Form fields with a list of fixed values would only use
the first value when submitting forms.
- Visual Web Ripper would sometimes throw an error when
a license key was entered.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.5.3
--------------------------------------------------------- Empty tables would sometimes be added when using page
navigation templates.
- A full page load incorrectly marked as an AJAX call
would sometimes cause an error.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.5.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Several fixes related to submitting forms automatically.
- Link type templates will now look for a refresh meta tag
and redirect if appropriate when opened.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.5.1
--------------------------------------------------------- Link type content will now try to extract links obscured
by javascript.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.5.0
---------------------------------------------------------

- Wait conditions can now be scripted for all elements.

This is useful when AJAX causes elements to load delayed.
- Visual Web Ripper can now handle cascading AJAX drop
down boxes.
- MySQL is now supported as input or destination data
source.
- Data output files are now named according to the project
name instead of the generic name collected_data.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.5.0
--------------------------------------------------------- A form field that triggers a full postback would cause
an error when saving the content element in the designer.
- Form field count would count one element too much.
- Several issues related to form field AJAX events have
been fixed.
- The CSV data destination option could not be set.
- The URL used when opening a template was not always
correct
NEW IN RELEASE 2.4.0
--------------------------------------------------------- The expand and limit selection buttons will now continue
to expand or limit a repeated selection until the number
of selected elements has changed. Before, you would
sometimes have to press the buttons repeatedly to get the
desired effect.
- AJAX wait conditions can now be scripted.
- The System.Web.dll is now loaded into the script
processor by default.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.4.0
--------------------------------------------------------- Extracted data could not be viewed when certain data
entries were missing.
- MailTo links are now correctly recognised as emails.
- The characters // would cause a problem when used in a
condition string.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.3.7
---------------------------------------------------------

- A link type content with redirect now looks for both

the redirect response code and the refresh meta tag, when
extracting the final URL.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.3.7
--------------------------------------------------------- A page area template can now be set to wait until loaded.
This is in case a webpage area is loaded delayed with AJAX.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.3.7
--------------------------------------------------------- Several issues related to AJAX page navigation have been
fixed.
- Non-existing repeated page area elements would cause an
error in the data viewer. Data would still be extracted
and saved correctly.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.3.6
--------------------------------------------------------- Custom content transformation scripts can be added in
C# or VB.NET.
NEW IN IN RELEASE 2.3.5
--------------------------------------------------------- It is now possible to post-process before or after data
has been saved to the selected destination data source.
- A new window is available that shows the tree view of
how the web crawler sees a webpage. This can be used to
find inconsistencies between how the web browser and the
web crawler read a webpage when the webpage contains
invalid HTML.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.3.5
--------------------------------------------------------- Non-repeating, Non-existing page area templates would
cause data extraction to skip elements and save incorrect
data.
- The web crawler data collector would not work if a URL
contained the character '/' in the query strings.
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.3.4
--------------------------------------------------------- A few bug fixes related to the input data source
functionality.

BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.3.3

--------------------------------------------------------- When running a project the progress bar would sometimes
start before actually running the project.
- After running a project once, an error would occur if the
next run processed more pages than the first run.
- Inner HTML content type was not extracted correctly using
the web crawler collector.
NEW IN RELEASE 2.3.2
--------------------------------------------------------- A list of starting URLs can now be entered on the
project preferences screen.
- When retrieving the starting URLs from a database, the
url column name can now be set, and does not have to be
named URL"
- The input data source can now be a SQL Server database
or any other database supporting OleDb
- The default locatio All output data, projects and
post-processors are now saved to
BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 2.3.2
--------------------------------------------------------- Visual Web Ripper can now run on Windows Vista with
User Access Control turned on without having to run as
administrator
- Several bug fixes related to the input data source
functionality.