Inspyder Power Search Changelog

What's new in Inspyder Power Search 5.0.1.8635

Oct 22, 2015
  • TLS 1.1 and 1.2 are now supported if .NET 4.5 (or later) is installed on your PC
  • Crawler now auto-detects when Windows-1252 codepage is mislabeled as ISO-8859-1
  • Minor internal tweaks for Windows 10
  • Soft 404 detection is now case insensitive
  • JavaScript errors can now be hidden on the Login Wizard
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Scrape Editor to never allow scraping

New in Inspyder Power Search 5.0.0 (Jul 30, 2015)

  • Brand new Windows 10 look and feel
  • .NET 4.0 is now the required runtime (.NET 2.0 is no longer supported)
  • Updated the Scrape Editor so that scripts are not removed automatically
  • Updated all internal components to latest versions

New in Inspyder Power Search 4.1.0 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Improved the Scrape Editor accuracy
  • Improved the Scrape Editor's Group function
  • Updated some queries in the Query Library
  • Improved support for scraping from corporate networks
  • Power Search now works with sites that have SSLv3 disabled
  • Renamed "Advanced Project Settings" to "Advanced Options", and changed "Default Project Settings" to "Project Defaults"
  • Updated 3rd party components
  • Power Search will now work in a FIPS compliant environment

New in Inspyder Power Search 4.0.3 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • Various bug fixes to scraper engine
  • URL timeouts no longer cause a pop-up window

New in Inspyder Power Search 4.0.2 (Jun 13, 2013)

  • Added a checkbox to suppress all script errors in the Scrape Editor (enabled by default)
  • Updated Power Search so that .NET 4.0 is the preferred framework if multiple versions of .NET are installed

New in Inspyder Power Search 4.0.1 (Jun 13, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug that would prevent the "Edit", "Group" and "Delete" buttons would not be enabled in the Scrape Editor
  • Fixed the render mode of the embedded web browser in the Scrape Editor

New in Inspyder Power Search 4.0.0.4434 (Apr 19, 2013)

  • Brand new Point-and-Click interface for web scraping
  • Nested scraping is now possible (allows for more complex data to be extracted from pages)
  • Power Search now requires .NET 3.5 or higher
  • Projects can be organized into folders
  • Changes made to the Default Project Settings now affect all projects.
  • Power Search can now be paused and will automatically pause / resume if your PC suspends or hibernates
  • New application icon
  • Results are now saved with projects
  • You can now change the folder to store Project Files in
  • Added a command line option that specifies a list of Root URLs to crawl (automatically replaces the Root URL and Additional Root URLs in the project)

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.2.6 (Nov 22, 2012)

  • Fixed "Remove HTML" option not sticking in Scrape Editor
  • Fixed Scrape Editor browser display not working with some non-Latin character sets
  • Fixed minor bug in the Scrape feature that could cause the incorrect field to be scraped in some rare situtations

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.2.5 (Nov 22, 2012)

  • Minor change to Power Search installer

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.2.4 (Nov 22, 2012)

  • Tweaked the Scrape Editor so that "Remove HTML" option is present in both Advanced and Basic modes

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.2.3 (Mar 15, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug in the scrape processor that would prevent attributes from being parsed correctly

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.2.2 (Mar 15, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug that would prevent the Scrape Editor from working with some types of tables.

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.2.1.2637 (Dec 1, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug that would prevent the Scrape Editor from working if the "Form Wizard" was run from the Passwords & Forms window.

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.2.0 (Dec 1, 2011)

  • New "XPath" query type
  • Updated main UI: radio buttons replaced by drop-down list (less clutter)
  • Various enhancements to scrape editor
  • Improved site compatibility
  • Added new post-processing options (Remove Text and Regex)
  • Added ability to select an HTML attribute in Advanced Mode
  • Updated query library (some new queries, enhanced some older queries for better performance)
  • Added new advanced crawler settings
  • Added new standard User-Agents for IE9 and FireFox
  • Changed XML output, "Result" element is now called "ResultItem"
  • Whitespace is now automatically trimmed from scraped text

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.1.5 (Mar 17, 2011)

  • Fixed pop-up handling in Scrape Editor (pop-up windows are now opened in the main window)

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.1.4 (Mar 17, 2011)

  • Repackaged installer as a standalone exe
  • Fixed minor bugs in Scrape Editor interface

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.1.3 (Jan 13, 2011)

  • Windows Program Compatibility Assistant no longer appears after running Power Search
  • Solved "Unexpected Error" that could occur when using Scrape interface
  • Fixed various issues related cookies when crawling

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.1.2 (Jan 13, 2011)

  • Enhanced Scrape Editor to make capture of selected text more accurate

New in Inspyder Power Search 3.1.1 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • Added ability to save log
  • Added log entries when HTTP redirects are detected (for troubleshooting crawl issues)
  • Fixed Scrape Editor not working on Windows XP with IE6
  • Improved accuracy of "Capture Selection" in Scrape Editor