What's new in Social networks crawler 2024.1.12.1
Jan 12, 2024
- Added:
- YouTube (SCrawler): data downloading by dates
- Feed: ability to merge multiple session feeds into one
- Feed: remove session number from special feeds
- Fixed:
- Instagram: stories (user) downloading with the wrong aspect ratio for some users (Issue #179)
- YouTube: incorrect opening of a post from the feed
- YouTube: wrong date to data parsing
New in Social networks crawler 2023.12.14.0 (Dec 14, 2023)
- Added:
- YouTube: options Create thumbnail files (video) and Create thumbnail files (music)
- YouTube: Select all and Select none buttons
New in Social networks crawler 2023.12.7.0 (Dec 7, 2023)
- Added:
- Saved posts: add downloaded saved posts to the feed
- YouTube (SCrawler): the ability to download YouTube user community feeds
- Main window: add Alt+A hotkey to show scheduler
- Main window: add Alt+P hotkey to show progress form
- YouTube: check of adding a URL if it has already been downloaded
- YouTube: ability to check for a new version at start
- Updater
- Fixed:
- Standalone downloader: URL files are not deleted along with the file
- Minor bugs
New in Social networks crawler 2023.9.21.0 (Sep 21, 2023)
- Fixed issue for a website:
- Videos are not downloading
New in Social networks crawler 2023.9.20.0 (Sep 20, 2023)
- Added:
- Instagram: user active (non-pinned) stories (Issue #17)
- Reddit: reduce the number of token updates (refresh the token if there are Reddit users in the download queue)
- YouTube (standalone app): priority download protocol (Settings - Defaults - Protocol) (you can now select the default protocol you want to download media on: Any, https, m3u8))
- Automation: ability to change schedulers (Download - Automation - Script icon)
- Collections: update colors for the added user
- Fixed:
- YouTube: can't detect shorts links
- Incorrect MD5 validation initial value
- Instagram: handle error 500
- Collections: update labels only for the added user
New in Social networks crawler 2023.8.27.0 (Aug 27, 2023)
- Added:
- Advanced download (Download - Download (advanced))
- Advanced filter (View - Advanced filter)
- Auto downloader: cloning plans
- Feed: add button to go to custom page
- Special log for non-existent users
- Twitter: group 'limit' notifications
- Ability to set custom color for subscription users
- Other improvements
- Fixed:
- Auto downloader: new plan date display bug (Issue #161)
- Auto downloader: downloading stuck
- Minor bugs
New in Social networks crawler 2023.6.19.0 (Jun 19, 2023)
- Added:
- YouTube: make the playlists parsing progress more informative
- YouTube: add Add button to tray
- YouTube: add Ctrl+Click on tray icon to add download
- YouTube: add setting Download on click in tray: show form
- Minor improvements to progress bars
- Other improvements
- Fixed:
- YouTube: incorrect sorting algorithm
- Reddit: downloaded gifs are static (Issue #141)
- Progress bar bugs
- Minor bugs
New in Social networks crawler 2023.6.9.0 (Jun 10, 2023)
- Fixed:
- YouTube: opening paths to downloaded playlists and channels
- Twitter: make the algorithm faster
- Make progress more informative
New in Social networks crawler 2023.6.8.0 (Jun 8, 2023)
- Added:
- YouTube: append artist name to music playlist output path
- YouTube: save thumbnail path for playlist and channel
- Fixed:
- YouTube: opening paths to downloaded playlists and channels
- Twitter: profile not fully downloaded
- Instagram site settings: Corrected form size for small monitors
New in Social networks crawler 2023.3.5.0 (Mar 5, 2023)
- Fixed:
- A bug in the new way of naming SavedPosts data files.
- An error that could occur during Twitter MD5 comparison.
- A bug in the ffmpeg file parts concatenation algorithm that could occur in some cases.
New in Social networks crawler 2023.3.1.0 (Mar 1, 2023)
- Added:
- Path plugin. Now you can add paths. This may be suitable if you want to add a collection of media data to a specific user collection.
- MainWindow: setting a background image
- MainWindow: setting background color and font color
- Feed: setting background color and font color
- Feed: center the image in the feed grid
- Users: the ability to use user site name (if it exists) as a friendly name (on supported sites: Reddit, Twitter, Instagram)
- Users: the ability to update user site name every time
- Twitter: ability to download images using MD5 comparison to protect against duplicate downloads (this may be suitable for the users who post the same image many times)
- Twitter: one-time duplicate image removal option
- Updated:
- Updated ffmpeg to version 5.1.2
- Fixed:
- Problem with non-Latin characters
- ffmpeg: maximum input length error when merging parts of files
New in Social networks crawler 2023.2.5.0 (Feb 6, 2023)
- Added:
- The ability to configure UserAgent
- Fixed:
- (Issue #101) Failed download Gfycat video in some cases
New in Social networks crawler 2023.1.24.1 (Jan 24, 2023)
- Added:
- Icon for standalone downloader
- Fixed:
- (Issue #100) some Imgur albums won't download
New in Social networks crawler 2023.1.24.0 (Jan 24, 2023)
- Fixed:
- (Issue #100) Imgur albums not downloading
- When deleting a collection with the 'ban' option, users in the collection are not banned
New in Social networks crawler 2022.12.26.0 (Dec 27, 2022)
- Added:
- Updated user loading algorithm
- Channels button to tray context menu
- (Request #96) Add FFmpeg to x86 version
- Fixed:
- Cannot delete multiple collections at once
- Can't focus user from the download info form
- Instagram downloader not working
- Minor bugs
New in Social networks crawler 2022.11.16.0 (Nov 16, 2022)
- Added:
- Download indicator. While downloading, the rainbow tray icon changed to a blue arrow.
- Collections: the ability to edit a collection using a form
- Collections: the ability to create a virtual collection and add a virtual user to a real collection
- Collections: an easier way to added users to a collection (you can select multiple users and a collection to add users to this collection)
- Collections: an easier way to create collections (you can select multiple users and a collection to add users to this collection)
- Added icons for channels form context menu buttons
- More convenient change of user labels from the context menu of the user list
- Notifications: complete transition from default notifications to ToastNotifications
- Notifications: when you click on the notification that some of the channels are downloaded, the channels form opens
- Notifications: when you click on the notification that all users are downloaded, the main window form opens
- Notifications: when you click on the notification that the saved posts are downloaded, the saved posts form opens
- Import users
- Minor improvements
- Plugins:
- Added:
- TaskGroup attribute
- IUserMedia interface
- Changed:
- GetUserUrl and GetUserPostUrl functions: String UserName and String UserID changed to IPluginContentProvider User
- Fixed:
- Collections editor: new added collections are still not added to the top of the collections list
- Users search form doesn't remember last size
- Minor bugs
New in Social networks crawler 2022.9.17.0 (Sep 18, 2022)
- Added:
- Added two date filters to filter users (in range, not in range)
- (Request #71) Download data for a specific date range
- The ability to disable site downloading (in the site settings form)
- Updated:
- Plugins
- Fixed:
- (Issue #71) Download data to the date doesn't work for Twitter
- Download data for a specific date range doesn't work for multiple users
- Incorrect 'Feed' sorting algorithm
- Minor bugs
New in Social networks crawler 2022.9.13.0 (Sep 13, 2022)
- Added:
- Video duration to the feed
- Fixed:
- Instagram posts not downloading if there are pinned posts that have already been downloaded.
- Minor bugs:
- Added since version 2022.9.8.0
- Feed (feed of downloaded media files)
- Missing posts tracking and management (still under development)
- Simple scheduler notifications
New in Social networks crawler 2022.9.10.0 (Sep 10, 2022)
- Fixed:
- The memory is still leaking. This time because of the video. Using WMP was not the best choice.
- Missed posts are not saved
- Added since version 2022.9.8.0:
- Feed (feed of downloaded media files)
- Missing posts tracking and management (still under development)
- Simple scheduler notifications
New in Social networks crawler 2022.9.8.1 (Sep 8, 2022)
- Fixed:
- Unexpected memory leak when using the 'Feed' form
New in Social networks crawler 2022.8.22.0 (Aug 22, 2022)
- Added:
- Ability to enable/disable the display of the downloaded image in toast notifications (AutoDownloader)
- Ability to enable/disable the display of the user icon in toast notifications (AutoDownloader)
- Downloading with standalone video downloader has been moved to a separate thread
- Fixed:
- (Issue #35) The file name does not change only by date
- (Issue #62) Internal library error
- AutoDownloader option Show notifications not saved
- Minor bugs
New in Social networks crawler 2022.7.7.0 (Jul 7, 2022)
- Added:
- Scheduler (creating multiple automation tasks)
- Automation startup delay
- Download webp in jpg format
- Development - the ability to create a label control, that provides some information
- Removed:
- (Issue #52) Instagram auto-fill hash from cookies
- Updated:
- Plugins
- Fixed:
- (Issue #59) Stop option not working properly
- In some cases, Twitter image is not downloading
- Minor bugs
New in Social networks crawler 2022.6.10.0 (Jun 10, 2022)
- Fixed:
- (Issue #52) Can't get Instagram user ID
New in Social networks crawler 2022.6.6.0 (Jun 7, 2022)
- Added:
- Ability to pause automation
- Fixed:
- (Issue #53) GIFs from Twitter not downloading
- Not quite correct algorithm for stopping automation
New in Social networks crawler 2022.6.3.0 (Jun 4, 2022)
- Added:
- (Request #44) Automation (downloading data automatically every X minutes)
- (Request #49) Expanded settings for Instagram tagged posts that are downloaded for the first time.
- Fixed:
- Videos hosted on Reddit that are downloaded via m3u8 playlists are missing an audio track.
- (Issue #52) Instagram hash not able to be auto-filled from cookies
New in Social networks crawler 3.0.0.10 (May 23, 2022)
- Added:
- Downloading groups
- Download saved Twitter posts (bookmarks)
- Ability to enable/disable progress form opening at the start of downloading
- Ability to enable/disable Info form opening at the start of downloading
- The ability to disable the opening of forms Info and Progress at the start of downloads if it was once closed
- Focusing the main window when opening Info or Progress forms
- Ability to execute a script/command when closing SCrawler
- Ability to execute a script/command after all downloads are completed
- Minor improvements
- Fixed:
- (Issue #40) Instagram tagged data not downloading (now requires one more parameter x-csrftoken to download tagged data). Please check your Instagram settings.
- In some cases, Instagram Stories cannot be downloaded due to forbidden Windows characters
- Separate Instagram posts were not downloading via the Video Downloader form.
- In some cases, an Imgur video hosted on Reddit won't download
- Gfycat data not downloading from saved Reddit posts
- (Issue #35) In some cases, the date and time are not added to the filename. Special thanks to @memnarch1337
- (Issue #46) Unable to download photos from Twitter in full resolution (4K). Special thanks to @tmpfx00
New in Social networks crawler 3.0.0.9 (May 4, 2022)
- Added:
- Excluded labels
- Ability to disable user grouping
- Ability to show groups of user sites when filtering by labels
- Fixed:
- Removed adding "No Parsed" internal label when not needed
- Redownloading Instagram Stories