Web Contact Scraper Changelog

What's new in Web Contact Scraper 5.9.2.0

Nov 16, 2021
  • NEW: Added support for Malta (yellow.com.mt)
  • FIX: Formatting changed for: Australia (Yellow Pages)
  • FIX: Formatting changed for: Switzerland (Yellow Pages)

New in Web Contact Scraper 5.8.0.0 (May 24, 2021)

  • FIX:
  • Formatting changed for: Australia (Yellow Pages), Italy (Yellow Pages)
  • Formatting changed for: Yelp

New in Web Contact Scraper 5.6.0.0 (Apr 7, 2020)

  • NEWAdded support for Italy (Yellow Pages)
  • NEWImproved privacy by moving licencing to secured servers (HTTPS)
  • FIXFormatting changed for Canada (Yellow Pages)

New in Web Contact Scraper 5.5.0.0 (Dec 6, 2019)

  • Added support for Netherlands (Yellow Pages)
  • Added support for Switzerland (German and Italian Yellow Pages)
  • Adding ability to toggle CAPTCHA
  • Formatting changed for Austria, Canada, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland
  • Formatting changed for Yelp

New in Web Contact Scraper 5.4.0.0 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Internal improvements for faster processing
  • Added CAPTCHA checks for Belgium (Yellow Pages)
  • Formatting changed for Colombia, Germany, South Africa, UK and USA
  • Formatting changed for Yelp

New in Web Contact Scraper 5.3.0.0 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • New:
  • Added support for Canada (Yellow Pages)
  • Added support for Switzerland (French Yellow Pages)
  • Improved support for Spain (Yellow Pages)
  • Added CAPTCHA check features for France, UK and White Pages
  • Fix:
  • Formatting changed for White Pages, Yelp
  • Formatting changed for Australia, Belgium and France

New in Web Contact Scraper 5.2.0.0 (Dec 20, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • Added CAPTCHA check features for Australia
  • Added category fields for: Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Spain
  • FIX:
  • Formatting changes for: Austria, Canada, South Africa and Spain
  • Various other minor bug fixes

New in Web Contact Scraper 5.0.0.0 (Jul 2, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • Added support for Argentina, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Vietnam (YellowPages)
  • Added support for Philippines (PinoyListing)
  • Added support for South Africa (Brabys)
  • Added address co-ordinates for Australia (YellowPages)
  • Added categories for Chile, Switzerland and UAE
  • FIX:
  • Formatting updated for Austria, Cambodia, France, New Zealand and Thailand

New in Web Contact Scraper 4.7.0.0 (Jan 12, 2018)

  • Added support for Singapore (YellowPages)
  • Added in-app licencing upgrade options
  • Formatting updated for Germany, UK (Yell) and Spain

New in Web Contact Scraper 4.6.0.0 (Jun 29, 2017)

  • Added support for China, India and Japan
  • Added categories for Australia, Belgium and Canada
  • URL structure changed for Belgium and Canada
  • Formatting changed for Austria and USA (ThomasNet Suppliers)

New in Web Contact Scraper 4.5.0.0 (Jun 29, 2017)

  • Added support for Yell.com (United Kingdom)
  • Formatting changed for France, Germany, South American Countries and Spain

New in Web Contact Scraper 4.4.0.0 (Jun 29, 2017)

  • Improved application performance for many countries
  • Formatting changed for USA

New in Web Contact Scraper 4.3.0.0 (Mar 1, 2017)

  • New and improved data duplication removal features
  • Formatting changed for Austria, France, Germany, New Zealand and USA
  • URL Formatting changed for Ecuador and Latin America

New in Web Contact Scraper 4.2.0.0 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • Added support for USA (ThomasNet Suppliers)
  • Updated YellowPages USA Master Category List
  • Fixed text typo within the software version update dialog
  • Fixed issue with resuming a past partial search more than once

New in Web Contact Scraper 4.1.0.0 (Nov 17, 2016)

  • Added Category Output for Yellowpages USA
  • Added the export of column header names for each lead
  • Complete in-built category list added for Yellowpages USA
  • Formatting changed for phone numbers for Yelp

New in Web Contact Scraper 4.0.0.0 (Sep 14, 2016)

  • Added support for Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela (Yellow Pages)
  • Improved product licencing support
  • Added software update notifications to the application
  • Added server maintenance messages to the application

New in Web Contact Scraper 3.7.0.0 (Aug 29, 2016)

  • Added support for White Pages (USA)

New in Web Contact Scraper 3.6.0.0 (Aug 9, 2016)

  • Added support for India (Yellow Pages)
  • Added support for Singapore (stclassifieds.sg)
  • Added Review Count and Star Rating for Yelp searches
  • Fixed issue with Yelp Business Names and Addresses

New in Web Contact Scraper 3.5.0.0 (Jul 22, 2016)

  • Added support for Belgium (Golden Pages)
  • Added location searching for Canada (411.ca)
  • Added support for UK (Cylex)
  • Added ability to recall up to 10 Partial Searches
  • Added intelligent optional proxy rotation methods
  • Added intelligent optional user agent randomization
  • FIX: Switzerland search formatting
  • FIX: USA search using proxies with 404 pages
  • FIX: USA search for Address and Phone field changes

New in Web Contact Scraper 3.4.0.0 (May 4, 2016)

  • Added support for Spain
  • Dramatically improved Yelp searching. Added support for ALL Yelp Countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK and USA
  • Improved Yelp search. Now able to get all businesses within any given area
  • Improved Canadian search. Now able to get all businesses within any given area
  • Improved reliability of web scraping component to detect bad pages and skip
  • Added ability to detect WIFI login pages when using public network
  • Improved experience when scraping with proxies
  • Updated default city and region lists for all countries
  • Added settings to save window state for next application use
  • Added warning message when closing the application while search operations are running
  • Fixed Cambodia search
  • Fixed Brunei search
  • Fixed double quotes causing CSV formatting issues within some fields
  • Fixed issue with cancellations not working immediately
  • Fixed minor issue with proxy rotation

New in Web Contact Scraper 3.3 (May 4, 2016)

  • Updated support for USA to reflect minor website changes
  • Updated web component to skip parts of searches where a profile page may not display
  • Fixed issue where partial searches were skipping data
  • Fixed issue where dropping internet connection causes search to pause

New in Web Contact Scraper 3.2 (May 4, 2016)

  • Updated support for USA to reflect minor website changes

New in Web Contact Scraper 3.1 (May 4, 2016)

  • Added the ability to execute partial searches
  • Added the ability to resume searches if a previous search has problems
  • mproved the ability to cancel searches when there is an issue with a page or when using an unreliable proxy server
  • Updated the software licencing server paradigm
  • Fixed an issue with Thailand YP multi-page search
  • Fixed an issue with Cambodia and Laos multi-page search

New in Web Contact Scraper 3.0 (May 4, 2016)

  • Added support for France
  • Updated support for UK to reflect major website changes
  • Updated support for Brunei to reflect major website changes
  • Updated support for Malaysia to reflect major website changes
  • Updated support for Switzerland to reflect address field change.
  • Updated support for Thailand to reflect address field change.
  • Fixed toggling Radio Buttons deleting input text
  • Fixed issue with case sensitive de-duplication

New in Web Contact Scraper 2.8 (May 4, 2016)

  • Added support for Austria
  • Added extra support for removing duplicate contacts
  • Added intelligent log file splitting options for each service
  • Added the ability to rotate through proxy lists
  • Updated formatting for Switzerland

New in Web Contact Scraper 2.7 (May 4, 2016)

  • Updated formatting for Switzerland
  • Updated formatting for Australia

New in Web Contact Scraper 2.6 (May 4, 2016)

  • Added support for Switzerland
  • Improved searching for Australia